Dysfunction – Feb 12
Australia ignoring solar power, says pioneer
New Windows Vista: How the net turns code into politics
Rwanda: After so many deaths, too many births
Saudi Arabia: Foreign workers trapped in a gilded cage
Renewable Energy
C2C – the Emerging Energy Technologies Summit
The conference was a good place to see what some of the more creative thinkers (the speakers include two Nobel Laureates) see as the technology to get us out of our current mess. (Detailed report)
United States – Feb 9
US seeks ethanol partnership with Brazil to
counter Venezuela
Re-energizing Daily Kos’s Energize America
US moves in on Africa
Poverty shifts to the U.S. suburbs.
Transport – Feb 9
Swiss boat claims first solar Atlantic crossing
A rush-hour tax on urban drivers
EU plans carbon dioxide emissions limits
Oil industry – Feb 9
Exxon Mobil has no more doubts on warming
Aramco chief – make fossil fuels ‘cleaner’
Big Oil cautious about clean-energy spending
Biofuels – Feb 6
US News & World Rpt: Is ethanol the answer?
Indonesia: Massive biofuel program to go ahead despite concerns
NYT: The price of corn
Kudzu a potential fuel source
Food industry wants balanced biofuel policy
Bus Week: Food vs fuel
Environmentalists Need to Help Fight Bush’s Ethanol Surge
Corn-based ethanol has been at the center of a well-funded misinformation campaign launched and
perpetuated by the Bush Administration.
Biofuels – Feb 2
NYT: Palm oil may be an eco-nightmare
TOD on palm oil
Indonesia studies oil palm restriction plan
Thousands march over tortilla crisis in Mexico
Business Week: food vs. fuel
WSJ: Ethanol imports are rising
Berkeley to be hub for study of alternate fuel
Peak Oil – Feb 1
Any Painless Way To Fill The Oil Supply Gap?
Liberal markets create an addiction to gas
The Rapid Collapse of Cantarell by the Numbers
How can Oil plan at all?
Goldseek interview Kunstler
Top energy scientists agree, Bush wrong on alternative fuels
Senate Committee witnesses from three of America’s premier energy research institutions cast grave doubt on the feasibility of reaching President Bush’s State of the Union goal of manufacturing 35 billion gallons a year of alternative fuels by 2017. (Ed: A scoop? – other media outlets seem to have missed the story.)
In love with the lusty wind
Interview with wind energy expert Randall Tinkerman.
Biofuels – Jan 30
Ethanol after the State of the Union
The Sum of All Ears: Corn Cop-Out
Loser: Corn-o-copia
Major biodiesel project on hold
NZ: Switch to biofuels moves closer to reality
