China struggling to reduce energy consumption

While China’s GDP growth continues at around 10 percent this year, the country is striving to reduce its energy consumption.However, considering the current economic situation, the goal of reducing energy consumption by four percent this year does not look like being reached easily unless China makes great changes in its macro-economic policy,” said Zhou Dadi, […]

Worldwide push for wind power whips up huge currents

At the end of 2005, the world’s nations had added some 11,300 megawatts (MW) of installed wind power capacity, reaching 59,000 MW (59 Gigawatts/GW), according to the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) based in Bonn, Germany. Europe continues to be the heavyweight in the wind power field, with a total of 40.9 GW installed capacity […]

Interactive Mapping of Alternative Fuel Stations across the US

I am writing to let persons interested in alternative fuels know that MapMuse.com has recently introduced interactive mapping of alternative fuel stations. theautochannel

German Geothermal Project

Alte Fide currently possesses all necessary permits and licenses with land owners, local and federal government bodies to explore for, develop, construct and operate geothermal power stations in designated parts of the Hagenbach area. The key license was granted October 1, 2005. Alte Fide estimates it will cost 4 million Euros to locate and delineate […]

Energy ministers of 5 states signed agreement on Caspian Sea gas

Bulgaria and Romania will participate in transference of Caspian Sea gas to Europe. The volume of the project is about 4,6 billion Euro. 5 firms today

Indonesia, Malaysia Look to Biodiesel Amid High Oil Prices

M&C News – Faced with soaring oil prices, Indonesia and Malaysia are turning to biodiesel, a fuel that cuts regular diesel with vegetable oil, to reduce emissions and costly subsidies. Indonesia has long searched for ways to reduce air pollution in Jakarta, one of the dirtiest cities in the world, and the government last month […]

Oil may fuel Sino-US conflict

China’s quest for oil in the Middle East is threatening US energy and security interests in the region and increasing the risk of a conflict between both nations, analysts say. Flynt Leverett, senior fellow at the New York-based Saban Centre for Middle East Policy, told Aljazeera.net: “There aljazeera

House votes to end 25-year offshore drilling ban

Measure passes by wide margin; billMSNBC

Ethanol prices at record high

U.S. ethanol prices extended a surge to an all-time high of $3.67/gallon last week as fuel companies increased demand for the grain-based additive for gasoline, according to a Bloomberg survey of ethanol producers, oil refiners and fuel blenders. The Bloomberg national average is based on ethanol traded in almost 30 other Midwest locations and is […]

Lighting the key to energy saving

A global switch to efficient lighting systems would trim the world’s electricity bill by nearly one-tenth. That is the conclusion of a study from the International Energy Agency (IEA), which it says is the first global survey of lighting uses and costs. For the individual, the most obvious switch to make is from incandescent bulbs […]

Senate and House Actions Restore Geothermal Research Program

Both Senate and House Committees took action to restore funding for the Department of Energy’s geothermal research program, which the Administration’s budget had proposed to close. The Senate Energy and Water Subcommittee voted to restore full funding for the DOE geothermal research program in FY 2007, which now provides $22.5 million for geothermal research, similar […]

New process of production of fuels/plastics from sugar

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed an efficient process to make a chemical intermediate called HMF (hydroxymethylfurfural) from fructose from biomass. HMF can be converted into plastics, petroleum or diesel fuel extenders, or even into diesel fuel itself. greencarcongress

Shell Hydrogen announces plans to create world’s largest hydrogen transport

Shell Hydrogen B.V., in partnership with Connexxion Holding N.V. and MAN Truck & Bus Company N.V., today announced plans to work towards creating the worldfuelcellsworks

Argentina Agrees to Pay Bolivia 47 Percent More for Natural Gas

June 29 (Bloomberg) — Argentina agreed to pay Bolivia 47 percent more for its natural gas as Bolivian President Evo Morales, who seized his country’s gas supplies two months ago, fulfills a campaign pledge to boost oil and gas revenue. Argentina, after a meeting between Morales and Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, agreed to pay $5 […]

Sustainable Research Agency Launches

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EDP24 Business (UK) – The director of a research agency that focuses solely on sustainable development says he is staggered at the positive response to his new venture. Onearth claims to be the first agency of its kind to deal only with organisations committed to creating a more sustainable future. Steven Colling – the founding […]

