Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Demand and Economics, or are we mushrooms? / America’s energy future on AirAmerica / ResourceInvestor on oils record week / Denver to host ASPO-USA seminar in November / Oil shale drive has risks for the West (US)
Fusion energy has tantalized scientists for more than half a century as a possible source of limitless, reliable power.
But the technology to create the power of a star on Earth and use it to produce electricity remains at least five decades away, according to U.S. government experts.
In the same way that coal- burning plants sired nuclear power plants, researchers see fusion as the next step in the evolution of electric power plants.
In a world worried about global warming and escalating coal, oil and gas prices, the nuclear industry has seized an opportunity for rebirth.
Nuclear advocates are working to reshape the atom’s image from that of an environmental nightmare and utility bankrupter to an affordable and Earth-friendly energy source – and a hedge against future energy shortages.
Whether the inducements will convince any utility that building a new reactor is financially prudent is uncertain.
Indonesia’s pressures mount / Renewable energy is the key, says Kalam / Indian President seeks ‘Energy Independence’ / Taipei Times: Time to conserve energy / Chavez to Give Latin Countries Priority in Developing Heavy Oil / China Rationing Gasoline And Diesel Fuel / Gasoline stations jammed as fuel crisis deepens / China: Where has all the oil gone? IEA wonders
The Government has made the call to people to appreciate the looming crisis arising out of the unabated price of oil in the world market. According to Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye the country should face this challenge squarely and close ranks.
Germany says auf Wiedersehen to nuclear power, guten Tag to renewables / What We Don’t Eat: Revolting waste / Nigers’ crisis not simply due to swarming insects and drought / Errors found in analysis of data used to discount global warming / The Right to be Cold / Ice is not all that’s going to disappear as the climate warms / Toxic 100 Index lists top corporate air polluters / West Nile disease toll on birds soaring
Truckers stop work over fuel prices / Iran: Oil embargo best response to nuclear boycott / Dangerous curves on Turkey’s energy policy / Venezuela tax agency closes Shell office / Better Ask Santa For Gasoline / China grapples with high oil prices / Oil price rise puts squeeze on UK industry / How expensive oil hurts consumers / Oil Prices, Amid Global Concerns, Surge to a Record / Euro rivals cut off UK gas pipeline / Has India sacrificed at Washington’s altar? / A Superfluous Petroleum Reserve? / June Trade Deficit Surged as Oil Price Resumed Climb / U.S. trade deficit widens on flood of Chinese textiles, oil imports
Depletion and advanced extraction techniques / W.F.Buckley: Looking ahead – oil / Coming closer to the tipping point.. / Tick Tick Tick / Reality behind the oil game / The hike in oil prices: Peak Oil or price cycle? / Will America be ready when oil supply peaks? / Peak Oil Survey
Upon first hearing about Peak Oil, a few years ago, I doubted it. “Just Big Oil propaganda to raise gas prices,” I initially thought. But the more I read about how our natural petroleum supply will reach its mid-point and then dwindle, the more convinced I became. So I got angry — at Big Oil for not informing us and at Americans for over-consuming a limited, non-renewable resource.
Supply of Oil vs the Demand for Oil.
How the small town of Willits (California) plans to beat the coming energy crisis
WASHINGTON, DC—President Bush unveiled an aggressive initiative Monday that would make the U.S. free of petroleum dependence by the year 4920, less than three millennia from now. [satirical]
