Renewables – Oct 18
Standard offer contracts – the future for renewable generation? /
Bush at renewable energy conference /
St Louis Renewable Energy Conference – Day 2
Renewable Energy
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.
Ethanol & renewables – Oct 12
St Louis renewable energy conference (day 1)
Report: Brazilian ethanol is sustainable
The trouble with ethanol (Patzek)
The ethanol alternative (ABC)
Oil Giants put energy Into other resources
Hubbert’s Defense Department
The U.S. military machine is built on and around cheap and available “mobility fuel,” and virtually its entire body of doctrine is founded on pre-Peak Oil thinking. If the world is at or fast approaching a state of Peak Oil, where does that leave us?
Transport – Oct 10
High oil prices clip travellers’ wings
Military wants a fuel-efficient Humvee
Behold, the bus of the future
Assessing GM’s fuel cell strategy
Yachts are getting bigger
Forest roads crumble
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 9
Downtown Revitalization Rules
China releases green accounting study
Faith, Hope, and Clarity: God & the Environment
Video: Stick a Yellow Ribbon up Your SUV
Peak Oil – Oct 5
It starts to look like a plateau
Yet another ‘inconvenient truth’
HK Kunstler – Making Other Arrangements
David Korten: The Great Turning
Solutions and sustainability – Oct 2
Dialogue tools and processes for social change
Wind turbines and solar panels in UK DIY stores
Green is the colour of spin
Peak Oil Video Conferencing challenges Airline emissions
Iranian Science Teachers May Be Enriching Students
Ethanol from Brazil and the USA
Brazilian success with its ethanol from sugar cane has been cited as an example of how the USA could get free from its oil imports by substituting ethanol for gasoline. But comparing USA ethanol from corn with Brazilian ethanol from sugar cane is like comparing mangoes and apples.
MIT: A dangerous energy climate
Panelists at the Emerging Technologies Conference voiced an urgent need for aggressive policies to promote energy efficiency, renewable power sources, and carbon sequestration.
Renewables – Sept 28
WorldWatch/CAP report on renewables
Schizophrenic biofuels section in otherwise good report
The pied piper of ethanol
The ascent of wind power
