Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
How Chernobyl affected future of nuclear power / Experts doubt oil shale answer to energy crisis /
Turning dirty coal into clean energy / Skepticism about green fuel /
Exxon CEO: Use less of our stuff / MIT technologies could double accessible world oil / Learn to live with coal
Sweden goes for green as Nordics mull energy future /
Coal-to-diesel breakthrough could cut oil imports /
Energy news from Australia /
Gulf production: plenty of repairs still to go /
Qatar to boost oil output, plans investment abroad
More uranium: when and from where? /
Going nuclear: a green makes the case /
Anything into oil (turkey guts, junked car parts, even raw sewage…true!) /
Growing demand for non-food crops /
UK coal producer pushes for price increases of 40% /
Russia to control Armenia’s gas /
Transmaterial, transtudio and seeing the big picture – links
North America – the energy picture II (govt study) /
Coal converts /
Clinton calls biofuels key to creating jobs /
Europe urged to curb demand for oil and gas /
It’s still about energy (oil to go up) /
Ready for $262 a barrel oil? (Soros) /
Gas prices climb as summer driving season nears
Global warming threatens extinctions /
Lyin’ tamer (“Ask Umbra” on global warming) /
Climate change and the media, reality and the future /
Coal plants’ renaissance pits energy vs. pollution /
Schwarzenegger speech today could put California in forefront of climate change efforts
As the world moves ever closer to the time when vital, finite energy resources begin to decline, we need to know not how much oil, natural gas, coal or uranium is left; rather, we need to know how much usable energy is left in these resources.
Peak Sugar! /
Peabody Energy, largest coal company, thinks ‘coal is the future’ /
Deffeyes visits Alaska /
Peak opportunity! Earth liberation and the oil endgame
Suppose that availabilty of oil is going to decline to levels far below those of today. The question is, so what? The US has enough easily accessible coal to supply hundreds of years of consumption at current rates, and the same is true of the rest of the world.
Cracking oil is not a funny business /
Clean-coal effort off to slow start /
UK wind power ‘ahead of predictions’ /
On the ethanol bandwagon: big names and big risks
Sen. Lugar: Energy is the albatross of U.S. national security /
Iranian oil exchange unlikely to begin till at least midyear /
Pentagon looks to cut oil use and costs /
Australia: CSIRO warns of local oil shortfall /
Proposed Mackenzie pipeline spurs coal gasification mega-plan /
Trading the Hummer for a Honda
Climate science 2005: major new discoveries /
Louisiana faces an exodus from the coast /
Carbon dioxide hydrates could secure sub-sea sequestration /
The false promise of ‘clean coal’ /
Warmer oceans blamed for intense hurricanes /
Storm intensity tied to warming of sea surfaces /
Water forum warns of shortages
Lovins: Winning the oil endgame (talk) /
The real cost of electricity /
Gov. Schweitzer’s coal-to-fuels program: What you didn’t hear on ‘60 Minutes’ /
Life in a grass house (the viability of switchgrass) /
Kuwaiti MP demands truth on Kuwaiti oil
