Russia Ready to Be Europe

Russia is ready to assume a leadership role in providing Europe with oil and gas, but it won mosnews

W2 Energy Inc. Issues Letter of Intent to Build Plant in New Zealand

The W2 Energy GAT reactor breaks down biomass or coal using the chemical energy stored in the biomass itself; the plasma acts as a high temperature catalyst. Unlike typical plasma reactors that utilize convection of the intense heat produced by the plasma, our GAT reactor can amazingly produce enough Syngas (H2, CO) to feed a […]

Vast wind farm proposed

In a proposal that would dramatically change the appearance of Buzzards Bay, a Boston developer wants to build a $750 million offshore wind farm comprised of 90 to 120 turbines in the ecologically sensitive waterway. Windmills 407 feet high would be planted in three areas of the bay if Patriot Renewables LLC southcoasttoday

Ultracapacitors: The Next Big Energy Storage Technology of the Decade

In comparison, ultracapacitors are a powerful energy source, where power surge requirements have to be met, and have already found immense use in consumer electronics such as mobile phones and PDAs. Among the other potential application sectors, UPS applications, renewable energy systems such as windmills, and other industrial equipment are also fast realizing the need […]

Solar energy harvested on the moon would be sent back to Earth

Criswell’s vision calls for establishing lunar mining camps populated with human prospectors who would work six-month shifts building and operating the gear that harvests solar power and sends it streaming 240,000 miles back to Earth. They would fly to the moon with the equipment they need and use raw materials already on the moon to […]

Experts Predict End of Oil Boom in Russia

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released research on the state presence in the fuel and energy complex in CIS countries last week, claiming that the share of Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan in the world growth of oil supply shrank to 30-35 percent by 2005, compared to 60 percent between 1984 […]

Big deficit in Thailand tied to oil

Thailand posted its biggest trade deficit in 10 months in April, the government said Monday, as surging crude oil prices increased the country’s bill for imports. Thailand is relying on increased exports to spur growth as rising fuel costs, higher interest rates and a political crisis hurt domestic consumption. The government has also curbed imports […]

Putin’s goal on energy ‘may be more tension’

Heightened tension may be the goal of President Putin’s energy policy, a former top Kremlin economic adviser said yesterday as he gave warning that the Russian Government may be seeking to derail July’s G8 summit in St Petersburg even before the leaders gather in the historic city. Andrei Illarionov, in an interview with The Times, […]

BP Expects Solar Sales to Jump in Japan, China, Korea

BP Plc, the world’s third-biggest maker of solar cells, expects Asian sales to accelerate as 1 billion people seek access to electricity and developed nations such as Japan target lower fuel imports. Sales in the Asian market may grow 50 percent a year by 2016, from a maximum of 30 percent now, driven by increased […]

Kiev asks west to press Russia on gas

Ukraine has urged the US and the European Union to help safeguard Russian gas supplies to Ukraine and other eastern European states at the Group of Eight summit in St Petersburg in July. Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the economy minister, told the Financial Times in an interview that the security of Ukraine’s energy supplies was a matter […]

Ethanol’s Demand for Corn May Trim US Meat Output

The ethanol market’s hunger for corn has driven up corn prices and livestock analysts believe if corn prices continue rising, US cattle, hog, and chicken producers will cut production and that could trim meat supplies and possibly mean higher meat prices in 2007 or later. “The whole ag industry is starting to become aware of […]

Tanzania: Local Restaurants Claim to Bear Burden of Inflation

Arusha residents are annoyed by unscrupulous traders who increase food prices under the excuse of escalating world fuel prices The Majority of Arusha municipality residents who were interviewed said the current food prices are artificial. The types of food whose prices have been hiked have no link with the recent global fuel price hike, they […]

Unending Power Outages Take Toll On Ordinary Nigerians

The incessant power outages currently rocking the length and breadth of the country maker no longer news to the average man. But what might be news is the huge financial hole it has dug and is still digging in the purses of small scale businesses and artisans around the country. “The power situation is why […]

Distributed Energy Utilities – It’s All About Financing

Many small-scale renewable energy systems have pay-back times of ten years or less. Putting a solar hot water system on your rooftop should be a no-brainer in most geographic zones. So why don’t more people invest in distributed energy? The answer: the lack of attractive financing options is the main reason why they are not […]

China bets big on coal-to-oil projects

To ease its increasing thirst for oil, China is throwing tens of billions of yuan into so-called coal-to-liquid (CTL) projects, which permit the conversion of coal into a liquid fuel that can substitute for crude-oil derivatives in many applications. If successful, this move has the potential to shake up the current energy markets greatly at […]

