Westport Innovations and Beijing Tianhai Industry Co. Form LNG

Westport Innovations and Beijing Tianhai Industry Co. have formed a 50:50 owned, independent joint venture company greencarcongress

MEGA CITY EV Debuts in London

MEGA, part of the AIXAM-MEGA Group, has launched its new electric city cargreencarcongress

Austin an epicenter for biodiesel sales

It’s become the fastest growing alternative to fuel in the country, and Austin now has the biggest concentration of biodiesel retailers in the nation. The National Biodiesel Board Friday also announced that Austin sells more biodiesel than any other city in the nation. Texas is home to 12 biodiesel plants, capable of producing 96 million […]

A new kind of money

The decline in the availability of cheap energy is likely to be accompanied by an equally ominous possibility of world financial meltdown. That we are facing both of these threats now is not an accident: energy and financial stability are intimately linked. I believe the solutions for dealing with these twinned threats are equally linked. […]

More Powerful Fuel Cells Get Closer To Market

High-temperature fuel cells promise clean, efficient energy in quantities large enough to power cities. But, so far, they’ve been too expensive for widespread use. One major problem is the sulfur in fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas, which contaminates the hydrogen gas that runs the cells. The sulfur attacks and degrades a […]

SDG&E calls for more renewable energy deals

San Diego Gas & Electric (News) announced Friday it asked electricity suppliers for offers to provide more renewable energy. SDG&E said it has been aggressively contracting for resources such as wind, solar, biomass and geothermal, so that the utility can supply 20 percent of its customers’ power from green resources by 2010. yahoo

Valero to lose 1.3 million barrels in lost-refining capacity

Valero Energy Corp. has shut down the company’s fluid catalytic cracking unit at its St. Charles refinery in Louisiana for needed repairs. Valero spokeswoman Mary Rose Brown says the repairs should take 20 days to complete. This will result in a loss of gasoline production of 65,000 barrels per day or 1.3 million barrels. Refinery […]

Drivers’ love of the road grows costly

ST. LEON, Indiana (Reuters) – Indiana bills itself as “The Crossroads of America” but with gasoline topping $3 a gallon, few here are celebrating their relationship with the road. “High prices affect people out here more than in the city,” Jeff Finck, 53, said as he fueled his Chevrolet Suburban at an Exxon station near […]

A new kind of money

Today’s money is based on the belief that it’s worth something. Crazy, no? Why not back your dollar in sustainable energy produced in your hometown? The decline in the availability of cheap energy is likely to be accompanied by an equally ominous possibility of world financial meltdown. That we are facing both of these threats […]

Storm halts refining at ConocoPhillips in Hartford

Power outages following last night’s storms shut down oil refining at the ConnocoPhillips plant in Hartford. On a normal day, the 10th busiest such plant in the nation refines 306,000 barrels of crude into gasoline, jet fuel, diesel, propane and other products that it ships by pipeline to St. Louis, Chicago and Indianopolis. Not a […]

The Oil Drum: The Energy Issue and Bush’s Presidential Approval Numbers

I found a very interesting poll by Pew yesterday that I thought I should bring you. Pew was doing a piece on the impacts of An Inconvenient Truth on the global warming attitudes–a major focus of the poll, but there’s some things to chew on in there regarding energy policy attitudes as well. I discuss […]

Saudi Arabia’s oil a huge question

From the Saudi Arabian sands pour more than 9 million barrels of crude oil each day, more than 10 percent of the world’s production pumped from what is believed to be the largest pool of recoverable crude on Earth. For three decades, it has been Saudi Arabian oil that poured into the market to dampen […]

Go green, Government tells supermarket bosses

Environment secretary David Miliband yesterday summoned bosses from the big four supermarkets to demand they work harder to make their businesses more environmentally friendly. The meeting, at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, was attended by Sir Ken Morrison, chairman of Wm Morrison; Justin King, chief executive of J Sainsbury; David Cheesewright, Asda […]

Split reaction to scrapping of toll road plan

The government has scrapped plans for a Initial work suggested that building the toll road would be the fastest solution. Enthusiasts also argued the new route would prevent work from disrupting traffic on the existing route. The Guardian

Students hop on planes to save the planet

YOUNG people may claim they want to save the planet, but they are determined to see it first. Those aged 15 to 24 are more likely than any other age group to oppose restrictions on air travel, the fastest growing contributor to climate change. Despite being better schooled in environmental issues than previous generations, they […]

