Drought brings Cuba to its knees
Unnoticed by the world, the longest dry period for decades has brought much of Cuba to its knees. Could this be the crisis that finally destroys Fidel’s revolution?
Stephen Gibbs
Getting warm in the search for future energy supply
Once production peaks then it can’t meet demand and then prices will rise and it will be the equivalent of the oil shock in the 1970s. That will be a huge boost to renewables.
Stark choices face us on energy use
Human nature is such that we tend to wait for a crisis to happen before we react. However, as the current series of articles on the looming energy crisis highlight, we do so at our peril.
Argentine homes save on gas, electricity to meet energy crisis.
The Argentine government on Friday said that in the first six months of the year a plan to reduce household energy consumption yielded savings of 8 percent on domestic gas and 3 percent on electricity, which were used to supply growing industrial demand.
New Book: Powerdown by Richard Heinberg
Powerdown is a brilliant analysis of the options available to a civilization facing resource depletion, biosphere collapse, and financial insolvency.
Trouble in the World’s Largest Oil Field-Ghawar
The data I am being told by engineers who have worked on Ghawar suggests that this decade will see it’s peak. As Ghawar goes, so goes the world.
US to halt nuclear fusion project
Amidst a prolonged stalemate over where to build the world’s largest nuclear fusion facility, the US is halting work on a homegrown fusion project. The decision caused concern among researchers at a fusion meeting earlier this week.
Shifting the War to Iran
However crazy a war with Iran may seem at this juncture, (with America’s military stretched to the brink) the plans for such a war are clearly materializing before our eyes.
Globe’s growing thirst poses challenge to big oil
In best-case scenarios, like Exxon Mobil, production is relatively flat. Many more energy companies are pumping less oil than they were a year ago.
China’s dependence on coal for energy causing pollution at home and abroad
China is relying on coal-fired power plants to meet severe electricity shortages, but such heavy polluters are damaging the environment and harming its people and its neighbours.
Nigeria’s oil crisis
Nigeria’s oil industry – Africa’s largest and the fifth-biggest source of US oil imports – is concerned for its future after a yearlong spree of bloodletting that has killed more than 1 000 people in the Niger Delta.
UK Joins Methane to Markets Partnership
The UK today joined a US-led partnership that seeks to cut global methane gas emissions and to promote methane recovery and use as a clean energy source.
