The Good Oil
Is the world running out of oil, and if so what does it mean? Meet Kenneth S. Deffeyes, author of Hubbert’s Peak, and Peter R. Odell, author of Why Carbon Fuels Will Dominate the 21st Century’s Global Energy Economy.
Coal
China replacing the United States as the worlds leading consumer
Although the United States has long consumed the lion’s share of the world’s resources, this situation is changing fast as the Chinese economy surges ahead, overtaking the United States in the consumption of one resource after another.
Taylor: Energy can fuel a future of promise
There is no reason why Hopi cannot generate all of its energy needs while producing power for off-reservation consumer markets. Indeed, that is our goal for the coming decade; to create an energy-based economy that will provide future generations of Hopi with jobs and opportunity.
Time to prepare for the coming peak in world oil production
I recently saw the movie “The End of Suburbia”…The movie and the organization are about looking to the future to see what we as a civilization will do when oil prices start to increase substantially.
New coal plants bury ‘Kyoto’
New greenhouse-gas emissions from China, India, and the US will swamp cuts from the Kyoto treaty.
For better or worse, China is stuck on coal
The fate of the sleepy mining town of Sandaoling — and of the entire country and its booming economy — is tied to coal.
Coal Position
Bush admin isn’t putting money where its mouth is on “clean coal”
Australia: Coal puts heat on ports
Queensland’s coal producers are struggling to get the product to the coast and onto the boats because of the state’s inadequate port facilities.
The state should be taking full advantage of a tripling in world coal prices over the past 18 months but basic transport is holding up profits.
Tennessee: Low-Sulfur Coal Price Doubles, following Gas & Oil
The Tennessee Valley Authority will pay nearly twice as much as it
did five years ago to stoke some of its power plants with low-sulfur
coal.
US companies rediscover coal-fired power plants
Sure, coal sounds dirty and dated, the kind of energy source that went out of fashion with big Buicks and bell-bottom jeans. But a coal project here in northern Nevada is one of more than 100 coal-fueled plants that are vying for approval around the country, the largest increase in such projects since the 1970s.
Coal-bed methane being created by microbes, researchers say
Microbes are continually converting hydrocarbon deposits in the Powder River Basin to natural gas, and if managed properly, can help turn coal-bed methane into a renewable energy source, researchers said Tuesday.
‘Coal increasingly substitutes for oil in US, China, India’
With oil prices skyrocketing, coal production is increasing in the countries like US, China and India despite environmental hazards, a media report claimed.
