New plastic can better convert solar energy
Researchers at the University of Toronto have invented an infrared-sensitive material that’s five times more efficient at turning the sun’s power into electrical energy than current methods.
You did not notice but the third world war started – it is the fight for dominance in oil and trade
This new dangerous third world war is all on trade and energy resources. No country in the world can survive without viable and reliable source of energy without going back to cave ages.
The Neurobiology of Mass Delusion
Because the scientists are challenging fundamental assumptions of our culture, such as the basis for “progress” and the consequences of “economic growth,” many cannot agree with the scientists without losing their identity. This threat to the mental model is simply too great to accept.
ASPO January Newsletter
January’s ASPO bulletin contains some of the month’s most important stories and includes a country assessment of Kazakhstan and details of the next ASPO conference to be held in Portugal.
Most Changes in Earth’s Shape Due to Changes in Climate
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin using NASA satellite data found that significant changes in the Earth’s shape in the past 28 years may be linked to climate events such as the El Nino weather pattern.
The beginning of the end for oil
One of the surprises in the oil world in 2004 was the success of an underground documentary on the perilous state of world energy. [New film coming from a maker of the End of Surburbia.]
Peak oil piquing public’s interest
Peak Oil in three paragraphs.
India signs mega LNG import deal with Iran
India has entered into an agreement with Iran to import 7.5 million tonnes per annum of liquefied natural gas (LNG), starting 2009, over a period of 25 years.
China Plans to Start Filling Strategic Oil Reserve in 2006
China, the world’s second-biggest oil consumer after the U.S., plans to start filling a government- controlled strategic oil reserve next year, a Chinese official said.
The Future of the World … Is Nuts
Industrial agriculture of annual crops may be the most destructive technology on the planet. “Woody agriculture” of perennial nuts may be part of the solution.
China and India raise the stakes
The prospect of Chinese and Indian oil companies buying oil and gas-producing assets in the US and Russia is changing the landscape in which the western oil majors operate.
Energy and Human Evolution
Life on Earth is driven by energy. Autotrophs take it from solar radiation and heterotrophs take it from autotrophs. Energy captured slowly by photosynthesis is stored up, and as denser reservoirs of energy have come into being over the course of Earth’s history, heterotrophs that could use more energy evolved to exploit them, Homo sapiens is such a heterotroph; indeed, the ability to use energy extrasomatically (outside the body) enables human beings to use far more energy than any other heterotroph that has ever evolved.