CNOOC, Shell to expand joint capacity

(China Daily, Jul 21, 2006) CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Co Ltd, China’s biggest Sino-foreign partnership deal, plans to expand its current capacity by 10 to 20 per cent within the next four years, to meet surging domestic demand. The US$4.3 billion joint project, launched in March between Royal Dutch Shell and China’s biggest offshore oil […]

UN Agency Predicts Sharp Decline in World Cereal Stocks

World cereal stocks are expected to decline sharply in 2006, due to a slight decrease in global cereal output and significant growth in utilization, according to the latest forecast by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, which predicted that food emergencies will continue in a number of countries.Increased demand is expected to be driven […]

China to need more jumbo oil tankers over next five years

China will needs 40 to 50 additional jumbo oil tankers over the next five years due to the increase in the country’s crude oil imports and exports, an industrial insider said on Thursday.China’s ship-building capacity will quadruple by 2015, even becoming the largest in the world.People’s Daily

Undersea gas could speed global warming – study

If the world continues to get warmer, vast amounts of methane gas trapped in ice under the sea could belch up and worsen climate change, according to a study. “We may have less time than we think to do something (about the prospect of global warming),” Dr. Ira Leifer, a marine scientist at University of […]

Green Energy, Part 2: Ethanol and Biodiesel

Each biofuel, be it ethanol, biodiesel or vegetable oil, has its particular advantages and disadvantages, as well as proponents and detractors. However, ethanol and biodiesel, or biofuels in general for that matter, may not be the best choice in terms of the possible alternative renewable fuels available, certainly for every purpose or in terms of […]

Malaysia – Indonesia Set Palm for Fuel, Market Soars

The world’s top palm-oil producers, Malaysia and Indonesia, have decided to set aside nearly 40 percent of their crude palm oil output for biodiesel production, Malaysia’s commodities ministry said on Thursday.Industry analysts said the move could further boost edible-oil prices, making it expensive for both food and energy users to buy vegetable oils. “Palm oil […]

Peak Oil Passnotes: Yo! Bombs!

The highlight of an otherwise grim week was the debate between two moronic men in Russia. George Bush and Tony Blair. Their concern over world events was obvious to see as Blair simpered, behind a burger-munching buffoon in charge of the largest army in the world. Blair gave him jumpers in a heatwave. Their grasp […]

Scholar to give talk on curbing U.S. oil addiction

Americans spend $800 million a day on 20 million barrels of oil, but a leading scholar says there are ways to break that habit. Christopher Flavin of the Worldwatch Institute, an independent environmental-research organization, is scheduled to speak this evening to the Santa Fe Council on International Relations about “American Energy: Breaking Our Addiction to […]

A subtle shift

BEN Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, is having a hard time of it. He was never going to look marvellous in the wake of his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, who had attained the status of demigod. But throw in erratic US data, a Middle East crisis, deficits, housing bubbles, presidents mouthing off on national […]

China Seeks Oil Security with Stake in Russia Firm

China’s biggest oil company said Wednesday that a $500 million stake it had bought in the newly listed Russian petroleum giant, Rosneft, would help its efforts to secure energy for the Chinese market. The state-owned China National Petroleum said in a statement published on its Web site that the investment would build on earlier agreements […]

Spanish firm claims it can make oil from plankton

Spanish company claimed on Thursday to have developed a method of breeding plankton and turning the marine plants into oil, providing a potentially inexhaustible source of clean fuel. Vehicle tests are some time away because the company, Bio Fuel Systems, has not yet tried refining the dark green coloured crude oil phytoplankton turn into, a […]

China oil production rises 2 percent

China produced more than 91 million tons of crude oil, a rise of 2.1 percent from last year, the country’s lead petroleum company said Thursday. China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association said that output of refined oil products went up 5.6 percent to 84.82 million tons, state-run news agency Xinhua reported. upi

‘Sign Kyoto Protocol’ Gorbachev says

FORMER Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev says it is important that Australia and the United States sign up to the Kyoto Protocol. Mr Gorbachev is in Brisbane to co-chair the global forum Earth Dialogues, which will feature leading international experts on the environment, economics and science over the next three days. theadvertiser

DaimlerChrysler Announces First Corporate Partners for smart ev

DaimlerChrysler UK announced the first four corporate partners for the market trial of the all-electric smart ev. In addition, the company announced that it is working on mitigation and offset plans through which all carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated through the production process and the logistics chain of the smart ev will be measured, reduced […]

Hyundai breaks through on fuel cell technology

The latest vehicle powered by fuel cell technology from Hyundai represents a break through for the technology. The Tucson exceeds its manufacturerscoop

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