Renewables & efficiency – Aug 18
-Scientists explore how the humble leaf could power the planet
-Raising Wind Turbine Output With Longer Blades
-How a wind farm could emit more carbon than a coal power station
Industry
Solar You Can Count On: Hybrid Solar/Natural Gas Plants Provide Power When Needed
Although the SW sunshine resource is enormous and largely untapped, critics of solar energy routinely note the sun does not shine all the time. The implication is that power is needed all the time, and since the sun is not always available, solar opponents say it would be foolish to invest in generating electricity from the sun.
Peak oil, prices, and supplies – Aug 17
-World Oil Exports; US Oil Imports; and a Few Thoughts on Canada
-The International Energy Agency Shills For OPEC, The Oil Speculators and the Peak Oil Pranksters
-Lessons learned from 2008
Peak oil, prices, and supplies – Aug 13
-Tradable Energy Quotas (TEQs): A Policy Framework for Peak Oil and Climate Change
-Oil May Fall Below $10 in Next Decade, Prechter Says (Update1)
-Mexico Oil Production to Fall 4.9%, Drop Through 2012 (Update3)
Nuclear – Aug 12
-U.S. needs 45 more nuclear reactors by 2030: study
-Sanctions Unlikely to Stop Iran’s Nuclear Quest
-Not Recycling, and Proud of It
Renewables & efficiency – Aug 7
-India sets out ambitious solar power plan to be paid for by rich nations
-Asian giants put the West’s targets for solar energy in the shade
-Boom in hydropower pits fish against climate
-Are wind farms a health risk? US scientist identifies ‘wind turbine syndrome’
Peak oil, prices, and supplies – Aug 6
Shell takes to high seas to escape oil gloom
OPEC unlikely to cut oil output in Sept – delegates
The Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline
Peak oil review – Aug 3
A weekly review including:
– Production and prices
– Priorities
– Mexico
– Briefs
Commentary: Global Energy Drivers in a “Black Swan World”
Last year the global credit crunch and its knock-on effects precipitated the sharpest oil and gas price declines in over two decades. Despite the recent $100+/ Bbl price implosion and subsequent partial recovery, we have now entered an historic inflection point—call it “practical peak oil”—in the global balance of conventional energy supplies…
