Scientists Sound Warning on Global Warming

NASA has just announced that for the fourth year in a row, it has recorded the hottest annual global temperatures since reliable records started in the late 1800s. The three environmental groups are hoping their suit for endangered species status will force the Bush administration to face the issue of global warming. ABCNews

Shell Finds $4 Billion to Pump More Oil

Royal Dutch Shell is to increase its exploration and development investment programme by some 25 percent in a bid to satisfy the growing demands of the energy-hungry industrial giants of the U.S., China and India. The Anglo-Dutch oil and gas major said it is to pump in an extra $4 billion a year, taking annual […]

Toyota eyeing development of practical lithium ion battery

Toyota Motor Corp. will accelerate efforts to develop a practical lithium ion battery to power hybrid motor vehicles in a bid to reinforce its presence in the market for the environment-friendly cars, officials said Friday. The project will be promoted by Panasonic EV Energy Co., a joint venture between Toyota and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. […]

How South American Biofuels Are Gaining Steam

Brazil and Argentina are exploring how to make and export cleaner fuels. And as the U.S. prepares to take its own biofuel production to another level, some are wondering if the global market will end up smelling more like salsa or apple pie. earthvision

ExxonMobil

Each year, ExxonMobil publishes its view of the long-term trends of worldwide economic growth and energy demand: The Outlook for Energy. In the newly-released 2005 version, the energy giantgreencarcongress

New Website Seeks to Heat Up America

The Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) announced today the launch of a new website with updated and expanded information about using heat from inside the earth — geothermal energy — to produce power and energy. The new site provides information about where geothermal electricity is produced today in the US, new tax incentives for the renewable […]

Living & Dying in the Shadow of Russia’s Biggest Nuclear Fuel Reprocessor

Russia said this week it has no plans to shut down Mayak, the country’s biggest reprocessor of spent nuclear fuel. The plant, located just east of the Ural mountains in Russia’s Chelyabinsk Oblast, is considered to be the site of some of the worst radioactive contamination on earth. Mayak was created in the 1940s as […]

On Depaving

People with pickup trucks are welcome to participate, by bringing sledge hammers, picks and shovels, and hauling away rubble. For my driveway, we made attractive landscaping walls with the concrete pieces. It’s great to free the soil to grow flowers, vegetables and trees–it cools the atmosphere and empowers a human being in this megacorporate-dominated world. Grow some food by liberating the land.

From the Wilderness

Alberta

In a recent article ‘Canada can give the world a fresh energy source’, Author, Bernard Simon, explains that at stake is the opportunity for Canada to gain a long-term economic boost, for the US to bolster energy self-sufficiency, and for China and Japan to increase their access to crude supplies.

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Simmons: Ships, trains could solve U.S. energy crisis

NEW YORK, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Forget futuristic hybrid cars and solar-powered homes. The trains and river barges that drove the industrial age may be the key to stemming a U.S. energy crisis, according to one sector expert. Americans have faced rolling blackouts and record fuel prices in recent years as the nation’s aged and […]

Buenos Bios

How South American biofuels are gaining steam, and why that freaks the U.S. out In his drab office in the fashion-obsessed chaos of downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, Edmundo Defferrari cuts a farmhand’s figure in a corporate man’s world. The 28-year-old industrial engineer, in cap, jeans, and scruffy beard, taps through a PowerPoint presentation choked with […]

‘Peak Oil’ subject at Kentucky Oil & Gas meeting

Mammoth Resource Partners President Dr. Roger Cory gave a presentation on ‘Peak Oil’ at the quarterly meeting of the Kentucky Oil & Gas Association meeting. Mammoth Resource Partners, Inc. President Dr. Roger L. Cory gave a dynamic powerpoint presentation on The decline is not limited to the U.S., however. A 2004 British Petroleum graph depicting […]

India blocks West Africa oil deal

A plan by India’s state-run oil company ONGC to acquire a stake in a Nigerian oil field has been blocked by cabinet… “Nigeria is a very risky country to invest in, especially for state-owned companies like ONGC,” said Jaspreet Singh, a senior analyst with Prabhudas Lilladher. BBC

Biodiesel providing fuel for thought

Early this year, Carl’s Corner became the center of the current hubbub surrounding biodiesel, an alternative vehicle fuel that can be made from vegetable oil, seed oil or animal fat, and can run diesel-powered vehicles. Biodiesel’s champions, which include farmers and environmentalists, tout the fuel’s benefits at every opportunity: Biodiesel is a renewable resource, homegrown […]

Will global oil prices head upward next year?

