When It Comes to Alternate Fuels, All Gallons Aren’t Equal

SOME drivers who fill their cars with gasoline this summer may find themselves traveling fewer miles on a tankful than they did last summer. Their gas tanks did not shrink, and it’s not a year’s wear and tear cutting into the mileage. The difference is the fuel nytimes

What to Do When the Oil (or the Innovation) Is Gone?

WITH global economic growth near its fastest pace in decades, is there a chance that we’ll finally run out of the resources we need? Oil, copper and even people will someday be noticeably scarcer than they are today, and technology may not always provide a way out. “Being sensible people, we can say that the […]

Will we run out of oil?

It was on a 2003 trip to Saudi Arabia and tour of the country’s oil fields that curiosity got the best of energy investment banker Matthew Simmons. For several years after writing a white paper on the world’s largest oil fields, Simmons, of Houston, held doubts about OPEC’s ability to continually pump more crude, and […]

Kuwait plans $66 billion investment in oil sector

Kuwait intends to spend some $65.51 billion (19bn dinars) by 2020 to develop its oil industry, the backbone of its economy, a senior oil official said yesterday. Among projects seen as part of the spending plan, he said, was 8bn dinars ($27bn) would go to raising production capacity to four million barrels a day from […]

Long History of Southwest Droughts Confirms Looming Water Shortage

A new study comparing the most recent drought in the Southwest United States with other dry periods going back 508 years confirms worries that water shortages will become more common and severe. Agreements to allocate water from the Colorado River were made in 1922, during an historically wet period. More water was allocated than is […]

Cox unveils farm fuels initiative

Secretary of State Cathy Cox said Saturday she wants farm-grown fuel to make up 25 percent of all the fuel used in Georgia by 2025. Georgia is a leading producer of animal and vegetable oils, which are the building blocks for biodiesel. And the state could also begin converting biomass like pecan hulls, poultry litter […]

Energy official: Making fuel from coal looks promising

High oil prices make it possible to turn a profit in making liquid fuel from coal, and a nascent federal loan guarantee program may help lessen the financial risk, a U.S. Energy Department official says. “Coal to liquids is not so much of a technology … problem, as it is an economic risk issue,” said […]

Oil demand will die out: Saudi Minister

Saudi Oil Minister Ali Naimi has said that industrialized countries were studying intensely the use of alternative forms of energy, which would lead to limiting world demand for oil and reliance on Arab oil. Their impact will not be felt in the next two or three years, “but the telltale signs are beginning to show […]

India Making E5 Mandatory in October 2006

Financial Express. The Indian Government will require refiners to blend 5% ethanol in gasoline starting in October 2006, and may increase that to a 10% requirement the following year, depending upon the success of the program. The standards will apply to both public and private sectors. greencarcongress

humanity may opt to let it happen

During the present century, human beings are likely to experience a change in the planetary environment unlike any in history. Climate change is irreversible, and accelerating fast. No one, apart from a few cranks speaking on behalf of the Bush administration, doubts that global warming is a side effect of human activity. Accumulating scientific evidence […]

Ottawa Absent at Major Climate Change Conference

For the first time in CanadaThe Republic

A Personal Peak Oil Discovery Process, Part I

I became convinced that Heinberg and others were absolutely correct in asserting that no combination of alternatives to oil could come anywhere close to replacing oil at present use levels. That includes coal to liquids, natural gas, oil shale, methane hydrates, hydrogen, ethanol, bio-diesel, and nuclear/wind/solar-based electric (including compressed air) cars comparable in size with today’s subcompacts.

The required adaptation time (2-3 decades) is quite simply not available. This is a scary conclusion for a technocrat like me.

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The Suburban Fantasy

by James Howard Kunstler
We simply cannot face the fact that time has run out

Asda hits back as Tesco takes the train to show its greener credentials

Supermarket group Tesco took another step to improve its green credentials yesterday by unveiling a plan to move goods off the roads and on to the rail network.

But it immediately ran into a clash with rival Asda over claims the switch would make Tesco “the first UK retailer to move significant volumes from road to rail”.

Wal-Mart-owned Asda has been transporting goods from south coast ports to northern depots by train since 2003 and accused Tesco of “recycling our old news”.

