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AFP Staff KUALA LUMPUR : Higher oil prices are creating major problems for Asian countries which subsidize fuel costs, threatening economic growth if the subsidies are kept in place and consumer outrage if they are not.
More than 200 people attended a one-day conference in Edinburgh on 25 April 2005 to hear five leading experts discuss the implications of the approaching peak and decline in global oil supplies.
Pr. Aleklett interviewed on Undercurrent radio / Chavez: Oil Firms Owing Taxes Must Pay Or Leave / OPEC Head blames high prices on ‘psychological worry’ / Cities, Skyscrapers and Energy / Ethanol boost in Minnesota fuel heads closer to law / Markets At A Glance Peak Oil – Are We There Yet?
Good discussion of the realities OPEC (and we) should be considering rather than the rhetoric that flows so freely from Western leaders and bankers.
Oil and gas depletion workshop in Lisbon May 19-20 / James Kunstler on Art Bell show May 8 / UK plans huge nuclear power program / UK Secretary of Environment opposes nuclear / Who will pay for UK’s nuclear program?
Penn State environmental engineers and a scientist at Ion Power Inc. have developed an electrically assisted process that enables bacteria to coax four times as much hydrogen directly out of biomass than can be generated typically by fermentation alone.
Getting prepared for PO – no immediate blot on the horizon / Building the hydrogen boom in Iceland / Largest solar power station in Portugal / Recovering from lignite / Bush energy proposals critiqued / Green car blogger answers transport and fuel questions / Seattle “Beyond Oil” conference May 14
Declining world oil production, the huge private debts of Britons and Americans, the lack of an exit strategy in Iraq, and irreversible global warming: these are the big challenges of the next four years. For all of them, Britain will be gloriously unprepared.
Radical youth journal espouses PO / “End of Suburbia” scares, inspires N. Calif. audience / Rep. Bartlett sets another precedent / Energy policy is “So stupid, it’s painful” says Molly Ivins / Will wood help fill US energy needs? / Oil discovery in Utah / Oil projects may get less scrutiny / Blair’s next war / Nations seek to ‘save oil in a big hurry’ / JPMorgan Chase pledges sustainability
The portrayal by the IEA of the possibility of an unbroken continuation of future growth in oil supply is, given the clearly recognizable limitations, a false and dangerous signal.
The United States is gearing up to build a new generation of nuclear power plants but will probably have to import many of the component parts for them, the nation’s top nuclear regulator said on Tuesday.
UK: The humble bicycle has won a national survey of people’s favourite inventions conducted by the BBC.
