BP America Steps Up to California Greenhouse Gas Act

BP America says that it will work with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to develop workable, market-based strategies for implementation of climate change legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions throughout California. The California Assembly last week passed the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, which Governor Schwarzenegger is expected to sign into law in the […]

Nissan Sets Cost-Reduction Goal for Fuel-Cell Vehicles

Nikkei. Nissan Motor has set a goal of lowering the cost of fuel cell vehicles to around 1.2 times that of regular mass-produced vehicles by 2015. The current X-Trail FCV prototype has a production cost greater than greencarcongress

U.S. must finally get serious about national energy policy

When U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar talks about a threat to national security, he’s serious. So listen up. Lugar, Indiana’s senior statesman, is head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and former chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. That puts the staunch Republican in the right position to speak well about how the […]

Sugar Metabolism Tracked In Living Plant Tissues, In Real Time

Scientists at Carnegie sciencedaily

Aventine, EOP Shares Slump on Concern That Biofuel Glut Looms

Ethanol and biodiesel use is soaring as record oil prices make the so-called biofuels more attractive. Stock investors say supply may be catching up to demand. bloomberg

Escape Pollution In A Ford Escape Hybrid

The Escape Pollution project is about promoting businesses that support the environment by innovatingly using the Ford Escape Hybrid. For EscapePollution.com, the motivation aims towards protecting the environment and promoting my local city of Kelowna as a tourist destination. The benefit to advertisers of brand recognition (environmentally friendly) is more prominent on the Escape Pollution […]

Deep ice tells long climate story

BBC – Carbon dioxide levels are substantially higher now than at anytime in the last 800,000 years, the latest study of ice drilled out of Antarctica confirms. The in-depth analysis of air bubbles trapped in a 3.2km-long core of frozen snow shows current greenhouse gas concentrations are unprecedented. BBC

When Will The Tap Run Dry

BBC – Oil has meant mastery throughout the 20th Century. It is the world’s biggest and most pervasive business, and ‘the’ strategic commodity on the world stage. Tom Mangold explores the biggest debate facing the oil industry today – will we run out of oil, and if so, when?BBC

Coaxing Oil from Huge U.S. Shale Deposits

San Francisco Chronicle – Underneath the high, scrub-covered rangeland of northwest Colorado is the world’s biggest oil field. Getting the oil out of the ground, however, is one of the world’s biggest headaches. The area’s deposits of oil shale are believed to be larger than all the oil reserves of the Middle East. But past […]

Why the Survivalists Have Got It Wrong

Transition Culture – I have very little time for the survivalist response to peak oil, and on the back of a new article about it, Preparing for a Crash: Nuts and Bolts by Zachary Nowak, posted recently on the ever indispensible Energy Bulletin, perhaps it is time to deconstruct the whole survivalist argument, which is […]

Has oil production finally peaked?

With the demand for energy around the world ever increasing, are we edging closer to “peak oil” – and what can be done about it? Stephen Leeb, founder of Leeb Capital Management Group and a long-time analyst on Wall Street, thinks so. “We have a president that says we’re addicted to oil, but doesn’t say […]

Innovative farmers gear up to beat foreign oil

When Rudolph Diesel introduced his engine at the 1900 Paris World We

Uganda develops plan to cut fuel expenditures

Uganda is developing an urban transport policy that is expected to cut the country’s expenditure on fuel. Currently, the country spends Ush500 billion ($270 million) a year. According to German Technical Co-operation, GTZ, the government’s consultant, the policy should consider technical options of redesigning existing infrastructure and build cycling and walking lanes in urban centres. […]

Offshore Terminal’s Onshore Effect Debated

Building a floating liquefied natural gas terminal 14 miles off the Ventura County coast may be safer than putting it on shore, but the proposed $800-million project has triggered intense opposition over its effect on air quality in smoggy Southern California. About 12,000 coastal residents have filed comments, mostly in protest, about a draft air […]

Iran and Japan close to oil deal

Iran and Japanese firm Inpex say they are close to finalising a joint project to develop a big new Iranian oil field. Both sides say they are less than two weeks away from final agreement over the Azadegan field, which is one of the world’s largest untapped oil reserves. Any deal will no doubt raise […]

As China Spews Pollution, Villagers Rise Up

Environment-related unrest is spreading. It’s not about old-growth forests; it’s about business practices that are killing people. HUASHUI, China Not only was it one of the largest known protests, with an estimated 10,000 police officers and desperate villagers battling in April 2005, but it also proved a rare case in which citizen outrage prevailed over […]

