Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The adoption of biofuels would be a humanitarian and environmental disaster
It has been a record year of investment in the UK wind power industry, with new farms created up three-fold on 2003.
With no help from the Bush administration — but plenty from Europe, Japan, New York, and California — solar power is edging into the mainstream.
The first Texas Clean Energy Congress, with more than 150 attendees from more than 50 organizations, convened in Austin this week and ratified on Monday a Declaration of Sustainability and a Clean Energy Bill of Rights.
Washington, DC — Move over solar, wind power, geothermal and other renewable energy technologies – it’s all about hydrogen these days.
“Make no mistake about it, the visions being mapped out for a hydrogen economy on both sides of the Atlantic provide an excuse for the revival of nuclear and give environmental legitimacy to fossil fuels.”
Municipal and state officials are reluctant to say whether the purchase of wind energy, which costs about 2 percent more than conventional sources, is in fact a violation of state law state which appears to prohibit municipalities from paying a premium for utilities, instead mandating that they accept the lowest bid.
