FuelCell’s Burning Cash
Despite a history that proves fuel cell companies burn a lot of cash but produce precious little energy in doing so, optimistic investors continue to shovel more and more cash into the fire.
Renewable Energy
Can We Live Without Oil?
The fall 2004 issue of YES! magazine is devoted to Peak Oil. About a dozen articles are available online. Subjects include biodiesel, hydrogen, transportation and conservation. Authors include Hunter Lovins, James Lovelock and David Orr.
Hydrogen: A Week Without Dinosaurs
An ancient Hindu myth held that the world rides on the back of an elephant. The Iroquois believed it was a turtle. In the age of science, we know different: It’s a dinosaur.
New Process Could Help Make Hydrogen Fuel Affordable
Scientists in Australia say they have have made a breakthrough in the efficiency of using sunlight to generate hydrogen from water. It may be a step toward an affordable source of clean energy.
Biofuels not the answer, yet
Despite recent crude runup, fuel from plants still 50% pricier; more incentives needed.
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.”
