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
Energy Policy
Prices & supplies – May 17
UK BERR projects oil at $70 in 2020
Some see oil bubble; others see trouble
Refiners see profits sink as consumption falls
LA Times: Keep stockpiling oil
Peak oil – May 16
Heinberg: Oil and politics
National Geographic: World oil demand surging as supplies approach limits
19th century whaling as a model for oil depletion
More geological analysis of potential Saudi depletion
Homer-Dixon on PO and climate
Climate – May 15
Huge study documents changes from climate warming
A climate change industrial policy (concerns of the military)
Water-cooled supercomputer to study climate
Are Myanmar’s storm victims suffering needlessly?
United States – May 14
Rachman (FT): ‘The pursuit of oil is fundamental to US foreign policy.’
McCain: Clean energy a ‘national security issue’
Democratic candidates play up ‘clean coal’
Review of Apollo’s Fire on energy policy
Climate – May 13
World CO2 levels at record high : NOAA
Japan scientists warn Arctic ice melting fast
World may be heating quickly: CSIRO scientist
McCain rips Bush record on warming
New index tracking consumer action on climate
Supplies & prices – May 13
Hints of a shift at OPEC about a rise in output
Bush prepares to press Saudis on oil
European natural gas security
Nanotechnologies could improve oil recovery
The post-oil novel: a celebration!
The post-oil novel began as a little-known aberration within the speculative fiction genre. But it’s now hitting bestseller lists, generating comment in major papers, and garnering increasing acceptance from the mainstream of speculative fiction. Frank Kaminski takes a spirited, authoritative look at this blossoming subgenre
Climate – May 12
Bill McKibben: Civilization’s last chance
Danish PM links energy security and climate
David Attenborough: ‘Wasting energy is an appalling thing’
Peak oil: “It’s the flows, stupid!”
Because they don’t understand peak oil, many reporters keep getting the story wrong. Because they don’t understand peak oil, some in the U.S. Congress and Senate now threaten to sue OPEC. Because they don’t understand peak oil, business journals keep whining that producer nations don’t practice rational economics.
Biofuels – May 10
Bio-debatable: Food vs. fuel (good graphic)
Go easy on biofuels until more clarity – World Bank
Ralph Nader: Fueling food shortages
United States – May 10
Robert Baer: Playing the Iraq oil card
$200 scheduled for 1/20/09 – what US can do
Liberal think tank: Up, up, and away?
The false lure of lower gas prices
Gas prices hit hard – USA Today special report
