Biofuels: A Disaster in the Making
Why is a union of NGOs, Indigenous Peoples Organizations and farmers’ movements calling for the suspension of biofuel subsidies?
Renewable Energy
NZ energy minister: ‘the end of cheap oil’
Whether conventional oil production will peak in the next year, or the next decade or a decade or two later, is moot. But it will peak and, in policy terms, the timeframe is short…
The Government believes the more serious and more immediate problem is climate change, and that is why we as a nation need to actively reduce the greenhouse gas emissions produce.
Budgets falling in race to fight global warming
Research into energy technologies by both government and industry has not been rising, but rather falling.
(Excerpts. Good summary of energy research and challenges.)
Agriculture – Oct 29
This crop revolution may succeed where GM failed /
The shining promise of ethanol doesn’t add up for farmers
Renewables – Oct 28
Man power: a great alternative /
My job: financing wind power /
Google to install largest corp solar power system /
Australian govt funds world’s largest solar power plant
We are living like gods. How to return to earth?
Random snippets from ASPO conference just held in Boston.
Biofuels – Oct 26
Cellulosic ethanol vs. biomass gasification /
Beyond corn: ethanol’s next generation /
Biofuel subsidies cost U.S. billions /
When kitchen waste isn’t wasted
Renewables – Oct 24
Khosla stumps for solar, California ballot initiative /
Ethanol: blessing or bane? /
Wind: discussion of the EROI research /
Outsourcing solar roofs /
Power lunch: Bacteria turn leftovers to energy
Launch of Encyclopedia of Earth
A new electronic reference has launched that needs input from the energy community [including input about Peak Oil]. With the recent public release of the Encyclopedia of Earth, scientists from around the world are joining to create a comprehensive, authoritative source of information about the environments of Earth and their interactions with society.
Renewables – Oct 18
Standard offer contracts – the future for renewable generation? /
Bush at renewable energy conference /
St Louis Renewable Energy Conference – Day 2
Payback analysis: an impediment to sustainability
To a traditional economist, one who boils life’s complexities down to income, outflows and the time value of money, our decision to install a solar domestic hot water system doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
Long live the Pentagon
The US military oil consumption is generally regarded to be a small amount compared to the country’s gigantic consumption. Since oil is and will remain a strategic vital commodity, the Pentagon does not have a luxury of turning its back to oil.
