China: Oil at any cost

In Africa, Beijing seems insistent on repeating the tragic mistakes made by the West. IN BEIJING NEXT WEEK, leaders of 48 African countries will converge for the largest international summit in modern Chinese history. Many will go home with what they came to collect: rich incentives to sign deals trading away their natural resources to […]

Largest U.S. biodiesel plant to open in Washington

HOQUIAM, Washington (Reuters) – A biodiesel fuel company backed by venture capital money on Friday broke ground on what will be the largest U.S. biodiesel plant and pledged to develop other facilities nationwide to meet the growing demand for the environmentally friendly fuel. Imperium Renewables, the largest biodiesel producer on the U.S. West Coast, plans […]

Energy 2030 to get underway next Wednesday

DUBAI: The Petroleum Institute (PI) will host the First International Energy 2030 Conference, an international forum dedicated to addressing Energy Resources and Technologies in 2030, on November 1-2, 2006. …The Program Topical Areas are as follows: Oil scenarios: from peak oil to plenty of oil, Future of natural gas as a bridge and beyond, Nuclear […]

Navies brace for Qaeda oil attacks

RIYADH: Coalition naval forces are helping to guard vital oil installations in top exporter Saudi Arabia as part of heightened security following an Al-Qaeda threat last month, naval sources said yesterday. In their sights are the kingdom’s Ras Tanura terminal, the world’s biggest offshore oil export facility, and Bahrain’s Bapco refinery. “Acting on information received, […]

Where Did Our Energy Crisis Go? A Look Back to What I Said Last Year

Periodically I write about hot button issues from the current events of the time; differentiating the hype from the substance. Energy prices seem to be the perpetual lightening rod that American The entry below was written on August 31, 2005: The New Unfounded Crisis: Oil Prices Like clockwork, the media continues to promote the next […]

Germany Considering Revival of Atomic Power

Germany will rethink its energy mix, including a possible revival of its nuclear programme which the previous government decided to phase out, a senior government official said on Thursday. “We have to talk again of the use of nuclear,” said Joachim Wuermeling, Secretary of State at the German Economy and Technology Ministry.Germany’s previous government aimed […]

African operator helps pioneer use of biofuel as power supply

South Africa’s MTN Group, the GSM Association and Ericsson have teamed up to establish biofuels as an alternative source of power for wireless networks in the developing world. The three organisations have set up a pioneering project in Nigeria to demonstrate the potential of biofuels to replace diesel as a source of power for mobile […]

WTO must set rules for future biofuel trade-report

A booming world trade in biofuels may be around the corner, a new report said on Friday, so the World Trade Organization and others must act now to regulate rules and standards that are “all over the map.” “Everybody’s wildly producing biofuels, especially in developed countries,” said Charlotte Hebebrand, president of the International Food and […]

Nuclear war: energy

If Steve Hamilton needs an energy boost in his efforts to sell one of his company’s French-designed nuclear reactors, he can always stroll down to the beach near his office in Pickering, Ont., and take a look across the bay. Just a few hundred metres down the shore sits the giant Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, […]

”Solar Revolution:…”

Solar energy has emerged as the wave of the present for replacing dwindling fossil fuels as the primary source of the world’s energy needs, writes fund manager and former corporate buyout expert Travis Bradford. That is happening, Bradford says in his new book, “Solar Revolution,” not so much because solar is the clean, renewable fountain […]

Ukraine’s President seeks energy ties with EU

At the tenth summit “Ukraine-EU” in Helsinki Victor Yushchenko has said Ukraine appreciates Europe’s assistance in the construction of the Odesa-Brody-Plock oil pipeline and hopes to start building its Brody-Plock section soon, president’s press office reported.Mr. Yushchenko said Ukraine wanted to create a pan-European energy system to ensure transparency and introduce common rules for all […]

Europe nears single energy market

France, the Netherlands and Belgium on Friday finally backed the Belpex integrated energy market which will aim to offer a single price for power on the wholesale market between the three countries. Behind the initiative is a concern that the inefficient use of capacity on crossborder electricity links limits the smooth transfer of power between […]

Putting China’s African oil hunt into perspective

China’s high-profile oil diplomacy in Africa has been roundly criticized. But, East-West Center Senior Fellow ZhongXiang Zhang says many of those complaints are based on “exaggerated and erroneous information.” Ahead of the upcoming November 3 – 5 Forum of China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing, Zhang argues China’s foray into Africa in search of energy supplies has […]

When an oil executive is worried . . .

