Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
CanadaChanging: ecological fiscal reform / Julian Darley: A new kind of money (based on sustainable energy) / Reserved For The future /
Cities reward ‘lifestyle’ that conserves water / This trade in carbon emissions won’t combat global warming / Miliband unveils carbon swipe-card plan for UK /
Solution: Carbon tax
Lester Brown: supermarkets and service stations now competing for grain / How the energy crisis will help my diet / India: organic farming, answer to farmers’ suicides? / Peak oil preview: North Korea & Cuba
China’s Wind Power /
China set to invest $200bn in renewable energy sector /
China: Natural gas discovery in sea /
OPEC: 07 Non-OPEC Oil Supply Seen Highest In Decades /
Greenland makes oil companies melt
Local wind opponents and right-wing think tanks.
Both wind-power supporters and opponents replied to my column last week.
Indonesia to spend a massive US$ 22 billion by 2010 to promote biofuels / Lester Brown: supermarkets and service stations now competing for grain / Challenges emerge for wind power (costs up 70%)
Why pellets are packing the power / A hundred thousand points of light: Thinking out of the grid / Energy surety for mission readiness (microgrids and the military) / Movie casts the electric car as hero, GM as bad guy
Sympathetic coverage of a plan by Roger Bezdek, coauthor of “The Hirsch Report.” The four-part plan suggests: coal-to-liquid (Fischer-Tropsch process), pumping CO2 into old oil fields, biomass as a feedstock for synthetic fuel, and oil shale.
Edible oil turns into bio-diesel /
Ethanol ain’t all it’s cracked up to be /
Green Energy: A Second Coming /
Focus on biofuels is foolish /
It’s Corn vs. Soybeans in a Biofuels Debate /
Indonesia to spend a massive US$ 22 billion by 2010 to promote biofuels
At last weekend’s Lucerne Fuel Cell Conference, Ulf Bossel, the organizer, made a pretty signinficant announcement
US DOE Releases Roadmap for Cellulosic Ethanol /
Biofuels, Petro-fuels = Liquid Fuels (Part One) /
Patzek: The Real Biofuel Cycles /
Ethanol won’t solve energy problems /
USDA Questions Sugar-To-Ethanol Profits
Revealed: G8 plan for global nuclear expansion /
Nuclear to power ahead of renewables in UK plan / Germany’s new power (renewables) / A dated carbon approach / EU may introduce carbon tax on airplanes / So we drive on
