Widescale Biodiesel Production from Algae
Article discusses the energy efficiency, large scale production feasibility and cost of biodiesel production from algae, draws favourable comparisions with Hydrogen production and infrastructure costs.
Michael Briggs
Abiotic Oil: Science or Politics?
For the past century or so, the biological origin of oil seemed to be the accepted norm. However, there remained a small group of critics who pushed the idea that, instead, oil is generated from inorganic matter within the earth’s mantle. Ugo Bardi concludes that the theory is false, or at best irrelevant.
Company’s prediction of a natural-gas crisis is challenged by other energy experts
San Diego-based Sempra Energy has a chilling view of the nation’s prospects for producing natural gas, the fuel used to heat a majority of U.S. homes and increasingly used to generate electricity.
Gas prices soar as oil production nears peak
The recent oil price surge underscores the economic importance of oil and the reality that oil supplies are starting to dwindle. This is an issue that no longer can be ignored.
Uranium industry enjoys rebound as prices nearly triple
Uraniam prices are nearly triple what they were four years ago, and Cameco Corp., a Canadian company that owns the last two active uranium mines in the United States, is stepping up exploration and production.
China Looks to Latin America for Potential Oil Supplies
China’s search for oil to power its fast-growing economy has led it to various parts of the world where there are large oil reserves.
Australia: PM called talks to derail renewable energy
The Federal Government and fossil-fuel industry executives discussed ways to stifle growing investment in renewable energy projects at a secret meeting earlier this year.
Malaysia and Indonesia may head towards dispute over oil claims
Malaysia and Indonesia appear headed towards a territorial dispute, with their national oil companies laying claim to potentially rich offshore oil-and-gas blocks off Borneo island.
Malaysia has said it was ready to contest any overlapping claim to the area. Petronas, Malaysia’s national oil company, said that it “was in advance stages of awarding the ultra-deepwater blocks… which are within the Malaysian territorial boundary”.
Oil hits a perfect storm
The forces driving the price of oil to $50.12 (U.S.) a barrel may wax and wane. Still, the quagmire that the industry is sinking into won’t blow over any time soon.
Is the age of oil coming to an end?
With crude at US$50 a barrel and producers operating near maximum output, fears are widespread that the world is on the cusp of a major oil shock.
What next in Iraq? Follow the oil
A troubled Washington faces urgent choices in Iraq. With exit no option, and victory nowhere in sight, the commandment of a second Bush administration may be: follow the oil.
Oh, no! Has the world reached ‘peak oil’?
$50 or $60 a barrel oil is still affordable by western standards, but surely debilitating for growing economies What if it hits $80, or even $100 by estimates of pessimists?