A post-peak vision for local planning

The biggest change since last summer is that Gilbert considers the energy situation to be much more dire than he had previously thought. Last year, he considered $4.00 a litre gasoline in 25 years to be a pessimistic scenario; today, he considers it optimistic. In fact, comparing project growth in demand with the best evidence […]

Feedback Loops In Global Climate Change Point To A Very Hot 21st Century

Studies have shown that global climate change can set-off positive feedback loops in nature which amplify warming and cooling trends. Now, researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley have been able to quantify the feedback implied by past increases in natural carbon dioxide and methane gas […]

Research Highlights How Bacteria Produce Energy

The world’s smallest life forms could be the answer to one of today’s biggest problems: providing sustainable, renewable energy for the future. Using a variety of natural food sources, bacteria can be used to create electricity, produce alternative fuels like ethanol and even boost the output of existing oil wells, according to research being presented […]

The Human Ecological Footprint

In 1972 there was still time to achieve a major course correction in the human journey. That opportunity is no longer available. Several studies confirm that the human ecological footprint now exceeds the regenerative carrying capacity of the planet, and our civilization is rapidly approaching a discontinuity unprecedented in history. It is hoped by some […]

Shell reaps $1.2b, blames oil speculators

SHELL Australia believes record petrol prices are here to stay because of speculators and traders in “paper barrels” of oil aggravating real-world price increases flowing from the structural increase in global demand caused by the booming economies of China and India. Recently installed chairman and a 38-year veteran of the company, Russell Caplan, made the […]

Petrol prices hit car sales

RECORD petrol prices are forcing Sydney motorists to drive less, buy fewer cars and switch away from four-wheel-drive vehicles. New figures also show traffic volumes appear to have fallen, raising questions about the profitability of privately owned motorways. Fewer 4WDs were sold in NSW last month than in any month for three years, while car […]

Cost Per Mile Driven Triples to 15 Cents Per Mile

According to calculations done at gasopia.com, the cost of driving one mile in a car that gets 20 miles per gallon has more than tripled in the last 7 years from 4.45 cents to 15 cents per mile.

Early New Field Production Est. Could Assist in Quantifying Supply Trends

From EnergyBulletin.net, referring to Oil & Gas Journal article – The article uses the “Hubbert Linearization” logistic technique to estimate peak production from a group of oil fields currently being developed. However, the kicker is toward the end of the article, where the author provides his logistic based reserve estimates for the world and for […]

Official: Mexico to Maintain Oil Output

BusinessWeek – Mexico’s state-owned oil monopoly should maintain its crude-oil production levels in the next few years, despite a decline at its main oil-producing field, the energy minister said Monday… Output at Cantarell, which produced just over 2 million barrels a day of heavy crude last year, is expected to decline to at least 1.9 […]

Oil Bounces as Venezuela Talks OPEC Cut

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil rose sharply on Monday after Venezuela said swelling global inventories justify an OPEC cut at the group’s meeting next week and the U.S. government predicted another busy hurricane season that could threaten rigs and refineries. The bounce in crude prices came after a steep sell-off across the commodities sector over […]

Ethanol-Powered Car Ranks Top in Fuel-Efficiency at Shell Eco-Marathon

An ethanol-powered car has achieved the best fuel efficiency at the just-concluded Shell Eco-marathon 2006. The car, engineered by students from the Lycee La Joliverie (France) also took the GreenCarCongress.

The Great Iraq Oil Grab

New Yorker’s Jane Mayer reported on a top secret National Security Council document dating back seven months before the terror attacks that gave some insight into the vice president’s thinking: It directed the N.S.C. staff to cooperate fully with [Cheney’s secretive] Energy Task Force as it considered the “melding” of two seemingly unrelated areas of […]

Shifting Gears

As more Angelenos ditch their cars, the city is opening bike lanes, companies are holding cycling seminars and federal officials are pushing for tax incentives. WHEN Robert Petersen bought his bike a few months back, he hadn’t ridden for two decades and didn’t know if he would be able to stay upright. He was so […]

RTS starts trading in ruble oil and gold contracts

The Russian Trading System Stock Exchange (RTS) starts trading in contracts for oil and petroleum products on June 8, 2006, the stock exchange said on Monday. Cash-settled futures and options on Urals oil, diesel oil, aviation oil and black oil will be traded on FORTS (Futures&Options on RTS). Trading in gold contracts will also begin […]

Nuclear fusion plasma problem tackled

Nuclear fusion could become a more viable energy solution with the discovery of way to prevent super-hot gases from causing damage within reactors.

The potential solution, tested at an experimental reactor in San Diego, US, could make the next generation of fusion reactors more efficient, saving hundreds of millions of euros a year. It could be incorporated into the latest prototype fusion station

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