Biofuel rush risks gasoline hike, forest damage

Biofuels can both bring down high pump prices and help halt climate change, their supporters hope. But the result of the global boom in the green fuel additive may just have precisely the opposite effects in the near-term, according to both oil company executives and green campaigners. The higher cost of the new fuel will […]

Earlier springs and later autumns: climate change sends nature awry

Spring is arriving earlier each year as a result of climate change, the first “conclusive proof” that global warming is altering the timing of the seasons, scientists announced yesterday. In what is believed to be the world’s largest study of seasonal events, such as the flowering of plants, autumnal leaf fall and insect behaviour, scientists […]

Zimbabwe: Use of Solar Energy Urged

Zimbabwe can immensely benefit from the use of solar energy as a viable source of power in view of the current electricity shortages, the Minister of Energy and Power Development Retired Lieutenant General Michael Nyambuya has said. Speaking at the commissioning of the Zimbabwe-China solar water heater project at ZRP Msasa Camp in Harare yesterday, […]

Working time rules to cover rig workers

Offshore oil and gas workers will be covered by European Union rules governing working hours and holidays, opening the door to legal claims that employers fear could close large parts of the North Sea industry. Jim Fitzpatrick, employment minister, intends to introduce legislation from October 1 that would extend the jurisdiction of the EU working […]

The scientists who claim they can create free energy

Do you remember that awful feeling as a child on Christmas Day when Santa left you the toy you wanted . . . without any batteries? This feeling comes to me as I meet Sean McCarthy and Richard Walshe, two men making the claim that they are about to change the world – for ever. […]

Russia’s Finance Minister Says Nation Too Dependent on Oil Production

According to OPEC figures, Russia has surpassed Saudi Arabia as the world’s lealding oil producer. The Financial Times reported the news Wednesday that Russia is extracting more oil than ever before. But Russia’s Finance Minister, Alexei Kudrin, says the country has become too dependent on oil revenue as a whole. OPEC statistics show that in […]

US Gives Energy Giants Blessing To Turn Rock Into Oil

Shell already has a well-advanced U.S. test site which has produced shale oil and Jill Davis, a spokeswoman for Shell’s oil shale project, said the government’s research lease will give it a chance to demonstrate and improve its technology as well as tap into future commercial leases. “It will be the end of the decade […]

Oil crisis by 2010

WORLD oil production will peak in just 1500 days. After that, oil shortages will force massive changes to our lifestyle and business, experts have predicted. Higher petrol taxes to deter people buying as much, strict petrol rationing and Adelaide production of small fuel-frugal cars were urged yesterday by an Australian group concerned with “peak oil”. […]

Study reveals causes for freshwater increase in oceans

They found that increasing river discharge and excess net precipitation on the ocean contributed the most freshwater (about 20,000 cubic kilometers) to the Arctic and high-latitude North Atlantic. Sea ice reduction provided about 15,000 cubic kilometers of freshwater, followed by about 2,000 cubic kilometers from melting glaciers. The sum of inputs from all of the […]

Interactive map of UK renewable energy locations goes live

UK – The Government’s recent Energy Review outlined plans for another big push on renewables up to 2020 and progress on their development can now be easily tracked via a dynamic DTI web facility that is launching. On and offshore wind farms, solar power schemes, hydro electric and biofuel projects across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland […]

War with Iran? Military Movements throughout Eurasia

The Eurasian landmass is buzzing and intensifying with military activity from the onset of July 2006. This includes military movements from NATO and U.S. bases in Europe carrying military traffic to and from the United States, the Middle East, and volatile Afghanistan. In the Balkans this activity is current through the marshalling of air power; […]

Ice Age gives clues to global warming

Ice Age evidence confirms that a doubling of greenhouse gases could drive up world temperatures by about 3 Celsius (5.4 Fahrenheit), causing havoc with the climate, a study showed on Friday. The researchers made a novel check of computer climate forecasts about the modern impact of heat-trapping gases, widely blamed on use of fossil fuels, […]

Eco-worrier: DIY energy generation

A combined heat and power (CHP) boiler serves as your very own power station. It is driven by a small turbine that draws on the gas supplied to your home to produce electricity, while the heat that is simultaneously produced is used for central heating and heating water. As well as cutting your bills, it […]

PML

PML Flightlink and its partner Synergy Innovations recently unveiled an in-wheel, plug-in series hybrid conversion of a MINI at the British Motor Show, the MINI QED. The car, one of two the partners have so far produced, serves as a testbed and demonstrator for technologies the company greencarcongress