This year’s oil market witnessed spiral price hikes as global crude supplies did not keep pace with growing demand. It had a great impact on the global economy and people’s daily life. Will global oil prices head upward next year? Economists and market analysts have offered varying assessments on the trend in oil prices for […]

Centrica warns of more price rises

The UK’s largest power supplier has delivered a double blow by warning of higher energy bills and further job cuts over the coming 12 months. Centrica said its 17 million British Gas customers will have to pay more for their gas and electricity next year, which would be the fourth increase in two years. Scotsman

High Royalties Erode Shipbuilders’ Earnings

South Korean shipbuilders are paying large royalties on a core foreign technology for manufacturing liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, causing a big reduction in their earnings, industry sources said Friday. To build LNG carriers, most South Korean and foreign shipbuilders currently use a membrane containment system developed by Gaz Transport & Technigaz of France, a […]

Explosion at Russian N-plant

An explosion in a smelter on the site of a Russian nuclear power plant has killed one worker and severely injured two others, but state officials have said that radiation levels are normal. The blast occurred on Thursday at the Leningrad nuclear power plant in the closed nuclear town of Sosnovy Bor, outside the northern […]

OPEC Prepares for Oil Output Cut

OPEC paved the way for a cut in oil supplies early next year with an agreement yesterday that aims to pull organizationarabnews

The Peaks and Valleys Of Oil Dependence

Although no one knows for sure when oil production will “peak,” nearly everyone in the January/February issue of World Watch magazine’s Peak Oil Forum agrees that the age of oil will endcommondreams

BMW unveils the turbosteamer

The concept uses energy from the exhaust gasses of the traditional Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) to power a steam engine which also contributes power to the automobile – an overall 15 per cent improvement for the combined drive system.Gizmag

Billion-dollar gas project to go ahead

Joint venture partners have agreed to proceed with a $1.6 billion project to further develop Australia’s North-West Shelf gas fields.ABC

The nuclear option isn’t political expediency but scientific necessity

I feel both encouraged and dispirited by recent developments in climate change. Encouraged because the Kyoto treaty was finally ratified in February, and over the last few weeks politicians around the world have been meeting in Montreal to discuss their countries’ commitments to reduce damaging greenhouse emissions. The conference agreed to implement the Kyoto protocol […]

Oxford Spin-Off Develops New Catalysts for Hydrogen Production, Fischer-Tropsch

A new spin-off form Oxford Universitygreencarcongress

Peak Copper

If oil is the most important commodity, then copper cannot be far behind. Being used extensively in electrical power cables, electrical equipment, automobile radiators, cooling/refrigeration tubing, heat exchangers, artillery shell casings, optical fibre, water pipes, drain pipes, plumbing and even jewellery, this reddish-brown metal is a commodity that the world can ill afford to be […]

Bill Gates Bets $84M on Ethanol

When the richest man in the world invests $84 million in a company, you can be sure Wall Street notices. That’s why Neil Koehler, president and chief executive of Pacific Ethanol Inc. (Research), was looking as if he had won the Powerball jackpot on Tuesday. “It gave us instant credibility and the equity financing to […]

New Herculean Materials

Aircraft wings or helicopter rotors made of materials that can change their shape in response to electric controls have long been a dream of aeronautic engineers. It’s an application that would markedly improve the performance and fuel efficiency of aircraft. But the right shape-shifting material to make it happen has proven elusive. Now researchers at […]

Oilsand strategies adjust to fuel costs

Record high prices for natural gas aren’t expected to sideswipe oilsands developers as they forge ahead with their multi-billion-dollar projects. But they will drive the group, among industry’s largest consumers of the fuel, to reduce their dependence in favour of other energy forms and to even rethink investment strategies, industry observers said yesterday. Huge volumes […]

Price of fuel will determine economics of shipping by rail

Rail proponents are correct in that freight can be moved more fuel efficiently on rail as compared to truck. The reality is that, with current fuel prices, the energy savings are offset by the time it takes to handle freight by rail. The loading and off-loading, versus a truck that can carry the load from […]

Italy’s oil bill for 2005 soars to 21.6 billion euros

Italy this year will see its oil billsoar to 21.6 billion euros, a 4.6-billion-euro or 27 percent jump over 2004, sector sources said here on Thursday. The Unione Petrolifera (UP), the organization which groups together Italy’s oil companies, added that Italy’s total energy bill for 2005 will hit a 20-year high of 36.5 billion euros, […]

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