It’s finally come to this: Even oil executives are sounding alarms about U.S. oil consumption. “The ease with which we all lived in the last 50 years, with cheap energy, is coming to a close,” John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Co., told a City Club luncheon crowd Friday in Portland. “The next 50 years […]

Lithuania suspects Russian oil grab

he Russian government has never been straightforward about its plans to take control of the oil and natural gas business. So Lithuanians were suspicious in late July when Moscow said it had shut down the only pipeline supplying them with Russian crude oil and blamed it on the environmental risks of a leak. In fact, […]

EPA Outlines New Energy Star Requirements; Intel Pledges Support

With an eye to saving U.S. households and businesses more than $1.8 billion in energy costs over the next 5 years, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced new Energy Star specifications for computers and related equipment. These new modifications are also expected to prevent greenhouse gas emissions equal to the annual emissions of 2.7 million […]

BMW steps on (the hydrogen) gas

It would be so easy to disparage the BMW Hydrogen 7, the world’s first production-ready hydrogen car and a guaranteed showstopper when it’s unveiled next month at the Los Angeles Motor Show. After all, BMW plans to build only 100 of these vehicles next year. Of those, a mere 25 are headed to the U.S. […]

The myth of energy independence

(Hi, I’m Gar Lipow. I’ve worked extensively on renewable energy issues, and have written an (as-yet-unpublished) book on alternatives to carbon emissions, mentioned by John McGrath here. I’m going to be posting on efficiency and renewable technologies that can replace fossil fuels as well as on the economics and politics of phasing them out.) “Energy […]

Oil, tobacco companies raise $144 million to fight tax hikes

Oil and tobacco companies and their allies have raised nearly $144 million to defeat propositions 86 and 87, which would boost tobacco and oil taxes to pay for health and alternative energy programs. Altogether, supporters and opponents have raised $305.3 million to try to pass or defeat the 13 state measures on California’s Nov. 7 […]

Senators to Exxon: Stop the Denial

ExxonMobil should stop funding groups that have spread the idea that global warming is a myth and that try to influence policymakers to adopt that view, two senators said today in a letter to the oil company. In their letter to ExxonMobil chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson, Sens. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., […]

Iran ’steps up nuclear programme’

Iran has reportedly taken another step in its uranium enrichment programme, in defiance of international pressure. It has activated a second set of centrifuges – the machines used to enrich uranium – the semi-official Isna agency has said. bbc

Alloy Of Hydrogen And Oxygen Made From Water

Researchers have now used x-rays to dissociate water at high pressure to form a solid mixture–an alloy–of molecular oxygen and molecular hydrogen. The work, by a multi-institutional team* that includes Russell Hemley and Ho-kwang Mao of Carnegie’s Geophysical Laboratory, appears in the October 27 issue of Science. sciencedaily

Sea change: why global warming could leave Britain feeling the cold

Scientists have uncovered more evidence for a dramatic weakening in the vast ocean current that gives Britain its relatively balmy climate by dragging warm water northwards from the tropics. The slowdown, which climate modellers have predicted will follow global warming, has been confirmed by the most detailed study yet of ocean flow in the Atlantic. […]

GM’s Plan to Race Ahead of Toyota’s Hybrid Cars

GM, facing fierce competition from Toyota, will spend $9 billion in savings from cost cutting to produce fuel efficient cars that can match those of the leading Japanese automaker. yahoo

Protesters disrupt energy guru’s speech

Oppose diesel plant proposed for Chelsea Protesters burst into the George Sherman Union’s Metcalf Hall yesterday afternoon, interrupting a speech by Cape Wind President Jim Gordon outlining his company’s proposed project in Nantucket Sound, part of an international energy conference that began today at Boston University. About 30 protesters, carrying homemade signs and shouting, “No […]

Clean Nukes Go Public

Thorium Power Ltd. says it’s nearing its goal How far along is the development process? We’ve been testing at the Kurchatovlab for three years. It’s Russia’s Los Alamos. Westinghouse [Electric Co.] has been independently verifying the process and says there are no technical reasons why it won’t work. So when do you expect the technologyto […]

Short Memories

It’s again more important to be able to drive with a big gulp than to drive a little gulper, apparently. Just a few weeks into falling gas prices, new vehicle shoppers have ranked “overall fuel economy” No. 21 among attributes they most care about, two spots behind cup holders, according to a survey by CNW […]

Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change

The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change will be published on Monday 30th October 2006. Sir Nicholas Stern will be presenting the conclusions at the Royal Society. Link to Powerpoint presentation and lecture notes.

Saudia Arabia Confirms Threat to Oil Facilities

(Reuters) – Top world oil exporter Saudi Arabia said on Friday it was taking measures to protect its oil and economic installations from a “terrorist threat”. Western naval forces in the Gulf have been deployed to counter a possible seaborne threat to its Ras Tanura oil terminal.Reuters

British Navy Sent to Persian Gulf Oil Facilities

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Coalition naval forces in the Gulf are on watch for possible terror threats to oil facilities in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, a British navy official said Friday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press, said an al Qaeda […]

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