Currie Technologies to Introduce Range of Hybrid-Electric Bikes and Electric Sco

Currie Technologies, a bicycle and scooter company founded by the former chairman and CEO of Hughes Aircraft and Delco Electronics, will introduce 10 new models of hybrid-electric bicycles (pedal power + battery power) and 3 new models of electric scooters at the Eurobike International Bicycle Trade Fair held in Friedrichshafen, Germany on August 31, 2006. […]

Arch Coal Takes 25% Stake in DKRW Advanced Fuels;

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When Oil Dries Up

Sydney Morning Herald – Oil is close to running out, and chaos will follow, according to a US expert. Nick Galvin reports. RICHARD HEINBERG is an unlikely latter-day Jeremiah. The contrast between this quietly spoken Californian college professor and accomplished classical violinist and his explosive message couldn’t be more marked. Heinberg, who is embarking on […]

Risky Business

With $58 billion in claims to pay for last year alone, U.S. insurers are jacking rates, canceling policies, and learning to cope with climate change. …Says Allstate CEO Edward Liddy: “We are in a period of increased land and sea surface temperatures. When you couple that with more people living along coasts and dramatically increased […]

DOE predicts gasoline shortages

Gasoline shortages and even higher prices loom, a new government report says, and it will take decades and trillions of dollars to replace American dependence on foreign oil. The U.S. Department of Energy report directly addressed the concept of peak oil and how to deal with it. Peak oil means oil production is maximized and […]

Running on empty

You’re about to hear two of the scariest words in the English language So, if you think paying $100 to fill your tank is painful, I hate to tell you, this is as good as it gets. It’ll get worse, much worse. Two dollars plus per litre by Christmas for a start. Naturally, the oil […]

People find ways to live more lightly on Earth

Growing numbers of people in Eugene and elsewhere in the Northwest are choosing to downsize their material needs and build local ecological culture. Grass is being traded for garden space. Regional food security is generating a sharp upturn in interest. There are several buy-local campaigns around town. A Eugene nonprofit offers grants to support local […]

Is $5 Per Gallon Gasoline Enough?

Middle Eastern oil, at least for the time being, has topped out at above $76.00 per barrel. Ostensibly, the latest rise came about following a report from British Petroleum (BP) that its Alaska pipeline, which provides 2.6% of United States The present Israeli war with the terrorist group Hezbollah, coupled with pending sanctions against Hezbollah

USDA-DOE Announce Additional Key Note Speakers for Review

Additional keynote speakers have been confirmed for Advancing Renewable Energy: An American Rural Renaissance. This conference is co-hosted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and is designed to create partnerships and strategies that will accelerate commercialization of renewable energy industries and distribution systems, the crux of President Bush’s […]

Oil jumps on U.S. Gulf storm threat

LONDON (Reuters) – Oil leapt more than $1 on Friday as a storm brewing in the Caribbean threatened to sweep through the U.S. Gulf next week and menace oil supplies yet to recover from last year’s hurricanes. Support also came from Iran’s nuclear row with the West that could prompt United Nations sanctions against the […]

Venezuela’s Chavez plans to more than triple oil exports to China

BEIJING (AFP) – Venezuela intends to more than triple oil exports to China over the next five years to 500,000 barrels of oil per day, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said. “On the whole, production will increase in such a way that we will manage to export half a million crude barrels in the five next […]

China’s oil demand surges in July on heat, cars

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s apparent demand for oil climbed 12.2 percent in July, a fourth month of double-digit appetite expansion in the world’s number-two consumer, fuelled by a hot summer and booming car industry. But a stepped-up government push to cool the overheating economy — including two interest rate rises in four months and public […]

The Photovoltaic Boom

The economics of polysilicon production rule out the possibility of a long term shortage. Currently polysilicon costs $60 per kilogram. According to an excellent report authored by Jesse Pichel and Ming Yang, Research Analysts with Piper Jaffray, posted on the website Renewable Energy Access, it costs $200 million to build a manufacturing plant capable of […]

Biofuels Could Strain U.N. Goals of Ending Hunger

Rising production of biofuels from crops might complicate U.N. goals of ending hunger in developing countries, where 850 million people do not have enough to eat, a senior U.N. official said on Wednesday. “There’s a huge potential for biofuels but we have to look at … competition with food production,” said Alexander Mueller, assistant Director […]

UK and Norway Keeping Ahead of the Energy Game Together

The UK must work closely with Norway if we are to meet the twin challenges of ensuring our energy supply is both secure and clean, Malcolm Wicks, Britain’s Minister for Energy said this week. Speaking in advance of the Offshore Northern Seas Conference Malcolm Wicks said that the UK, like Norway, needed to work hard […]

Arab region’s gas demand growth overtakes oil

Gas demand in the Arab region has grown faster than oil demand in the past 10 years to peak at 3.34 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2005, according to a study by the 10-nation Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (Oapec). The demand is projected to rise to 4.08 million boed in […]

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