ODAC Newsletter – 6 June 2008
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Renewable Energy
Renewables – June 5
UK report: Greener power to the people
Green energy firm bids to power London Olympics
Germany slashes solar subsidies
Biofuels – June 4
Biofuel bonanza not so sweet for Brazil’s sugar cane cutters (80% of jobs to go within 3 years)
US biofuel subsidies under attack at food summit
Petrol tax fuels ‘cooking oil wars’
Electricity – June 3
Sharp power-price rise hits Texas
Texas: Electricity price flies off the grid
Shockingly high electricity prices may await Americans this summer (new)
Texas wind farms choked off from grid due to insufficient power lines
Indonesia hospitals unprepared for blackouts
Vermont: Grid in danger
United States – June 1
T. Boone Pickens on future of energy (video)
Do we need an energy “Manhattan Project”?
Drill now – Georgia’s Westmoreland
Biofuels – May 31
Food report criticizes biofuel policies
Forced labor in Brazil’s sugarcane fields
Global biofuel output to soar in next decade
As oil prices soar, restaurants learn to lock up old grease
Sweden turning sewage into a gasoline substitute
Renewables – May 29
Sweden turning sewage into a gasoline substitute
Welsh energy drive turns the valleys green again
Powering the rain shadow
Biofuels – May 28
Brazil: Ethanol vs biodiversity
Despite doubts, Brazil pins hopes on sustainable sugarcane ethanol
Report: Effects of ethanol on Texas food and feed
Renewables – May 26
UK: Labour plans green revolution to slash energy prices and win back lost voters
Will the rate-of-conversion problem derail alternative energy?
Renewables & clean tech – May 23
Mike Splinter: renewable energy is the solution
Green cement
Microgen in the UK
Renewables – May 22
House passes massive tax extensions for renewable energy
Bartlett: Congressional delays hobble renewable energy
Environment is secondary to private profits (renewables vs sequestration)
Inter-connected global grid for green energy,
Biofuels – May 22
James Hamilton: Reconciling estimates: biofuels and food prices
New trend in biofuels has new risks (invasive weeds)
Biowar I: Why Battles over Food and Fuel Lead to World Hunger (book)
