Moon gas may solve Earth’s energy crisis
The moon contains 10 times more energy in the form of helium-3 than all the fossil fuels on the earth, but the fusion reactor technology may be decades away.
Living Within Limits
The existence of inevitable limits to resource consumption and planet-systems resilience is now being challenged, and defended, in mainstream media.
Clarifying the Hubbert model
A useful clarification of the strengths and limitations of Hubberts model of oil depletion, with concise references to flaws of ‘cornucopian’ arguments.
Coloradans Vote to Embrace Alternative Sources of Energy
Colorado utilities will have to sell a lot
more electricity from wind power in years to come under a statewide
ballot initiative approved by voters on Nov. 2, and if they want
some pointers they might talk to Adam T. Kremers, a 19-year-old
sophomore at Colorado State University here. He has been there and
done that.
Big three to fight `Asian premium’ on Saudi oil sales
China, Japan and South Korea are mounting a new combined challenge to the “Asian premium”, long a scourge of regional oil-importing economies.
OPEC will stick with dollar, president says
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries would not adopt the euro to replace the US dollar as the currency for oil sales, the body’s president, Purnomo Yusgiantoro, said yesterday.
Prices and Production over a complete Hubbert Cycle: the Case of the American Whale Fisheries in 19th Century
Grasping the reality of Hubberts peak is difficult for many, possibly because crude oil may be the first nonrenewable resource to pass through such a peak. But a resource does not need to be a nonrenewable to show a Hubbert curve. A biological resource which is exploited much faster than it is replaced may also follow a bell-curve, and the whaling industry of the 19th Century a good example.
Canadian natural gas reserves continue to fall despite record drilling activity
Canada’s known natural gas reserves continue to decline even though a record number of wells were drilled in 2003, the energy industry announced Thursday.
Russia will write off 90 pct of Iraq debt -Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Moscow had committed itself to writing off 90 percent of Iraq’s debts, more than the 80 percent of forgiveness agreed by the Paris Club of sovereign debtors.
India hardens its stance on Iran pipeline
Aware of Iran’s dependence on India to market its gas, New Delhi is dragging its feet even as Tehran pumped up the gas on the proposed Iran-India pipeline traversing through Pakistan.
India, Iran fail to agree on LNG deal
India and Iran have failed to seal a LNG-for-oil field deal with Tehran offering a “very high” price for the five million tonnes LNG it plans to sell to New Delhi.
Russia Weighs Shifting Its Holdings to Euros
The euro rose to another record high against the dollar today after the Russian central bank said it might increase its euro holdings in an effort to insulate itself against further weakness in the American currency.
