Solar – Sept 17
Australia may miss solar power boom
NATURE: Silicon Valley sunrise
Desperately seeking silicon
Renewable Energy
Biofuels – Sept 17
From wheat to corn
Could sugar cane save the planet?
Addressing Proposition 87 criticisms (California)
Ethanol – Sept 16
South Africas ethanol landscape
Extracting grain of truth on ethanol
Consumer Reports: The ethanol myth
India backs down on blending
Honda claims cellulose breakthrough
U.S. energy policy – Sept 10
Energy policy takes center stage in US politics/
Windfarms in Guantanamo & solar panels in Iraq- DoD worries about energy /
Nuclear energy: status and outlook (Sept 18 inter-agency talk)
Agriculture (food & fuel)-Sept 10
Our big fat world
Redesigning crops to harvest fuel
Kew boss: the dangers of biofuels
Can’t see the Future for the Trees
Biofuels contribute to some of the very problems they seek to address. The search for a sustainable energy source has uncovered some surprising options.
Biofuels – Sept 6
New Zealand firm makes bio-diesel from sewage
Fish fat to fuel in Vietnam
Rabobank: Biofuel industry unviable without Govt support
Time to slow down on biofuels?
Palm oil prices to rise
Biofuels – Aug 31
NYT: Fill up on corn if you can
NASA joins Brazilian biofuel effort
Rapier: Energy balance of ethanol versus gas
Renewables – Aug 30
The new energy companies
Giant turbines bring winds of change
to W. Texas
Alternative energy without being too green
Engineers race to steal nature’s secrets
U.S. energy policy – Aug 29
Iraq commanders want renewable power
Californians weigh new tax on oil companies
Lugar: U.S. must break oil habit
Bush courts oil-rich Kazakhstan
Hydrogen to the rescue? Questions about Iceland’s sustainability
Iceland plans to be the first country to implement a hydrogen economy, taking advantage of its vast electric resources. However, sustainability is still wanting in this tiny, isolated island nation, despite its massive advantages over most countries. It cannot, at this time, free itself from the world oil economy.
The strategy of salvage
The humble alternator, junkyard fodder in an industrial society but a valuable resource in a deindustrial one, offers a snapshot of the possibilities for action in a post-peak society.
