Cuba: No throwaway society here
If you were an object – a steering wheel for example or a cafeteria tray – where would you want to live? Me, I’d choose Cuba.
Fuelish choices – Expanding hybrid choices can slow slide to oil’s end
In October, International Truck & Engine Corp. announced plans to help build diesel-electric hybrid industrial trucks that consume 40 percent to 60 percent less fuel and release fewer toxic emissions. The upward movement of oil prices at the pump can be explained by a theory called Hubbert’s Peak.
Scientists cite breakthrough in producing pure hydrogen
Researchers at a government nuclear laboratory and a ceramics company in Salt Lake City say they have found a way to produce pure hydrogen with far less energy than other methods, raising the possibility of using nuclear power to indirectly wean the transportation system from its dependence on oil.
Oil makes U.S. raise military stakes in Colombia
The Iraq war may have knocked Colombia off the front page, but Mideast chaos has made South America’s energy resources more strategic to the United States….Meanwhile, the oil industry has charted a new thrust into the Amazon regions of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia – countries all now receiving U.S. military aid…
Energy Supply and Pricing for a Sustainable Future
The reality is, that for all the paper wealth being generated by the so-called knowledge-based economy, Canada’s entire post-industrial economy still floats on an ‘old economy’ pool of oil and gas.
All For Oil
The momentous challenge facing the Bush Administration and America is the very real danger to the continuing supply of America’s very lifeblood: oil.
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.
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.
