Peak Oil & Supplies – August 28
Energy price prediction `more difficult,’ EIA’s Caruso says
Bioplastic – better living through green chemistry?
Could $100 oil turn dumps into plastic mines?brScrapping fuel subsidies can help climate: U.N. study
Renewable Energy
United States & Canada – August 27
Statistical fluke prevents nuclear incident in Ohio
Debbie Cook: Abandon 19th century fuels and move toward 21st century reponses
Drilling boom revives hopes for natural gas
Schumer: “The drilling issue has peaked”
Big Coal’s Big-Time Lobby
Renewables – Aug 25
New rays of hope for solar power’s future
Will US solar businesses weather the coming storm?
Gail the Actuary: Biofuel conference call including a new biodiesel from algae
United States – Aug 24
Barack Obama selects Biden as his running mate (Biden’s energy positions)
Energy politics proving difficult to master
‘A whole new world’: oil and Alaska
Xcel takes unusual step to shut down coal power plants
Pickens’ plan and California’s Proposition 10
Californians wary of costs of going green: survey
Renewables – August 22
The Dean of Dung is Back – and Full of Gas!
Bloomberg offers windmill power plan
New York Mayor sees conservation as main path to energy savings
Golden image of corn-based ethanol shows some erosion
United States – August 21
Oil’s Washington juggernaut
Pump primed for fall fight on energy
Is T. Boone Pickens right?
There will be Boone
United Kingdom – August 20
House of Lords suggests lifting VAT from cost of repairing electrical goods
Plan for anaerobic digesters in every town to recycle leftovers
Revealed: the massive scale of UK’s water consumption
Renewables & EVs – August 19
Waste-to-energy plants a waste of energy, recycling advocates say
Renewable power’s growth in Colorado presages national debate
Michael Vickerman on feed-in tariffs (audio)
The Economist debates our world energy crisis
Starting tomorrow The Economist Online Debate Series is starting a two-week long online, Oxford-style debate on solving the world’s energy crisis. Readers are invited to participate.
United States – Aug 17
Friedman on McCain & renewables: 8 strikes and you’re out
Colbert on offshore drilling
Raleigh county mountain at center of coal vs. wind debate
Beware the energy hot air (the Pickens plan)
Woolsey on T Boone Pickens
API: Oil demand at 5-year low
Windfall tax lets Alaska rake in billions from Big Oil
Do it ALL for energy?
Review: “Profit from the Peak”
Is the end of a cheap fossil fuel era at hand? How will we make the transition from a world dependent on hydrocarbon energy to one powered by a mix of hydrocarbons and renewable energy, and can we profit from this coming shift? Answers to these questions are found in a new book by Brian Hicks and Chris Nelder.
ODAC Newsletter – August 15
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
