One Ring to Rule Them

…I’ve had a message from a European reader that leads me to consider a Peak Oil Theory of the US-Israeli war on Lebanon (and by proxy on Iran). I say, “consider” the “theory” because this is a thought experiment. I put it on the table to see if it can be knocked down, the way […]

Cape Town signs wind power deal

The city of Cape Town has signed a deal to buy wind-generated electricity, in what is set to be South Africa’s first fully fledged wind power project. The 70m rand ($10m) deal will allow the building of a 13,200 MWh pilot project at Darling, 50 km north of the city. The “green” electricity will be […]

More Frequent Heat Waves Linked to Global Warming

U.S. and European Researchers Call Long Hot Spells Likely Heat waves like those that have scorched Europe and the United States in recent weeks are becoming more frequent because of global warming, say scientists who have studied decades of weather records and computer models of past, present and future climate. While it is impossible to […]

Carpool Passes Go Fast

The state has so far received 74,108 applications for an allotment of 75,000 decals permitting hybrid owners to drive solo in HOV lanes. A day after he signed the papers on his new metallic-blue Honda Civic hybrid, Steve Giang was rushing Thursday to file a different kind of paperwork. Like many hybrid owners, Giang was […]

The Price of Oil, The Maddening Silence of The Press

In the past few years no commodity has played such havoc on our lives than has oil, and little has more directly touched the political and economic sinews of our era than the pernicious impact of the price of oil. It has penetrated everything from our governance, our foreign relations, our well being and most […]

War could trigger oil crisis, warns EIU

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has warned that if Iran were to become involved in the current Israeli-Lebanese conflict, the results could be itp

UK: Firms face record power bills

British industry is facing its worst-ever rise in energy prices in the run-up to the round of contract renewals this October. Two-thirds of all industrial electricity contracts are up for renewal between now and October 1, but many firms have yet to put new contracts in place, according to energy brokers. Price hikes of up […]

Global Warming Could Slam Food Supply

Suppose the dinner on your table last night had cost 20 times what it did? Or 50 times as much? Scientists say global warming very likely has something like that in store in the coming decades.ABC

Give up cheap flights, holidaymakers told

It’s the peak holiday season, but it still takes just a few minutes online and a few pounds to book a flight to Glasgow, Manchester, Dublin … even Prague, Rome or Barcelona. Not for much longer, though, if an influential group of MPs gets its way. Alarmed at what it sees as the government’s wilful […]

Analysis: War Sends Ripples Over Mideast

Anger toward America is high, extremists are on the upswing and hopes for democracy in the Middle East lie dashed. The Lebanon war is creating dangerous ripples in the war on terror, the future of Iraq – even the effort to keep nuclear weapons from dangerous hands. “America, we hate you more than ever,” Ammar […]

Facing energy crisis, Chile looks at building dams

With Chile trying to manage both Latin America’s most dynamic economy and a looming energy squeeze, the government has embraced a plan to build a series of dams here in the rugged, pristine heart of Patagonia that would flood thousands of acres. The plan, proposed by a Spanish-owned electricity company, would harness the rushing rivers […]

Chevron and Stanford team up to develop nanoscale diamondoids

Stanford and Chevron MolecularDiamond Technologies have teamed up to develop a novel class of nanomaterials derived from petroleum. Diamondoidsfuelcellsworks

Energy-efficiency could save China 300 mln tons coal annually

China could cut its coal consumption by 300 million tons annually, or 13.5 percent of the total last year, with energy efficiency measures, a report from a government economic agency said on Thursday. However, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said in the report that the prospects of introducing basic energy efficiency moves to […]

Asian hopes for hydropower may add to oil reliance

Asian plans for a multitude of hydroelectric projects will lead some nations to a greater reliance on dams to meet power demand, potentially triggering costly bouts of extra oil imports in times of drought. While coal, gas and nuclear power stations will make up the bulk of new regional generation, hydro will take up a […]

South Korean scientists discover matter for hydrogen storage

Professor Lim Ji-sun of Seoul National University fuelcellsworks

Subsidies mask the true costs of fossil fuels

Last Sunday’s Viewpoints contained two columns on energy independence, one advocating aggressive government spending to cut our nation’s dependence on foreign energy and fossil fuels, the other concluding that the marketplace would do a better job dealing with the problems of rising prices and consumption than any government agency could. According to the author of […]

High oil prices will not dent Airasia’s ambitious plans: CEO

High oil prices will not put Asia’s largest budget carrier Airasia off new routes to Indonesia, China and India as it looks to fly 15 million passengers by the end of 2007, its CEO said. Airasia’s Tony Fernandes, however, warned that rising fuel costs could force another round of consolidation among budget carriers in the […]

Feel the Beat : A Boshian Peak Oil Canvas

In each of these last years before oil production inevitably drops, we are using more oil (and coal, natural gas and other forms of energy) than humanity has ever used before. Over 80 million barrels per day (mbd). More oil in 2006 than the total amount the world used before 1960. Each year.Each year of […]

Is the era of easy oil over?

