IS THERE HOPE FOR HYDROGEN?
Book review of THE HYPE ABOUT HYDROGEN: Fact and Fiction in the Race To Save the Climate, by Joseph J. Romm. (Strong focus in the review on policy.)
Energy transition and final energy crisis
The current ‘oil price crisis’ in reality reflects an emerging and permanent supply crisis for oil and gas (which currently provide about 65% of world commercial energy).
Oil Wars: Transforming the American Military into a Global Oil-Protection Service
This, then, is the future of U.S. military involvement abroad. While anti-terrorism and traditional national security rhetoric will be employed to explain risky deployments abroad, a growing number of American soldiers and sailors will be committed to the protection of overseas oil fields, pipeline, refineries, and tanker routes.
Pouring oil on troubled economists
My sense of last weekend’s G7 meetings is that there is an atmosphere of suppressed panic about the oil price, and about the danger of a serious crisis.
Ireland: Wind energy farm plan bites the dust
Plans by a North Cork based company, D. P. Energy Ltd., to develop a wind energy farm on the picturesque mountainside have been given the thumbs down by An Bord Pleanála, and the communities who fought a vigorous campaign against the project now believe it has finally been consigned to the pages of history.
Top oil groups fail to recoup exploration costs
The report shows the commercial value of oil and gas discovered over the past three years by the 10 largest listed energy groups is running well below the amount they have spent on exploration.
Turning coal waste into light
In a distressed region of Pennsylvania, Reliant Energy is turning to poisonous piles leftover from decades of mining and using it to power a new plant
Coal crunch: Industry in desperate need of miners
Competing companies are raiding each other for experienced help, renting ad space, billboards, even banner-towing planes at beach resorts with generous offers of pay and benefits in what is turning out to be one very hot sector of the job market.
Venezuela plans to ride oil to economic growth
Venezuela aims to ramp up oil production to an average 3.6 million barrels per day in 2005 to generate 5 percent economic growth and build on this year’s oil-driven recovery, according to the government’s draft budget for next year.
NZ: $1 billion gasfield ‘all on’
It’s “all on” for the $1 billion development of Taranaki’s Pohokura gas discovery. Pohokura will be New Zealand’s most significant petroleum development since the now-declining Maui field came into production in 1979.
Lebanon: Electricity crisis gets short-term fix but problem not resolved
Many Lebanese citizens went to slept in darkness on Wednesday and woke up to no power Thursday despite Energy and Water Minister Ayoub Humayed saying that the severe power rationing system will be reduced after oil tankers provided power plants here with fuel on Wednesday.
Ireland – Wood Energy tipped for carbon & price benefits
“Wood energy can provide certainty of supply and certainty in price. This is an important message for commercial and industrial customers who are currently exposed to the fluctuations in the world energy markets.
