Biofuels and agriculture – Jun 8
Ethanol: “laundering fossil fuels” (Audio) /
Thermodynamics of the corn-ethanol biofuel cycle (Audio) /
Pimental on organic agriculture (Audio) /
The Dirty Truth About Green Fuel
Renewable Energy
Other Energy – Jun 8
Airline association predicts $3bn loss for global industry /
Debate Over Wind Power Creates Environmental Rift /
Survey: Americans Leery Of New Refineries, Nuclear Plants /
For freedom from Big Oil, California looks to Denmark /
Campaign to ‘Kick the Oil Habit’
A warm bath of energy — ocean thermal energy conversion
The Earth has an enormous natural solar collector – the tropical oceans. Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is a technology that can extract useful work from solar energy stored in the sea. It may be one of our best hopes for the environmentally clean, sustainable solutions we need to solve our global energy and environmental problems.
Solutions & sustainability – Jun 7
Peak Moment TV: Community Responses to a Changing Energy Future /
Relocalization – Our Only Solution to Peak Oil /
Mass Natural (on Wal-Mart organics) /
The Grass-Fed Revolution /
Chinese take to solar-powered water heaters /
Australian science body: Solar thermal will soon match coal
Other Energy – Jun 7
Oil Sands’ Natural Gas Demand Expected to Triple /
Are Gasoline Alternatives Fuel for a Revolution? /
EU countries seek to annex lucrative tract of Atlantic seabed /
Oil price surge may delay airline recovery /
Can oil companies handle more storms? /
Saudi oil production for April dropped to 9.1 million b/d
Technofix bubbles of hydrogen and biofuels at Pentagon’s energy conversation
Energy in the form of hydrogen, as well as biofuels, is one of the few mainstays of hope for clinging to global economic growth. What of lifestyle change and truly sustainable, local economics? That’s not what’s being planned for you.
Other Energy – June 2
Road to Perdition (the ‘streetcar conspiracy’) /
Shell looks to turn sand into oil /
Oil-Rich Venezuela Looks to Tar Deposits /
Ethantol: Lessons from Brazil /
GMO bacterium to produces 86% ethanol
Solutions & sustainability – Jun 2
Watching ‘The Power of Community’ with family /
Energy’s ‘three Rs’: a primer /
Build community, invest for post-collapse, get your blog read /
Solar power – seriously souped up /
Green building goes big
Other Energy – June 1
Silicon supply could limit solar energy boom /
The nuclear wisdom of young Blair /
China bets big on coal-to-oil projects /
Oil shortages hit Iraq with onset of summer heat
Solutions & sustainability – May 31
Post Carbon Relocalization Network Meeting (great list of projects) /
Brian Goodwin on redesigning universities and the monetary system for Peak Oil /
Norway: Wood-to-Diesel Project /
Urban Wind Farms – coming to a town near you /
AfterCulture – future anthropology
Other energy – May 31
Quest for energy alternatives heats up / Fill ‘er up with corn and politics / Solving our carbon addiction without choking growth
The newest guest at your dinner table: your car
Of the more than 6 billion people now on earth, 3.7 billion suffer from some form of malnutrition. For these reasons and others now does not seem like a good time to embark on a program to turn a significant portion of the world’s food crops into fuel for automobiles.
