Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
– California votes down offshore project
– How Can Obama Pay for Healthcare Reform? How about Linking it to a ‘Manhattan Project for Energy Efficiency’?
– Lessons learned from General Motors’ collapse
– Climate Change and the Future of Southern California: Peak Oil and Climate Change Scenarios
– Is the ocean Florida’s untapped energy source?
Ray Leonard was selected last week to serve as CEO of Hyperdynamics Corp., a Houston-based and AMEX-listed oil and gas company with exploration assets in West Africa…A number of international organizations and elite audiences in Washington D.C. have heard his talks and have taken them seriously. Steve Andrews reached him last week and popped several quick questions.
– Matthias Reinig on Desertec Industrial Initiative
– Desertec Solar Project Shows That Green Investors Can’t Afford to be Too Green If They Want to Make $$
– European power from the desert is a Fata Morgana
– Stewart Taggart at Desertec-Australia on clean power from deserts worldwide
More wind than we thought?
On the Brink of a New Era in Energy (interview with Siemens CEO)
Gerry Wolff at TREC-UK updates the Desertec story (video)
Nationalise coal— to fund a just transition away from it (interview)
How to end America’s deadly coal addiction
Clean Coal: Competitive Someday, Just Not Today
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Demand, production, and prices
-South Asia
-China’s Growth
-Briefs
A weekly review from a UK perspective
After many months of Ed Milliband putting himself out there as a Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change that actually gets climate change, finally his big Plan, the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan was unveiled on Wednesday…
UK announces long-term carbon reduction strategy
Climate change: Green dreams
Energy bill rises to tackle climate change are tiny
Quite apart from the long-shot chance that the venture could actually succeed, Exxon benefits from being able to brandish an environmental pin on its lapel, and its association with an authentic biofuels rock star.
Recently a friend gave me a copy of a January 22, 1973 issue of Newsweek. The cover title was “The Energy Crisis”. It’s interesting to look back and see how things have changed; or, to be more accurate, not changed.
Renewable power? Not in your lifetime
Seven Paths to Our Energy Future
Wesley Clark: Ethanol’s field general
Energy Secty Chu’s alternative choice
Can I Clean Your Clock?
World`s largest cement firms slash production emissions by a third
