Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The competition between energy and environmental needs in Niger has taken centre stage of late, with authorities seeking to promote the use of coal in a bid to halt deforestation in the North African country.
Peter Davies, the vice chairman and chief economist of BP said: “Wind and solar energies are only in the minds of scientists at the moment. They are not in the market now, but they may be in 50 years.”
THE Government will fail to hit its target of generating 10% of the country’s energy from renewable sources by 2010, senior industry figures have told Financial Mail on Sunday.
A treasure chest of downloadable presentations on Peak Oil topics, including OPEC, energy and equity, alternative energy, and hydrogen.
Eight-page report on the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO)conference this May in Germany…Our conclusion from the meeting? Peak Oil is real, and it’s getting closer.
The UK is to encourage the production of biomass, crops grown specially for use as environmentally-friendly fuels.
A plant which can convert vegetable oil into biodiesel fuel is opening in west Wales.
UK scientists think they have taken a major step forward in making hydrogen a practical replacement for petrol.
Japan’s Electric Power Development Co. aims to soon commercialize a new electric power generation system that combines fuel cells and coal-fired thermal power, President Yoshihiko Nakagaki said Thursday.
British Telecom has announced a three-year plan to get all of its energy needs from renewable sources – the biggest such project in the world.
Boosting U.S. wind energy installations to approximately eight times
today’s levels could create 150,000 manufacturing jobs nationwide, with
most jobs being added in the 20 states that have lost the most over the
past three years, according to a report released today by the Renewable
Energy Policy Project (REPP).
Book review of THE HYPE ABOUT HYDROGEN: Fact and Fiction in the Race To Save the Climate, by Joseph J. Romm. (Strong focus in the review on policy.)