Taiwan finds huge underwater gas hydrate reserve

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan geologists have confirmed the existence of more than 500 billion cubic meters of gas hydrate off the southwest coast, enough to meet the island’s gas needs for over 60 years, a government geologist said on Monday. But commercial extraction is likely much more than a decade away as techniques to tap […]

China keen on piped Saudi gas via Qatar, Pakistan

Energy-starved China is exploring ways to tap Saudi Arabian gas through a tie up with Gulf-South Asia (GUSA) Gas Company of Qatar that already has a joint venture for a deep sea pipeline with Pakistan. Once gas from the ‘Pak-Qatar’ pipeline reaches Gwadar on the Balochistan coast where Beijing has already invested heavily in a […]

Chavez’s whistle-stop world tour

In the course of the past six weeks, Venezuela’s left-wing President Hugo Chavez has been on a dizzying round of travel, taking in a dozen countries. His interest in international players like Russia and China may seem obvious, but Mr Chavez also found time to call in on minnows like Benin and Angola. We asked […]

Hong Kong: Time to blow fresh wind into renewable energy

The emissions trading scheme offers hope that, finally, it might be possible to tackle the worsening air quality in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta. Or does it? Is Hong Kong too small to embrace other forms of renewable energy? Chester Yung and Albert Wong report in the final of our five-part environment series […]

Poor pay most for energy

A call to energy suppliers to stop charging the poor more for gas and electricity is made today by consumer champion Energywatch, backed by a coalition of charities and consumer organisations.Children living in poverty, disabled people, older consumers and the fuel poor are suffering most from rocketing gas and electricity prices, the coalition says.This is […]

Synthetic Molecules Capture Solar Energy

A leaf is a highly efficient solar cell and researchers in Sydney have created molecules that mimic those in plants. Like the cells in plants, they harvest light and create power. According to the research team, led by Dr Deanna D’Alessandro, the best leaves can harvest 30 to 40 per cent of the light falling […]

High energy prices delay EU recruits’ eurozone entry

Prolonged high energy prices and fears of recession are setting back the plans of the European Union’s new member states to join the eurozone. Hopes of most of the ten EU states planning to adopt the euro have been put back by up to two years since Slovenia was approved as the 13th country to […]

Russian Oil Production Reached All-Time High in August

Russian crude oil production edged up 0.9 percent in August to register a new all-time high of 9.759 million barrels per day. The increase was largely a result of the Exxon-led Sakhalin-1 field coming on stream. Sakhalin-1 aims to be pumping 250,000 barrels per day by the end of the year, so the output record […]

Growth rate in India may dip due to oil prices, inflation

India’s scorching economic growth rate, the second fastest in the world after China for the last three years, is expected to slow down this fiscal due to high international oil prices and fear of high inflation. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is sticking to its June projection of India clocking around eight percent growth […]

The Great Energy Game

As demand soars, central Asia’s oil and gas reserves are a magnet pulling in the world’s powers In the 19th century, Russian and British diplomats, officers, and spies sketched maps of central Asia, carving political boundaries into the steppes and mountains as they played “The Great Game” to win control of the region. Today, there […]

India: Oil cos seek 2-year moratorium on drilling

Hit by non-availability of rigs and growing shortage of manpower, oil companies are asking the Government for a two-year moratorium on all drilling and seismic commitments. Mr Sastry Karra, Temporary Chairman of the newly-formed Association of Oil and Natural Gas Operators in India (AOGOIN), told Business Line that the operators (companies engaged in exploration and […]

Cornucopians – A Guide for the Perplexed

The Oil Drum continually attracts new readers interested in what those concerned about peak oil are saying. This story is mostly for them but also may serve as an amusing review for veteran contributors or readers. It is always a good idea to get back to basics. First time posters are welcome. Part 1 defines […]

The Demise of a Techno-fix Psyche

EnergyBulletin.net – I would describe myself as a recovering energy engineer. Technology has been an integral part of my life. At one time I had viewed advancing technology as the answer to all of our problems and the only tool necessary in improving our relationship with the natural world. My own personal journey over the […]

Adapt to climate change, world leaders warned

World leaders need to think about adapting to climate change rather than focusing only on trying to fight it, a leading economist said today. Frances Cairncross, who chairs the Economic and Social Research Council, dismissed the Kyoto agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions as “largely ineffectual”. independent

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