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Kazakh oil pours into China through pipeline

Crude oil from Kazakhstan poured into China on the morning of May 25 through a crossborder pipeline that is designed to transmit 20 million tons of oil a year, 15% of China’s total crude oil imports for 2005. This was the first time in history imported oil has been directly pipelined into China, and experts […]

U.S.-Saudi: more than oil

The United States has maintained a close relationship with Saudi Arabia for almost 60 years but, contrary to popular belief, the relationship has not been simply about oil, according to a recently released book by a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. ‘No relationship is as important, as under pressure and as poorly […]

Climate forces Inuit onto thin ice

In the remote Arctic village of Puvirnituq, in Northern Quebec, just south of Baffin Island, they know a good deal more than most about global warming. After thousands of years on the ice they are closely allied to their environment and notice even small changes. In April they experienced temperatures normal for June, and visiting […]

Philosopher Guides Norway’s Oil Rich Spending Habits

Norway claims one of the highest incomes in the world, yet the country maintains a rather frugal spending habit. A country the size of New Mexico, Norway has become the world’s third-largest oil exporter, thanks to its North Sea wells. One of its most productive offshore oil rigs contains a single platform that is making […]

Biofuel technology may be transferred to Central American countries

Brazilian technology in the biofuel sector is one of the topRadiobras

Concern over Labour cash gifts from nuclear industry

Labour has received thousands of pounds in donations from energy companies and lobbying firms linked to the nuclear industry. The cash donations give the pro-nuclear lobby access to decision makers, campaigners for the environment warned. Details published by the Electoral Commission showed that the money from nuclear interests flooded in as the government prepared for […]

Oil-driven revolutionaries

As the price of petrol rises, the way in which our lives have changed extends far beyond whether we’ll walk or drive to the shops, write Tim Dick, Sherrill Nixon and Jordan Baker. Petrol is changing the way we live. It’s no sudden revolution, and the change won’t be over by next week, but indicators […]

Iran plays China card with Japan on oil deal

The contract Japanese oil developers signed in 2004 to tap Iran’s giant Azadegan oil field could be terminated in September with no major progress in the project, and Iran may strike a new deal with energy-hungry China. The oil field in Azadegan, southwestern Iran, is one of the world’s largest, estimated to contain 26 billion […]

UN nuclear head fears new cold war

The world could be pushed back to the brink of destruction, as during the height of the cold war, due to the spread of nuclear technology, the head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has said. Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, warned that the former US president John F Kennedy’s prediction […]

China’s future energy demand to rely on domestic supply: official

Zhang Guobao, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) revealed on Thursday that there is a huge potential for domestic energy supply from the perspective of future development, and thus China can meet its future energy demand mainly through its domestic supply. Although China has abundant coal resources, its proven coal reserves […]

Peak-oil theory and its development implications

Denying the idea that Middle East oilfields are getting old and might soon go into decline has become an article of faith in local oil circles. But re-reading the controversial main text of the peak-oil theorists should perhaps be required by regional economic planners. The most controversial book of the decade concerning the Middle East […]

Huge gas reserves found in Rajasthan

High quality reserves of natural gas Shahgarh has been discovered in the sub-basin of Jaisalmer district in Rajasthan, it was announced Wednesday. Gas was discovered in Focus Energy’s exploration block, around 25 km from the Pakistan border, in the same stratigraphic area as the one producing multi-trillion cubic feet fields of Sawan and Miano. Focus […]

Military focuses on energy

Over at the DefenseTech blog, Noah Shachtman muses on the military’s need to wean itself off oil, reacting to comments by Jim Woolsey (PDF). Among other things, he flags the new issue of Defense Technology International (interesting website, though horrendous usability-wise), which is titled “The Military and the End of Oil.” It’s got pieces on […]

The local energy revolution

As a result, everyone misses the point. Energy policy is dominated by a debate over whether we should replace nuclear’s 4% share of supply. It’s time to think bigger than that. Or, rather, we ought to be thinking small – because the technologies that could really solve our energy problems are at the opposite end […]

The All Energy Show

Aberdeen, already the capital of the UKcarbonfree

Solar Hybrid Vehicles

Hybrid vehicles with solar photovoltaic (PV) panels should be part of the solution to America energypulse

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