VCs Bet on Solar, Biofuel Money-Losers in Green Energy Frenzy

(Bloomberg) — SolFocus sounds like a typical Silicon Valley startup: Eight employees, big ideas — and zero profit. Yet in mid-May, the phones at the eight-month-old company wouldn’t stop ringing. The callers were venture capitalists, and they were dangling millions of dollars in front of the Palo Alto, California-based solar panel maker. Ty Jagerson, vice […]

Oil May Fuel Sino-US Conflict

Aljazeera.Net – China’s quest for oil in the Middle East is threatening US energy and security interests in the region and increasing the risk of a conflict between both nations, analysts say. Flynt Leverett, senior fellow at the New York-based Saban Centre for Middle East Policy, told Aljazeera.net: “ThereAljazeera.Net

The Oil Drum: An echoing Shhh, or EVEN MORE on mining of oil shale

So, there we have all this oil, sitting in these nice thick oil shale beds out West and just waiting to turn some local in Colorado into the next “world’s richest person”. All they have to do is to figure out how to get the oil out of the ground cheaply enough to make money […]

Eight reasons pump prices may move higher

Strong demand, tight supplies, bad weather could bring more pump pain With gas prices holding steady Pump prices typically head higher between July 4th and Labor Day, as an armada of RVs and fully loaded SUVs roll out across the country for the peak vacation season. That increased demand puts upward pressure on gasoline prices. […]

Smart car is cool, but may fall short

Smart ForTwo get great gas mileage without a hybrid’s expense but there are trade-offs. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — DaimlerChrysler will begin selling a redesigned version of the company’s Smart ForTwo in the United States beginning in early 2008, according to the company. But it will be a tough sell: It’s price is higher than other […]

Oil price rises on high demand

Drop in gasoline and crude inventories reinforces investor concerns about summer fuel supplies. SINGAPORE (Reuters) — Oil climbed further above $72 on Thursday after falls in U.S. crude and gasoline inventories underlined worries over summer fuel supplies in the world’s top consumer. U.S. crude was up 27 cents at $72.46 a barrel, adding to gains […]

Nuclear Power Is Heating Up Again

Interest in adding new nuclear power plants to U.S. electric generation capacity has gained considerable momentum in the past year. The last nuclear plant was ordered more than 30 years ago, in 1973. But several factors have combined to generate a clear resurgence of interest in adding new nuclear capacity. Interest ranges across an array […]

Uganda: Solutions to the Electricity Crisis

It is hard to be a civil servant and worse if you are an energy officer in this country. Load-shedding has subjected us to listening to bitter complaints, insults and accusations of an incompetent government. This to me, as an energy officer, means everybody hates load-shedding and I do agree that load-shedding is the worst […]

America the Dangerous?

Activist and financier George Soros on the global energy crisis and why he thinks the United States has become an obstacle to a stable and just world. …We are facing a global energy crisis which is very complex because it has many ingredients, starting with global warming and the peaking of oil discoveries. And there’s […]

Fission Impossible

Fear not, nuke binge will be a no-go due to skyrocketing uranium prices CANADA – The Ontario Government is vain enough to think it has made a decision to go nuclear. But let’s get something straight. The only decision it can really control is the one to spend up to $40 bil to build and […]

Ending energy dependence

When the House of Representatives votes tomorrow on the bipartisan Domestic Ocean Energy Resources (DOER) Act, it will be considering one of the nation’s most meaningful energy-policy reforms in history. Decades of “just say ‘no’” energy policy has turned America into a country too dependent on foreign, and often unstable, sources of energy. We send […]

Half of global car exhaust produced by US vehicles

Americans represent 5% of the world’s population but drive almost a third of its cars, which in turn account for nearly half the carbon dioxide pumped out of exhaust pipes into the atmosphere each year, according to a report. United States cars play a disproportionate role in global warming because they are less fuel efficient […]

BP unit charged with price manipulation

Traders allegedly illegally influenced the price of propane in 2004 WASHINGTON – Detailed allegations by federal investigators that BP traders illegally manipulated propane prices in 2004 could hurt the oil and gas industry

U.S. interstate system marks 50 years today

The USA a half-century ago was a place where people seldom ventured far from home. When they did, they drove on narrow, two-lane roads that moved people and goods slowly. With the stroke of a pen 50 years ago today, President Eisenhower began to change all that. He launched the interstate highway system, a giant […]

As Asphalt Prices Rise, Massachusetts Roads Crumble

Drivers may cringe when they pull up to the pumps this summer to fill up their cars, but highway officials are sharing the pain. Towns across the state are likely to spend a lot more in the coming year to pave and repair public roads as the price of asphalt, which like gasoline is made […]

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