That sinking feeling

The disastrous flooding that overwhelmed New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina highlighted the vulnerability of low-lying coastal cities around the world. A predicted global sea-level rise of up to 88 centimetres over the next century, due to climate change, would put many major cities at risk. Around the world, massive public projects such as the Maeslant […]

BBC man’s wife leads objectors to Conservative leader’s plans

U.K. – With his green credentials and a new brand of caring Conservatism, David Cameron has attempted to bring the winds of change to UK politics. The Tory leader has been plunged into an embarrassing local council planning dispute by the wife of one of BBC Radio Four’s best-known voices. At issue is the extensive […]

Up to Speed: Off-roaders defy knockers

U.K. – Sales of 4×4s and luxury saloons have continued to rise despite high fuel prices, increased road tax and concerns about the environment. Off-roaders made up 7.6% of new car sales in the first five months of the year, compared with 7.2% in the same period of 2005. The bestselling luxury petrol 4×4 was […]

Not all’s rosy for ethanol production

A multi-billion dollar infrastructure of specialized refineries, pipelines and service stations would have to be built if we get serious about ethanol-blended gasolines. (Consider the effect on the environment if that infrastructure were to be put in place.) Prices for meat and poultry will rise in tandem with increased corn-feed costs as the over-supply of […]

Output glut may weigh on costly investment: Attiyah

Oil producers are becoming concerned that a glut of new production capacity could depress prices and undermine costly investments in new fields, Qatar’s Second Deputy Premier and Energy and Industry Minister HE Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah said. More than 2mn bpd of unused production capacity can be tapped to replace supplies lost by a hurricane […]

FUEL OF THE FUTURE.. SO WHY CAN’T WE BUY IT?

Planet Earth is under threat -and that’s an understatement. The world’s heating up, the ice caps are melting and by 2026 the human race may have to move to the Moon to survive. Yet here comes some startling news. I have found the answer to saving the planet. And the Government doesn’t seem to give […]

Our Future(s)

At the Dynamic Cities Project we’ve been working to fill the niche between peak oil advocacy groups and the mainstream planning/design/development crowd. Central to this effort is a desire to shape an inclusive dialogue that embraces multiple visions of the future – while making transparent the assumptions implicit in those visions. The Powerpoint presentation on […]

Cubans cheer promise of blackout-free summer

Cuba’s sweltering, mosquito-plagued summers have not been kind to its 11m inhabitants since the Soviet Union’s demise. For 15 years, daily power outages left homes in the dark and without fans to battle the heat and insects, while vacationing youths made do for hours without television or music and water pumps went idle. But in […]

Make love, save energy – Sri Lankans turn off their lights

Sri Lankans have been urged to crawl under the sheets early, turn up the heat on air-conditioners and give up late night football to save energy…..or not. “We are requesting that everyone finish their work and their entertainment – whatever that entertainment may be, before 10.00 pm,” John Seneviratne, Sri Lanka’s Minister of Power and […]

The real threat to energy security of Europe

Is there any real threat to the energy security of Europe? Yes. Does that threat emanate from the Central Asian governments? No. Energy security of Europe is a matter that demands immediate and serious attention. The first thing to do is to identify some of the threats to the supply of energy resources to Europe.News […]

Palm oil ready to back biodiesel drive

Indonesia’s State Minister for Research and Technology Kusmayanto Kadiman said recently that state power company PLN alone needed 12 million kiloliters of diesel fuel per year. “If 5 percent of the PLN’s need is fulfilled by biodiesel then we need four million hectares of palm plantations,” he said recently. Besides for electricity, diesel fuel is […]

Soaring oil prices hurt Thai industry

Thailand’s Ministry of Industry is preparing measures to assist operators of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to survive, as oil prices are expected to continue rising during the third and fourth quarters of this year, a senior ministry official said Sunday. Ministry of Industry permanent-secretary Chakramon Phasukavanich said that global oil prices had now reached […]

Natural gas: a cure for oil’s still-lofty prices?

