Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Brazil: soya is not the solution to climate change /
Mexico discovers ‘huge’ oil field /
Australian oil output peaks on slippery slope /
Terror risks of nuclear fuel /
Big Oil’s smaller cushion /
Russia on energy (hints of peak oil?) /
US, Russia in nuclear power call
UK gas emergency looms /
A Hail Mary against global warming peril (thin solar panels) /
Uranium exploration in BC set to take off /
Fox: Mexican deep-water oil find may top Cantarell
“The days of inexpensive, convenient, abundant energy sources are quickly drawing to a close,” according to a recently released US Army strategic report. The report notes that a peak in global oil production looks likely to be imminent, with wide reaching implications for the US Army and society in general.
The future of natural gas pricing could be a trans-Atlantic tug of war /
Government delay pulls Iraq’s oil sector down /
Brazil leading the world in using ethanol /
US energy secretary: Need ethanol sources other than corn /
Will Canada fuel Fortress America?
Will unconventional natural gas save us? /
Market fundamentalists trying to take over European energy policies /
Survey respondents favor alternative fuels /
Fusion power: will it ever come? /
No future for fusion power, says top scientist /
Buried at sea: Shell’s plan for greenhouse gases
Poor developing nations are to feed the voracious appetites of rich countries for biofuels instead of their own hungry masses, and suffer the devastation of their natural forests and biodiversity.
Stronger solar storms predicted; blackouts may result /
The new biofuel republics /
Ensuring a biofuels industry that truly benefits rural America /
The green bullet (ethanol and foreign policy) /
St Patrick and the shortage of engineers /
Oil industry asks for help to ease skills shortage
Lovins: Winning the oil endgame (talk) /
The real cost of electricity /
Gov. Schweitzer’s coal-to-fuels program: What you didn’t hear on ‘60 Minutes’ /
Life in a grass house (the viability of switchgrass) /
Kuwaiti MP demands truth on Kuwaiti oil
An overview of US and international energy policy, including the prospects for an economy based on renewable energy, the security problems likely to result from tightening oil supplies, and a possible basis for making the transition to alternatives.
Seven Kentucky colleges and universities, along with 13 state and community organizations, have organized a conference that speaks to the severe and imminent threats to sustainability that face our nation.
Renewable energies to transform farmers into ‘energy moguls’ /
Russia challenged by nuclear woes /
U.S. eyes Alberta oilsands as key part of supply /
ExxonMobil drilled dry North Sea well off Norway /
Tough talk about oil (“Children of the Sun” book review)
As technology improves, biofuel sources are everywhere /
Feds want to pump money into biorefineries /
Charcoal-fired fuel cell /
GE eyes Wyoming coal for gasification /
Carlyle eyes renewable energy, predicts IPOs /
UK: Soaring gas prices will lead to 7,000 layoffs in plastics sector /
Oil & energy news for the truly obsessed /
