Renewable Energy Markets (US)
Analysis of how US customers buy into biomass energy technologies, examples of renewable power suppliers, how Renewable Energy Certificates work, and where providers are now operating.
Peak Oil – Peak Technology
As the energy crisis intensifies, a myriad of technical solutions are being proposed. Governments, corporations and scientists are not offering new creative solutions, not because they are failing to make strong efforts, but because energy itself is a very mature industry.
War and cold have depleted Armenia’s only natural resource: trees
Its isolation and lack of hydrocarbon reserves has lead to some innovative ideas about alternative energy sources, in contrast to its two Caucasus neighbors, Georgia and Azerbaijan, whose policies have been dominated by a geopolitical tug-of-war for pipelines, electricity cables and global alliances.
Energy Prices Not Spurring Conservation
While soaring oil prices in the 1970s prompted major advances in the nation’s energy efficiency, this year’s surge in fuel costs has so far not sparked a new wave of conservation.
War on Plastic: Rejecting the toxic plague
Plastic as toxic trash is barely an issue with health advocates, environmentalists, and even those of us looking toward the post-petroleum world. Instead, “recycling” and future “bioplastics” distract people from keeping plastic out of their lives.
Peak Oil Economics & Money – What Underwrites our Dollar?
How will the impact of Peak Oil affect the market for precious metals and fiat monetary systems?
Global Relocalization — A Call to Action
The imminent peaking of global oil production and the fact that natural gas production has already peaked in North America could be the catalyst for positive transformation of industrial society. It could also be a recipe for disaster.
Horrific on the harbor
A new study states that a terrorist attack on an LNG tanker would cause horrific fires, causing major injuries and significant damage to buildings a third of a mile away and second-degree burns on people more than a mile away.
Venezuela’s Chavez arrives in China with eye on oil deals
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Beijing for an official visit that aims to bolster his country’s oil deals with the Asian giant, state media and officials said.
Gabon: Calls for Fair Division of a Diminishing Pie
An oil rich nation, where a minority is accused of benefiting disproportionately from mineral wealth…Clashes between police and the inhabitants of oil-producing areas that result in deaths…A scene from Nigeria? No – Ndolou, in south-western Gabon.
Putin hints at China alliance for Yukos oil
Gazprom, Russia’s state-controlled gas monopoly, could team up with the China National Petroleum Corporation to develop the Yukos oil company’s main production asset, sold to a mystery bidder on Sunday.
One of the last easy-motoring Christmases
Time Magazine’s Person of the Year had a famous father who famously remarked a decade ago that “the American way of life is not negotiable.” To keep the suburban expansion going indefinitely we will need to continue using one-quarter of the world’s oil every day.
