Coal – July 21
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
Technology
UK Government carbon transition plan – July 16
UK announces long-term carbon reduction strategy
Climate change: Green dreams
Energy bill rises to tackle climate change are tiny
Exxon: Late, But Always the Bride
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.
Then & now
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.
Renewables & efficiency – July 6
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
Deep thought – July 6
Bugging Out
How Politics Works and Why Activism is So Important
Risk Assessments: Playing the “What If?” Game
The Future of Transport
Dopamine Returned on Energy Invested (DREI)?
Tällberg Forum 2009
One Second After: A Book Review from a Prepper’s Perspective
Ruins of a Second Gilded Age
BLM Opens Doors for SW Solar Grand Plan
Just a year and a half after a breakthrough Solar Grand Plan study was published in the January 2008 Scientific American, the U.S. government has begun plans to implement major elements of such a Plan.
Commentary: Interview with Charles T. Maxwell (Part 2 of 2)
“We’re not going to have to help the oil industry. They already have all the help they need. I wouldn’t take away what they have but I wouldn’t add to it.”(Charlie Maxwell is the life-long oil industry analyst viewed by Barrons’ magazine as their energy guru.)
ODAC Newsletter – June 26
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Energy solutions – June 23
European Farmers Turn to Biogas Plants
Europe Mulls Huge Solar Project
Water for energy: The bad bet for biofuels
Biofuels & methane hydrate – June 17
Book Review: Green Algae Strategy
Mining “Ice That Burns”
Human sewage to power thousands of homes
Deep thought – June 16
The Barbaric Heart: Capitalism and the crisis of nature
Collapse conundrum: confrontation or descent by degrees
Only faith can solve the energy crisis
Bigger Isn’t Better
Can We Survive the ‘Anthropocene’ Period?
