Biofuels not the answer, yet
Despite recent crude runup, fuel from plants still 50% pricier; more incentives needed.
Renewable Energy
The hydrogen challenge to Arab oil has it’s pitfalls
While world supply of conventional oil looks set to peak, hydrogen has long been proposed as a solution. But in spite of billions of dollars now being spent on research, no one has yet found a simple, safe and cheap way to produce it.
Ready to Bet on Alternative Energy? Well, Think Again
Wall Street continues to ignore alternative energy sources which typically require huge infrastructure investment.
County’s farmers launch biofuels co-operative
FARMERS in Pembrokeshire have launched a co-operative to produce, market and supply biofuels.
Biofuels Reloaded
“…if you want to grow energy crops, look for the one that has the highest yield per hectare and therefore the highest amount of ethanol produced for the land you are setting aside for biofuel production.”
Squeeze Play! Energy’s Perfect Storm
The cost and availability of oil will be impacted by “peaking”; natural gas supply will fail to meet production and supply demands; nuclear offsets aren’t being addressed and the failure of transmission lines to be replaced or upgraded are all rapidly coming together in a short period of time and will cause rocketing prices and supply disruption.
UK: Wave energy test centre launched
A new centre to harness Scotland’s wave and tidal energy has been officially opened in Orkney by the Deputy First Minister Jim Wallace.
New Energy Age: Do We Really Mean It This Time?
Mark Braly reports from the German Government’s Renewables 2004 conference in Bonn, that “something else, not new but more urgently felt, was in the air at the conference. The expert consensus now holds that the peak of world oil production is near – if it has not already happened.”
Thermal Depolymerization plant closed
The RES thermal depolymerization plant was shut down production after complaints about the smell were raised. They later resumed production, then shut the plant down again after the smell resurfaced.
Algae as a biomass source.
In ideal conditions some species of algae grow at very high rates, up to 30 times the rate for land plants. The oil content can be 40%.
Carbon negative energy to reverse global warming
Partisan report on potential for coproduction from biomass of charcoal for terra preta soil generation and hydrogen, ammonia and diesel.
Getting warm in the search for future energy supply
Once production peaks then it can’t meet demand and then prices will rise and it will be the equivalent of the oil shock in the 1970s. That will be a huge boost to renewables.
