United Kingdom – May 29
Gordon Brown urges increased oil supply
Strahan: Brown doesn’t get the oil crisis
UK cuts taxes on oil fields, opens areas to development
National Grid blamed for UK power cuts
Fuel protest: lorry drivers flex their muscles
Electricity
Renewables – May 26
UK: Labour plans green revolution to slash energy prices and win back lost voters
Will the rate-of-conversion problem derail alternative energy?
Renewables & clean tech – May 23
Mike Splinter: renewable energy is the solution
Green cement
Microgen in the UK
Renewables – May 22
House passes massive tax extensions for renewable energy
Bartlett: Congressional delays hobble renewable energy
Environment is secondary to private profits (renewables vs sequestration)
Inter-connected global grid for green energy,
Food crisis – May 21
Brazil threatens to nationalize fertilizer mines
South America’s industrial-ag powerhouse eyes rainforest potash deposits
Forget Saudi peak oil – worry about Saudi peak grain
IMF “cure” for food crisis also a cause
Hunger prompting desperate acts
Renewables – May 20
Stockholm: Separating food waste is profitable
Burning wood: issues for the future
Quietly, wind farms spread footprint in U.S
Dr. Harry Zervos: Photovoltaics beyond conventional silicon
Coal – May 19
Coal industry turns up heat in ad campaign
The world has enough coal reserves for 100 years: true or false?
Why investors worship Old King Coal
Rudd’s solar misstep and Australian energy policy
Sun sets on Rudd’s climate change credibility
Rebate rules ‘disaster’ for solar power industry
Solar means-test is necessary: Swan
Australia’s need for renewable energy
Renewables & cleantech – May 19
Australia’s first underwater wave farm
Bartlett’s renewable energy bill
Germany debates subsidies for solar industry
Market for LEDs for illumination could be big
Prices – May 16
Chavez says U.S. attack would cause $500 oil
Don’t hope for prices to drop, says API economist
Libertarian: Why oil prices will fall again
Who really controls the oil market? Not Saudis or OPEC, says Arab News
Naimi blames oil price on financial turmoil
Shell: Crude shortfalls will boost renewables
California steaming – May 16
L.A. prepares massive water-conservation plan
Los Angeles eyes sewage as a source of water
S. California faces summer power challenge
Renewables – May 15
Biofuels majority of non-OPEC oil growth
New source for biofuels discovered- cyanobacteria
World’s largest offshore wind farm in the works
Wave/geothermal – energy return on investment (EROI)
