Earth is too crowded for Utopia

The global population is higher than the Earth can sustain, argues the Director of the British Antarctic Survey in the first of a series of environmental opinion pieces on the BBC News website entitled The Green Room. Solving environmental problems such as climate change is going to be impossible without tackling the issue, he says. […]

Wind Power 2005 in Review, Outlook for 2006 and Beyond

The North American wind power market is at last entering a period of sustained growth. Both the US and Canada achieved record installations of wind power projects in 2005, and both are poised for steady growth moving forward. And coupled with this growth a new competitive element has emerged that will further define the North […]

A Colorado parcel may bring forth next energy boom

Tucked into a ravine, and hidden behind ridges standing like stony sentinels, is the site of Shell Oil Co.’s experimental, highly anticipated 30-year project to unlock oil from vast underground beds of rock. Here, on this sweeping plateau in western Colorado, the Bush administration has fixed its hopes for a long-mentioned energy boom: oil shale, […]

Gazprom wants to transport more gas through Belarus

The world’s largest gas company Gazprom said today it intended to increase the amount of gas it transports via Belarus in partnership with its Beltransgaz partner. Beltransgaz and Gazprom have decided to set up a working group to study projects which can be put into operation in the near future, Gazprom’s deputy chairman Alexander Medvedev […]

Organic Photovoltaics Absorb From Near Infrared Frequencies

Global Photonic Energy Corporation (GPEC), developer of organic photovoltaic (OPVtm) technology for ultra-low cost high power solar cells, announced that the company’s research partners at Princeton University and the University of Southern California (USC) have achieved a new record in an organic solar cell that is responsive to light in the near infrared (NIR) range […]

VW, Shell, Iogen to study German biofuel plant

Volkswagen , Royal Dutch Shell and Canadian biotech firm Iogen Corp. will jointly study whether to build a plant in Germany that can make cellulose ethanol, a biofuel that can cut cars’ carbon dioxide emissions by 90 percent, Volkswagen said on Sunday. The partners signed a letter of intent at the North American International Auto […]

Fossil-fuel crisis drives Europe to nuclear, green energy

Surging oil prices, deepening concern about carbon pollution and sudden worries over Russia’s reliability as a gas supplier have been a windfall for Europe’s nuclear and renewable energy industries. The biggest beneficiary could be the continent’s nuclear firms, whose fortunes have been blighted for nearly two decades. yahoo

China-Africa trade jumps by 39%

Trade between China and African nations jumped 39% to $32.17bn (More at the BBC

The Oil Drum: Predicting US Production with Gaussians…

Stuart’s at it again. Comparing linearizations to logistic to Gaussians…but he does come up with some pretty neat findings! (lots of charts and geekspeak in this one too…not for the faint of heart!)Much more after the jump to The Oil Drum.

Crisis in the pipeline

Britain escaped the effects of the gas row between Ukraine and Russia. But our own supply is on a knife-edge. In a long cold spell, demand would outstrip supply, with disastrous results. Thanks to BritainTimes Online

Energy question may spell end of the good life for the West

N HIS 1939 book On the Marble Cliffs, the German soldier and scholar Ernst J Since the Second World War, the economic and social progress of the planet, for better and worse, has been heavily influenced by the policies and cultural make-up of OECD nations. That progress, if such it be, has been fuelled largely […]

Gas: Russia’s secret agenda Energy supply is a ‘political weapon’

Last week’s confrontation between Ukraine and Russia has fuelled suspicions that Moscow intends to use its dominant position in the European gas market to exert political control. The decision by the state-controlled Gazprom to quadruple the price of its gas overnight looked suspiciously like revenge for last year’s Orange revolution, which took Ukraine away from […]

N Korea reactor project pullout is complete-Seoul

All 57 remaining officials of a light-water nuclear reactor project in North Korea left the site on Sunday and arrived in the South, an official said, marking the end of a failed attempt to end the North’s nuclear ambitions. One American and 56 South Koreans affiliated with the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation (KEDO) were […]

Iran to remove UN nuclear seals

Iran has said it is preparing to remove UN seals at some nuclear research and development sites, despite strong Western opposition to its decision to resume atomic research halted over two years ago. Hamid Reza Asefi, the foreign ministry spokesman, told a weekly news conference on Sunday that his country was ready to resume research […]

Iraq immediately requires an oil policy, warn experts

Iraq has held elections, but when Oil&Gas Middle East went to press, the country had not formed its next government, leaving it still without an oil policy. The freshly elected legislators are split over the allocation of the nation’s hydrocarbon wealth. Exactly how much oil is there to fight over and how fast it can […]

Will new gas pipeline provide energy security?

