Hydrogen Fuel Cells Power Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have conducted successful test flights of a hydrogen-powered unmanned aircraft believed to be the largest to fly on a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell using compressed hydrogen. fuelcellsworks

Want Solar Energy Write-Offs? Try New Jersey

As the U.S. property market and summer both cool down, turning your house into a power producer can make sense. If you want to “go solar” with your home and boost its market value, New Jersey is a good place to start. You need to do some calculations before taking the plunge. Solar equipment isn’t […]

Oil and the American Farmer

Counterpunch – When I was small, my family lived in a little community not far from where I live now. Often I drive the two-lane blacktop through the remains of that town. Past the cemetery where my parents lie, past the school where I began first grade (now a private home), past the site of […]

New Bio-Fuel Source Could Take Root

A tree that can reach 90 feet in six years and be grown as a row crop on fallow farmland could represent a major replacement for fossil fuels. Purdue University researchers are using genetic tools in an effort to design trees that readily and inexpensively can yield the substances needed to produce alternative transportation fuel. […]

U.S. rails seek ways to haul more Wyoming coal

GILLETTE, Wyoming (Reuters) – The long trains that seem to be everywhere in this sparsely populated stretch of land haul nearly 1 million tons of Powder River Basin coal to power plants daily, but that’s simply not enough. Utilities are clamoring for more of this fuel, which has become a popular alternative to costly natural […]

Industry thwarting efforts to keep fuel pumps honest

Unadjusted dispensers costing consumers about $2.3 billion a year OAHU, Hawaii – Its idyllic weather, pounding surf and a warm, welcoming culture help make Hawaii distinctive. So does its gallon of gas. The Hawaiian gallon contains nearly 234 cubic inches of fuel — about three cubic inches more than is dispensed in the rest of […]

Oil expulsions ‘will burn Chad’

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – A senior official from Berlin-based watchdog Transparency International warned on Monday that Chad’s move over the weekend to expel two foreign oil firms could further hurt investors’ confidence and hamper growth in the country, which ranked the most corrupt in its survey last year. In a sudden move over the weekend, […]

South Korea to Offer Firms Incentives to Cut Emissions

South Korea plans to offer financial incentives to local companies to encourage them to put more resources into cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the budget and energy ministries said on Sunday. The government would start offering financial incentives from next year to companies that cut emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases by more […]

Biofuels distress oil companies

Skyrocketing oil prices have made the development of renewable and relatively clean alternative fuels an economic—and urgent—proposition. Even the world’s biggest oil-producing countries are now preparing for the day when their petroleum reserves run out.Take the case of Iran, which the United States and Europe are forcing to stop its nuclear energy program. The West […]

Foreign oil producers put Arroyo on notice

President Arroyo’s decision to revoke a contract awarded to a foreign company for oil production in the Philippines has sent a shudder through the heart of the foreign investment community. Oil exploration publication Upstream said the move was “understood to be due to pressure from influential Filipino business interests, which do not want the potentially […]

Disaster-prone China takes heed of global warming

Storms, floods, heat and drought that have killed more than 2,000 people in China this year are a prelude to weather patterns likely to become more extreme due to global warming, the head of the Beijing Climate Center said. Yet even as China approaches the United States as the world’s largest producer of the manmade […]

Bangladesh faces strike over coal mine deaths

Opposition parties in Bangladesh have called for a nationwide strike on Wednesday to protest against the deaths of six people when they tried to storm an office of a British coal miner. Asia Energy wants to develop an open-pit mine at Phulbari in Dinajpur district, 350 km (220 miles) northwest of Dhaka. Residents and rights […]

Japan, China clash over gas site

Japan has protested China’s opening of a new gas exploration site near disputed waters in the East China Sea, Japan’s top government spokesman said Monday. Both Japan and China claim rights to undersea resources in the waters. Tokyo has proposed a joint exploration, but China has refused and gone ahead with its own drilling.CNN

Money Grows on Trees as Palm Oil Beats Crude on Diesel Demand

The best-performing oil investment comes from trees in Malaysia, not the deserts of Saudi Arabia. Vegetable oils from palm trees normally used in Hellmann’s mayonnaise and Snickers chocolate bars are being converted to diesel for Mack trucks after oil more than doubled in the past three years and governments encouraged renewable fuels. Palm oil reached […]

