Chinese analysis of global energy crisis and security
Expert opinion in China seems to resemble that of Western energy experts.
Energy Policy
Other energy – Feb 16
Edison, BP plan $1 billion California hydrogen power plant /
China’s fast breeders /
Journalists: How energy-positive is ethanol, really? /
Zubrin: An energy revolution (alcohol) /
Hybrid perks may become problems /
Senators oppose Bush cuts to coal R&D /
Viridian linkfest
Swedish commission aims to end oil dependence by 2020
The Swedish Commission on Oil Independence
is a broad-based expert council that will provide the Prime Minister and the Government with facts and advice in the work to significantly reduce Sweden’s dependence on oil and other fossil raw materials by 2020.
Plug pulled on renewable energy gurus
31 workers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory were dismissed seven days after President Bush read the words “addicted to oil” off the teleprompter and announced yet another “Advanced Energy Initiative.”
Peak oil & energy policy – Feb 13
Deffeyes says we passed peak in December 2005 /
Jeremy Leggett’s “Empty Tank” (interview) /
New Zealand’s oil addiction /
Ireland’s energy policy: We’re still in the dark /
Oil spike lubricates Japan’s economy /
BBC puts Indian energy in spotlight
Energy – Feb 12
No more Mr. Tough Guy (Cheney & energy policy) /
G8 Moscow talks focus on energy /
Biomass fuels from sustainable landuse: a permaculture perspective /
Ethanol, boon to farms, won’t cure oil addiction /
Lovins: Who needs more coal?
The State of the State (of energy)
A survey of what U.S. governors said about energy in their State of the State addresses. None of the governors grasped the concept that technology does not equal energy. None addressed the core issue of continued growth in a finite system.
Hirsch Report back on DOE website
Several weeks ago the risk management study into Peak Oil known commonly as the Hirsch Report disappeared from the website of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. After enquiries by Energy Bulletin editors the report has been returned to the website…
Peak oil – Feb 10
Former White House official admits SOTU energy comments were about peak oil /
Macleans: When the oil runs out /
Peak oil on Irish radio /
Pat Murphy on peak oil and Cuba /
BBC coverage on “Fuelling the future”
Sweden plans to be world’s first oil-free economy
Sweden is to take the biggest energy step of any advanced western economy by trying to wean itself off oil completely within 15 years – without building a new generation of nuclear power stations.
State of the Union on energy – Feb 3
Administration backs off vow to reduce Mideast oil imports /
Much talk, mostly low key, about energy independence /
Bush hits the road to take a green message to his nation of oil addicts /
US ex-energy chief Richardson cool to Bush ideas /
US energy secy outlines plan /
“He’s done more to raise the exposure of energy in one hour than all the peak blogs” /
Bush’s energy plan: ambitious enough?
President’s State of the Union energy initiatives are “a start”
Without a national commitment with the breadth of the Apollo program to land a man on the moon and the intensity of the Manhattan Project to build the atom bomb, there’s no way we will achieve the President’s goal.
