Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
-On burning wood, coppicing and pollarding
-Floating challenge for offshore wind turbine
-Renewable Fuel Pretenders
-Pumping Up the Grid: Key Step to Green Energy
-US and China to unveil joint plan to ‘take over’ cleantech market
For decades the “Holy Grail” of the New Energy Economy has been to find ways to store wind and solar energy. The answers are here, and they are much more plain and simple than we thought. Like Indiana Jones in his Last Crusade, we need to see the Grail that is right before our eyes. The means to enable solar and wind energy to serve as our primary energy supplies are at hand.
-Michael C. Lynch and “the false threat of disappearing oil.”
-The New York Times on Peak Oil – Don’t Worry, Be Happy
-Oil: the Long Goodbye
-150 Years of Plenitude: The Story of Oil
-Peak Oil and Tourism
-Let There Be Light!
-Bolivians look to ancient farming
-Ambitious Solar Project to Use Recycled City Wastewater
-Another bold move in Portland
-A New Test for Business and Biofuel
-Surely Some Flora Out There Can Fuel My Car
-Fuels for thought
-Entrepreneurs Wade Into the ‘Dead Zone’
-Farmer saves $200,000 with poo power
-Vancouver firm makes fertilizer out of human sewage
-Wastewater Produces Electricity And Desalinates Water
-Electric car grants worth $2.4 billion unveiled
-Automotive “Methadone Program” (AKA Cash for Clunkers) Leads to Relapse in Germany
-High-speed rail in Spain: From Madrid to Barcelona in a flash
– The Future of Nuclear Energy: Facts and Fiction – Part I: Nuclear Fission Energy Today
– Star Power
A weekly review including:
– Production and prices
– Priorities
– Mexico
– Briefs
Last year the global credit crunch and its knock-on effects precipitated the sharpest oil and gas price declines in over two decades. Despite the recent $100+/ Bbl price implosion and subsequent partial recovery, we have now entered an historic inflection point—call it “practical peak oil”—in the global balance of conventional energy supplies…
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– Curbing Speculation
– EEStor’s New Battery
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)