To fully grasp the scope of the crisis looming before them, Americans must retrace their seemingly ordinary tankful of gasoline back to its shadowy sources. This is, in effect, a journey into the heart of America’s vast and troubled oil dependency. And what it exposes is a globe-spanning energy network that today is so fragile, […]

ALTERNATIVE FUELS: Ethanol booms, but warnings issued

Minnesota and other Midwestern states are in the middle of an ethanol boom, with new production facilities sprouting up as fast as corn does on a rainy spring day. “There is a bit of a gold rush going on,” said Tim Gerlach of the American Lung Association. But some warn that farmers and agri-businesses need […]

Japan to protest undersea oil work by China

Japan plans to lodge a protest with Beijing after China’s largest offshore oil development company said it had entered full production at a disputed undersea oil field in the East China Sea, a major newspaper reported yesterday. Japanese officials are currently verifying the report, and if confirmed, the government will demand China immediately halt the […]

US Sales of Hybrids Top 25,000 Units in July for a New High

Buoyed by strong results for the Prius and the Camry hybrid, sales of hybrids in the US hit a new high in July, with 25,626 units sold greencarcongress

Astronomical effort needed to save planet, says scientist

A GLOBAL research project on the scale of the Apollo Moon landings is urgently needed to develop “green” technologies to counter the effects of global warming, one of Britain’s leading scientists said yesterday. The president of the Royal Society, Lord Rees of Ludlow, insisted a publicly-funded international research programme into alternative energy sources is crucial […]

A BBC View of Natural Gas Supply

The Oil Drum – The BBC, on Channel 4, has just issued an analysis of oil and natural gas called Over a Barrel . Lest you feel impelled to search the dial, I should perhaps warn you ahead of time, that a favored expert is the good Dr Yergin. And so their opinion seems to […]

Gazprom’s Huge Venezuela Gas Deal Alarms US

The Observer – Gazprom, Russia’s state-controlled gas company, is risking a diplomatic row with the United States over a mooted multibillion-dollar pipeline investment in Venezuela. The Russian gas giant is close to a deal on the project, according to Venezuela’s firebrand President, Hugo Chavez, who has led opposition to US influence in Latin America.The Observer

Gulf States Struggle to Boost Spare Oil Output

Gulfnews – Gulf oil producers are struggling to expand their spare crude output capacity to meet surging global demand and their plans are blocked by manpower shortages, security factors and their ageing oil reservoirs, according to the World Bank. Such factors have led to a sharp decline in the region’s spare capacity and allied with […]

Shortage Has Truck Drivers Fuming

Colorado – and the nation – are experiencing a diesel-fuel shortage this summer that is hampering a variety of shipping businesses and has trucking companies scrambling for fuel. At some Colorado truck stops, fuel is being rationed to 50 to 75 gallons per truck – far less than the 100 to 300 gallons needed to […]

Is there even any doubt?

Israeli warplanes carried out pre-dawn attacks for the third consecutive night on Beirut’s southern suburbs, a bastion of the Shiite Hezbollah militia, police said, as Israel’s largest city Tel Aviv braced for a rain of retaliatory rocket fire. “…raking neighbouring areas with heavy machinegun fire, local police said.” The United States and France meanwhile faced […]

South Korea: Worsening sentiments bedevil economy

Fast-depreciating consumer and business sentiments cast dark clouds over the economy amid global economic slowdown and soaring energy costs. Market observers and government officials raised concerns that these factors could together drag down local demand and investment.Korea Herald

Old thinking on energy

Three-bucks-a-gallon gasoline has transformed the energy debate in Washington from what Marylanders might see as a principled if abstract battle over drilling in Alaska’s wildlife refuge to the most serious threat in 25 years of oil rigs rising off Ocean City. Short-term politics of a tumultuous election year have driven Congress to contemplate lifting a […]

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