Though the Russia-Ukraine crisis has not been allowed to affect the pioneering agreement to build a $7 billion gas pipeline linking Iran, Pakistan and India, it did remind the world of the perils of what is called “pipeline power.” The proposed 2,100km pipeline, which could lay the foundations of a more stable South Asian polity, […]

Labour kicks off energy review as Russia darkens the outlook

The Government is set to launch its long-awaited energy review this month. Officials at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) have pencilled in 16 January for the launch of the public consultation, which is expected to last around three months, but the date could slip towards the end of the month…The dispute over gas […]

Airlines feel the weight of fat flyers

Australia’s growing obesity problem is forcing airlines to adopt unique measures to cater for the increasing number of overweight passengers. ..A recent report by The American Journal Of Preventive Medicine found that overweight passengers were adding millions to the fuel costs of airlines, but there seems to be no comparable data here. The Sidney Morning […]

Geothermal Energy 2005 in Review, 2006 Outlook

This has been a watershed year for geothermal energy, and the outlook for future growth is very strong,” said Karl Gawell, Executive Director of the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), the U.S. industry trade association. In 2005, a wave of new power production contracts were signed, new direct use projects were underway, federal tax and regulatory […]

Saudi Arabia plans to double gas production

Saudi Arabia’s pivotal position as the world’s leading oil producer is well known but its credentials in terms of gas resources are also impressive. The country’s proven reserves of gas have doubled in 20 years to 6.7 trillion cubic metres. As a result, the Kingdom now has the third largest proven gas reserves in the […]

BP’s Browne in Russian racketeering lawsuit

An oil company that claims it fell victim to extortion in Russia has accused BP and its chief executive Lord Browne of profiting from its plight. Norex Petroleum of Canada is demanding up to $2bn in compensation and punitive damages in a lawsuit against BP and its boss, among others. The legal action, filed in […]

Hy-Drive Secures C$2.3M to Support Commercialization of On-Board Electrolyzer

Hy-Drive Technologies, makers of a compact, on-board, on-demand electrolyzer that produces hydrogen for mixture with conventional hydrocarbon fuel (gasoline, diesel or propane), has secured C$2.3 million (US$2.0 million) in investment to fund its working capital and equipment requirements as it nears commercialization of its new generation G2 unit. The addition of small amounts of hydrogen […]

Six Asia-Pacific Nations Join in Climate Change Partnership

A new partnership of six major Asia-Pacific nations that targets the deployment and commercialization of revolutionary energy technologies will be launched January 11-12 at the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate Change in Sydney, Australia. During a January 6 briefing in Washington, U.S. officials said the voluntary initiative among Australia, China, India, Japan, South […]

The future of solar power

The overview on the applications of solar photovoltaic systems (December 31) promises an extremely bright future for solar power. A word of warning so as not to fall into the same trap as that posed by adverts for solar water heating systems. Adverts used to claim that a solar water heater saved “80 per cent […]

Biodiesel breakdown

Only days after a Wisconsin trucking firm switched to biodiesel fuel, its trucks started breaking down on the road. Engines sputtered as fuel filters became plugged with unknown, slimy gunk. The problem worsened in cold weather. jsonline

Japan aims to adopt GTL, biofuels

Japan has set out an ambitious goal of replacing a fifth of its oil demand with biofuels or gas-to-liquid (GTL) fuels by 2030, but the plans will do little to ease its insecurity over imported energy supplies. Japangulf-times

Peak Oil Is Not A Theory

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality held the first full-scale Congressional hearing Peak Oil on December 7, 2005. The audience of fifty was sizeable for the small conference room, with all eyes fixed on the speakers for two and a quarter hours of bracing information. The reactions from Representatives were […]

Ukraine row has China, Japan worry about over-reliance on Russian energy

As Russia wielded its energy weapon against Ukraine to devastating effect last week, China and Japan were wary observers, worrying that one day the same might happen to them, observers said. Neither Asian power has ever felt entirely comfortable with the Kremlin, and its decision to drastically raise the price of the gas it sells […]

Russia Seeks to Maintain ‘Energy Bridge’ to the West

Russia denied Friday that its temporary cutoff of natural gas to Ukraine last week in a pricing dispute raised doubts about its ability to act as a responsible energy supplier to Europe. But a Foreign Ministry official acknowledged that there were “certainly … political factors” in Moscow’s aim to maintain a strategic route for transporting […]

A rough new year for consumers

The American consumer has been the hero of the economy for the past few years, accounting for some 70 percent of U.S. economic activity. Even after gasoline prices spiked in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita — causing a decade-low in consumer-sentiment indexes — shoppers kept their wallets open. The U.S. economy grew at […]

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