Coal – Nov 19
Can Coal Come Clean?
Union calls for clean coal investment
‘Clean coal’ has detractors
Don’t Grandfather Coal Plants
Pasadena seeks deal on coal-energy ban
In Second Coal Rush, New Mind-Set in the Mines
Technology
Energy secretary on the future of oil and the need for alternatives
If we look two or three or four decades into the future, we know that hydrocarbons alone will not meet the needs of a growing world economy. Even with all the technical expertise the world could offer and all the political will it could muster, eventually, we will run out of oil. And, even before then, the price of a dwindling supply will be prohibitive. At present, our world is overly focused on, and overly dependent upon, one source of energy. And that path is unsustainable.
Solar (2) – Nov 12
The Elf Queen, the sun and the Tower of Tomorrow
Silicon and sun (and sea sponges)
Cheap, superefficient solar
EU directive on energy-using products could force monumental changes
Manufacturers in the EU will be required to calculate the energy used to produce, transport, sell, use, and dispose of almost every one of its products. And in time, it will set limits on a product-by-product basis of how much energy can be used in a product’s entire lifecycle.
Elegant Technology
Technology is only of value to the degree that it provides for quality of life without creating negative power-relationships that outweigh that benefit.
Budgets falling in race to fight global warming
Research into energy technologies by both government and industry has not been rising, but rather falling.
(Excerpts. Good summary of energy research and challenges.)
Electricity – Oct 16
Less power to the people
Power-grid report suggests dark days ahead
Lightbulb giveaway is switched off
Economics – Oct 15
Dow CEO on energy and economic growth
Dupont’s sustainability commitment
Germany’s Merkel calls competition key to power prices
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 11
Will silicon light illuminate the future?
A climate hero
Healthy gardens just the start for healthy community
Relocalisation comes to town
Energy Descent: Community questions future
A post-peak open space event
Are you exceptional?
Communities, Refuges, and Refuge-Communities
How do our metaphors for Peak Oil direct our thought about its severity? This essay examines this question and others that relate to Peak Oil preparations and the debate within the peaknik community about how bad it might get.
Nuclear – Sept 26
Sellafield reprocessing plant failing
Early check for nuclear plant amid safety fears
Egypt to build nuke plants
Russia to start building nine nuclear power units in 2007
Russia, Iran agree on launch date of nuclear power plant
Solar – Sept 17
Australia may miss solar power boom
NATURE: Silicon Valley sunrise
Desperately seeking silicon