Natural gas competes in some of the same markets as oil,” said James Williams, an economist at WTRG Economics. That’s “particularly true in the power-generation market where many facilities can switch between natural gas and fuel oil.” Natural-gas futures have dropped around 60% from their record level of $15.78 per million British thermal units back […]

Peak Oil Passnotes: The Oil Wave Ripples

The U.S. and European markets have taken hits of anywhere from 9-12% it is true. But they did relatively well. In contrast India resourceinvestor

Gas fuels new cold war in the Arctic

ON A small island off the coast of the world’s most northerly town, workers are putting the finishing touches to a vast structure that will transform the politics of the Arctic. Soon gas will flow from nearly 100 miles out at sea, and the great rush to exploit virgin territory that is estimated to contain […]

60+ Groups, Businesses Urge US Senate to Restore Geothermal Energy Funding

In a letter delivered today to the Members of the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Appropriations, more than sixty businesses, environmental, consumer, and energy policy organizations called for the restoration of funding for the federal geothermal energy research and development program. Also signing the letter were four dozen individuals, including many active in geothermal energy projects. […]

Technology that holds the key to world’s demand for power

A small company in Cambridgeshire called ITM Power is probably a world leader in electrolyser technology; it may also be the world leader in fuel cell technology, too. It has developed a method which in commercial production will make both electrolysers and fuel cells economic. It has already demonstrated that this technology has good longevity. […]

Egypt’s gas supply could last 70 years

The Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reports that international studies showed that Egypt’s natural gas reserves, estimated at 67 trillion cubic feet, could last up to 70 years, said Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmy. In a statement published today, Fahmy said according to studies, reports, and activities performed by foreign oil companies working in Egypt, […]

Ethanol hot with IPO investors

Ethanol may be rarity in Americans dailytimes

Formula One Racing Headed to Hybrids

Last week, Max Moseley, the head of the FIA (the organization that governs world Formula One racing) described in a press conference the organization greencarcongress

BP announces $500 million biofuels research center

BP plans to make a major investment in alternative energy sources, funding “radical research” at a new bioscience energy research lab. Outlining a ten-year program costing $500 million, BP chief executive Lord Browne said Wednesday that the company plans to site the lab at a major academic center in the U.S. or the U.K., with […]

Popular Science Does Alternative Energy

Popular Science has put together a special segment on energy alternatives, subtitled “10 Steps To End America treehugger

CERA: Global Products to Remain Tight Through 2007

Oil & Gas Journal – Disruptions to supplies of gasoline, diesel fuel, and light products, associated in part with changes in fuel quality standards, will keep oil markets tight and prices high during the next 2 years, Cambridge Energy Research Associates forecast in a report issued June 6. “Incremental additions to refining capacity over the […]

Solar Power ‘Ideal for Gulf’

Trade Arabia – The GCC countries like the idea of standing atop a sea of oil, and the proposal to introduce renewable energy (including solar and wind power) to the GCC might appear as logical as carrying coals to Newcastle. But a closer look shows that solar power could complement the energy mix of the […]

We Are Cutting Energy Use – But It Is Dirtier

Telegraph – How fast is global energy use growing? Is climate change getting worse? And will we face a worldwide oil shortage soon? These questions, and more, were addressed at last week’s launch of BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy… Perhaps the biggest long-term concern is that the oil will simply run out – with […]

UGANDA: Budget sorts power crisis

…The east African nation has suffered crippling electricity shortages for months. Residents in the capital Kampala receive power for just 24 of every 48 hours and almost every business has been forced to run costly, diesel-powered generators. Under pressure to end the blackouts as quickly as possible, Suruma said the government had set aside sh202b […]

The Oil Drum: An Attempt to Apply The Parabolic Fractal Law to Saudi Arabia

Many natural object geometry are well described by a fractal (e.g. a coastline). In particular, fractal self-similarity is a powerful concept that has been investigated by BenoI believe that the PFL could be a complementary tool to analyze production data under a different angle especially when the Hubbert Linearization technique does not produce a clear […]

No ‘Secrets,’ Just Scams

Rob Durham had a secret — or at least he thought he did. Even as the prices on gasoline station signs had begun to rise, Durham, a real estate agent and budding entrepreneur in suburban Chicago, received an e-mail from a friend telling him about a “top-secret gas pill” that could significantly boost fuel efficiency […]

Salad with a side of fuel?

Despite what people may think about the soaring gas prices and rising taxes in this country, Americans enjoy a prosperity completely unknown to most of the world. We are a nation of consumers, which drives business, which drives . . . consumers. Most of us take our good fortune for granted, particularly the food we […]

Energy policy in Cuba: an option for poor countries

The current energy “climate” seems to be on the verge of a crisis that is shown by the poor offers of oil and reflected in the high prices of the crude today, unpayable by most countries. This is a crisis that could become a shortage of “black gold” worldwide. Poor countries and even those modestly […]

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