Gas prices dropping sharply, hit 5-month low

U.S. retail gasoline prices last week fell to their lowest level since early April, a survey said Sunday. The average price for self-serve, regular unleaded gas in the United States was $2.8714 a gallon on Aug. 25, a 15.42 cent decline off a record high two weeks ago, according to a survey edited by industry […]

Growing public support for action on peak oil

After three weeks on the road talking to New Zealanders Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman has found that New Zealanders are several steps ahead of the Government when it comes to climate change and peak oil. “While the Government is making giant steps backwards by backing out on a carbon pollution charge, and allowing dirty […]

US, Israel Seek New Energy Sources

Jerusalem Post – Israel and the US will pool their scientific brainpower to find and develop alternative energy sources under a bill passed by the House and now wending its way through the Senate. Under the proposed US-Israel energy cooperation act, scientists and engineers from both countries would focus on research, development and commercial use […]

For struggling West Texans, giant turbines bring winds of change

The thing about West Texas that you can’t ignore, that you can never forget, is the wind. On that big, flat stretch of land dotted with scrubby mesquite trees, the wind sweeps through effortlessly, unimpeded. It rakes across acres of ranchland, over cattle and rocks and red dirt, over nearly dry stock tanks and abandoned […]

Oil-driven energy era coming to end?

The era of oil-driven energy is coming to an end, says Jim Fischer, a senior technical advisor with the U.S. Department of Energy. SouthEastFarmPress

Iran’s oil output up by 55,000 bpd

Iranian Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh announced that Iran’s crude oil production has increased by by 55,000 barrels per day in the last one year, IRNA reported. Elaborating on his ministry’s performance on the occasion of Government Week, Vaziri Hamaneh added that daily natural gas production in the past year increased by 55 million cubic […]

Chad Orders 2 Oil Companies to Leave

Chad’s president on Saturday ordered oil companies Chevron Corp. and Petronas to leave the country, saying neither has paid taxes and his country will take responsibility for the oil fields they have overseen. In remarks on state-run radio, President Idriss Deby gave the companies part of the African country’s oil production consortium that is led […]

Central Asia: Japanese Premier Visits Energy-Rich Region

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi travels to Central Asia on August 28 for the first visit to the region ever made by a Japanese head of government. The visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is the culmination of more than a decade of effort by Japan to forge stronger links with the Central Asian republics.RadioFreeEurope

Commentary: No way out by drill from U.S. oil trap

Good news from Washington: The Senate just passed a narrowly focused bill that would open 8.3 million acres for new energy development in the Gulf of Mexico. A hundred miles off Florida, it is called Sale 181 Area, and may contain as much as 1.2 billion barrels of oil. The House has its own, even […]

Saudi Arabia to increase crude oil supply to Japan by 300,000 bpd

Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia, will increase its supply of crude oil to Japan by at least 300,000 barrels per day (bpd), the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Saturday. PeoplesDaily

Why Bush will Choose War Against Iran

Like many people, I find it extremely difficult to believe that President Bush could actually do anything so crazy as to launch a military attack against Iran, and that even if he wanted to, the Congress, the Pentagon, and the American public would ever countenance such action. He has vowed that he will not leave […]

Scientists find new perils in global warming

Scientists are now confirming what many people have suspected for several years: that there is a connection between global warming and a rise in seismic activity leading to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. An article in New Scientist magazine of May 27 titled workers

Climate change to drive radical changes in global tourism

In less than 25 years climate change will have a radical impact on the global travel industry, according to the Holiday 2030 report launched by Halifax Travel Insurance. By 2030 global sea levels could be 72 mm higher but accelerated melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets could contribute to levels of 25cm. […]

Israel air force chief to plan war on Iran

Israel has appointed a top general to oversee a war against Iran, prompting speculation that it is preparing for possible military action against Teheran’s nuclear programme. Maj Gen Elyezer Shkedy, Israel’s air force chief, will be overall commander for the “Iran front”, according to military sources spoken to by The Sunday Telegraph. News of the […]

Ethanol is just the beginning

Ethanol factories are sprouting like corn tassels in July, and investors are plunking down their life savings in expectation of big returns. It feels good for Iowa to have a genuine boom in a growth industry. This state hasn’t seen anything like it in a long time. But will it last? Plus, there is the […]

Energy security is greatest worry, not climate change

Britons fear global terrorism far more than climate change, a sensible assessment which should be reflected in energy policy. Today thebusinessonline

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