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UK buys into next generation of nuclear power /
New Internationalist issue on nuclear power /
Ethanol is the future for public transport /
The cultural roots of UK’s energy gap /
Green fuel plan ‘will destroy rainforests’ /
Will Canadian oil sands save the USA? /
Cleaning up coal: new, cleaner technologies /
Oil shale shows promise; towns have seen it before
Soaring energy costs have Md. aluminum plant on the brink /
China: A miracle and a menace /
Oil and grilling don’t mix in Washington /
House shelves Alaska drilling in budget fight /
The coal war: fighting back in Texas /
‘Streamlining’ King Coal’s beheading of Appalachia /
Uzbekistan ‘facing oil crisis’ /
Recycling the petrodollars
Summary of patently pro-coal report that makes strong arguments as to why coal is here to stay and what it could look like in years to come.
Chief UK scientist backs nuclear power revival /
Feuding over the origins of fossil fuels /
Bio-fuel hopes for palm oil are overstated /
Outgoing German environment minister: consign atomic energy to the past /
Expert lambastes Canada’s massive oil sands play /
Hybrid grass may prove to be valuable fuel source /
Governor Schweitzer, I have a few questions for you about coal /
Why oil intensity changed in the US economy
Energy, ethanol and greenhouse / Brazil’s gas consumption to triple by 2010 / Nothing green about Blair’s nuclear dream / Wood stoves back in vogue ahead of costly winter / Benefits of coal touted at Montana energy conference / India’s fast breeder nuclear reactor is 20 years old / A 30 000 MW Wind Farm in Canada?
Nuclear power was dead in the water – wildly expensive, deeply unpopular and a nightmare to clean up. But now the government is talking about a new generation of reactors. Can it really be the green answer to our energy needs?
The Illusive Bonanza: Oil Shale in Colorado / Green Fuel Revolution a Challenge for Grain Sector / Cleaner coal? IGCC nice, but.. / Clean coal isn’t climate-friendly yet / Nuclear power quietly confident in energy debate / Atlantic coal plant dirtiest, green group says
Energy experts like to call coal a bridge fuel leading to a future society based on hydrogen and other renewable energy sources.
The granddaddy of fossil fuels that has fouled the air, poisoned the waters — and created the industrial revolution — will also be the fuel of the digital age. Coal, called an antique fuel by some environmentalists, still produces more than half the electricity in the nation.
For practically every minute of my life, I’ve been involved in coal. I grew up in a part of Western Kentucky that was then the biggest coal producing area in the country. When I was small, my home town held a “Strawberry Festival,” because the country produced a good part of the nation’s strawberries. By the time I was a teenager, the festival was renamed as the “Coal Festival.” Those strawberry fields were long gone.
Eric Sprott could have told you this was coming. Canada’s top fund manager was buying energy stocks long before oil — and other commodities — became the hottest investing trend since the technology bubble. He is wildly bullish about energy. Two words explain why: Hubbert’s Peak.
China’s breakneck economic growth is causing a dangerous shortage of its most important energy source coal, with potential consequences for the entire world, state media warned.
