Hungry for hemp
The United States Drug Enforcement Administration recently abandoned, without comment, its three-year effort to ban commercial foods made from or containing nonpsychoactive industrial hemp seed and hemp oil.
Ed Murietta
Worldwide capacity of solar thermal energy greatly underestimated
The International Energy Agency’s Solar Heating and Cooling Programme and major solar thermal trade associations have published new statistics on the use of solar thermal energy. The new data – expressed for the first time in GWth, rather than in square meters of installed collector area – shows the global installed capacity to be 70 GWth (70.000 MWth).
Sustainable Energy From Vegetable Oil
An excellent practical guide to the techniques of using vegetable oil as a transportation fuel which acknowledges also some of this approach’s large scale limitations.
World On Brink Of Ruin
Stephen Roach, the chief economist for Morgan Stanley & Co., one of the most powerful investment banks and one of the 50 largest companies in the world, says Greenspan has “driven the world to the economic brink.”
Project Cooking Up Stoves For The Poor
The World Food Program has commissioned Aprovecho to build fuel-efficient, low-polluting cooking stoves fashioned from the very tin cans in which food aid is delivered.
Oil find opens door to a less dependent Cuba
On Christmas Day, Cuban President Fidel Castro in the Gulf of Mexico in an area controlled by Cuba. Castro disclosed that the Canadian companies had discovered estimated reserves of 100 million barrels.
The End of Oil?
Ultimately, says Deffeyes, we may just have to resign ourselves to relying more on coal, wind, and nuclear fission for electricity and switching to high-efficiency diesel and hybrid automobiles in order to ration our remaining oil reserves for as long as possible. Abundant energy from fossil fuels was a one-time gift, Deffeyes concludes, that lifted humanity up from subsistence agriculture and has led to a future based on renewable resources
Prophets of doom: the coming oil crisis
The world economy has gotten fairly comfortable with oil at $45 a barrel. But how will it react to paying $100 a barrel three years from now? Or $150 in five years?
US: New Natural Gas Policy Sought
Seventeen organizations–chemical companies as well as environmental and conservation groups–fired off a letter to Congress last week urging a new energy policy to solve the nation’s natural gas crisis.
Hundreds of protesters clash with police in Nepal
Hundreds of demonstrators stoned government vehicles, blocked traffic and battled riot police in the Nepalese capital Tuesday to protest the increase in fuel prices by the government.
New plastic can better convert solar energy
Researchers at the University of Toronto have invented an infrared-sensitive material that’s five times more efficient at turning the sun’s power into electrical energy than current methods.
You did not notice but the third world war started – it is the fight for dominance in oil and trade
This new dangerous third world war is all on trade and energy resources. No country in the world can survive without viable and reliable source of energy without going back to cave ages.
