Renewables – Aug 10
Harnessing the energy of crowds
Algeria to tap vast sunbelt for solar energy
Wind turbine whining unwarranted
Electricity
Renewables & energy demand –
Aug 8
Net-metering and solar panels
Energy search goes underground in Basel
Making data centers greener
New front for campus activism: energy efficiency
Solar – Aug 3
Too much energy is wasted by converting it
A solar oven saves energy
Thin film’s time in the sun
The seductive message of Who Killed the Electric Car?
I find it very doubtful that we will all be able to sit behind the wheel our electric cars and wait for a green techno-utopia to emerge.
Biofuels – July 31
David Blume’s Alcohol Can Be A Gas book
LS9 promises ‘renewable petroleum’
Poison plant could help to cure the planet
The ethanol effect
Peak oil – July 29
Africa’s power crisis
Buying shotgun shells will put a bigger hole in your wallet
Trinidad & Tobago: Peak oil- expensive food
Building circles of community: “Lone Rangers” cannot survive collapse
ODAC News- 29 July
Solutions & sustainability – July 28
They might look like hobbits’ dwellings…
Radical Finns persevere off BC coast
Everyday living – unplugged
Juicing down for global warming
Renewables – July 27
Robert Rapier: The future is solar
Is IBM going solar?
Biogenic methane?
Dysfunction – July 27
Four times as many children prescribed antidepressants versus a decade ago
Obesity spreads in social circles as trends do
Pollution-cholesterol link to heart disease
Electricity shortage threatens Macau gambling
Globalisation backlash in rich nations
Energy policy – July 26
IEA’s Mandill: Industry can substantially save energy and reduce CO2 emissions
Nigeria: rich in oil, dependent on firewood
Renewable energy projects will devour huge amounts of land, warns researcher
More peak oil – July 26
UK energy security
Canada TOD Round-Up
The world at $100 a barrel – peak oil?
Council on Foreign Relations: Reading oil’s tea leaves
Science: Even oil optimists expect energy demand to outstrip supply
Canada energy round-up
Renewables – July 21
A German city’s long focus on the sun
Solar ovens- even in foggy San Francisco
Photovoltaic for Australia
Arizona shouldn’t waste public money on impractical PV cells
