Women pioneers in Biofuel
Women are pioneering the emerging biofuels industry, which uses recycled vegetable oil to power vehicles that produce far fewer emissions than diesel fuel.
Renewable Energy
Clinton Urges Effort to Address Energy
Former president Bill Clinton chided supporters to stop “bellyaching and whining” about the political obstacles and begin a new effort to address the intertwined problems of energy dependence and global warming.
The Hydrogen Economy
The gap between the present state of the art in hydrogen production, storage, and use and that needed for a competitive hydrogen economy is too wide to bridge in incremental advances. It will take fundamental breakthroughs of the kind that come only from basic research.
E-ON Wind Report 2004
E-ON Netz, a corporation which controls much of Europe’s electricity grid, has produced a report on the problems associated with the fluctuating availability of wind energy.
Rise of the DIY movement / Collapse of the petroleum delusion
To see ahead, we have to understand what we are in the midst of. I pronounce this pre-collapse phase as the beginning of the grand nightmare. Mind you, there will be a dawn, but an unrecognizable one to myopic dwellers of consumer civilization.
Australia: Biomass can’t save us.
Most people assume that renewable energy resources can be substituted for fossil fuels. It takes only a glance at some basic figures re the production of liquid fuels from biomass inputs to show that this vision is totally mistaken.
Audio: Geopolitics and Moonshine: Peak Oil and Community Solutions (Part 1)
Second set of audio recordings from the First US Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions, this time featuring Pat Murphy on the geopolitics of oil and permaculturist David Blume on home grown ethanol production.
Solar Cell Doubles as Battery
A practical solar energy system usually includes solar cells that convert light to electricity and batteries that store the energy for later use.
Scientists cite breakthrough in producing pure hydrogen
Researchers at a government nuclear laboratory and a ceramics company in Salt Lake City say they have found a way to produce pure hydrogen with far less energy than other methods, raising the possibility of using nuclear power to indirectly wean the transportation system from its dependence on oil.
Coloradans Vote to Embrace Alternative Sources of Energy
Colorado utilities will have to sell a lot
more electricity from wind power in years to come under a statewide
ballot initiative approved by voters on Nov. 2, and if they want
some pointers they might talk to Adam T. Kremers, a 19-year-old
sophomore at Colorado State University here. He has been there and
done that.
A Virtual Ecotopia
Like many, my first thought on seeing the electoral map of November 2nd was a blue state secession. The blue left coast hanging there off of Canada looked just like Ecotopia to me.
Fuel for nought: biofuels = disaster
The adoption of biofuels would be a humanitarian and environmental disaster
