Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?

As we all know, the warning signals we have received about energy, food, species extinction and global warming are just the most prominent issues. We are also seeing a host of other warnings, from every corner of the globe: wars erupting over water; infectious diseases that spread around the world like wildfire; actual wildfires that […]

The Basis of Sustainable Community Energy Policy

Renewable energy policy and sustainable community issues place an enormous strain on society and its institutions. For good or ill, the fossil energy economy created a sense of independence. But times are changing. There is an increasing awareness that energy supply is somehow connected to nearly all aspects of modern life: diplomacy; international conflict; health […]

Survey: E&P Spending to Cool Off in 2007

After two years of massive increases, the pace of oil and gas capital spending growth will slow down in 2007, as U.S. companies temper their North American budgets in the wake of weakening natural gas prices, according to a survey released Monday by Lehman Brothers. Exploration and production spending will increase by 9% in 2007 […]

In Praise of Sweet Darkness

In recent years I have written articles with titles like One opportunity is to re-consider the role of darkness and down times as part of a natural cycle. Everything that lives perishes — individuals, relationships, nations, empires, species, even planets. Other living things combine from what remains of the departed to replace them. It

Risks of exploiting low-quality sources of oil

BERKELEY “When we face tradeoffs between economics, security and environment, the environment often ends up getting the short end of the stick,” said Alex Farrell, associate professor of energy and resources at UC Berkeley. “The scale and irreversibility of the environmental risks, such as climate change and major damage to the Alberta ecosystem to get […]

Halliburton Workers Attacked in Algeria

Assailants hurled a bomb and shot at two vehicles carrying employees of an affiliate of U.S. company Halliburton near Algiers Sunday, killing one driver and injuring nine people. …The attack threatened to stain the oil-rich North African nation’s international security image just as it is enjoying an oil boom and increased foreign investment after a […]

Long Beach LNG Proposal Caught in Political Squeeze

While its sponsors continue to talk confidently, the proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in the Long Beach, CA, harbor Monday was suspended in a political vise about to be squeezed between the city political leaders and the separate Port of Long Beach. Port officials are dragging their feet on completing a final environmental […]

Cutting The Carbon-Energy Cord: Unplug From (Or Sell To) The Central Grid

Modern large-scale wind turbines, manufactured by companies like General Electric and implemented by private and public power utilities, are massive in size and cost. According to Wikipedia, “typical wind turbines have diameters of 40 to 90 meters and are rated between 500 kW and 2 MW. Currently (2005) the most powerful turbine is rated at […]

Oil habit hard to break, experts say

No lack of alternatives, but political will is in question, panel finds WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Energy experts agreed Thursday the U.S. won’t wean itself off imported oil any time soon even in the face of growing national-security threats in the Middle East and concern about global warming. With congressional power switching to the Democrats starting […]

Can’t Handle the Truth? – Updated

…While the NSTA rejected the Truth DVDs on the grounds that accepting them would violate its 2001 policy against endorsements, David points out that the policy “didn’t stop them from shipping out 20,000 copies of a whopping 10-part video funded by ConocoPhillips in 2003.” The series, which credits NSTA Executive Director Gerald Wheeler as an […]

Breakthrough for future exploration unrecoverable gas reserves

Huge underground gas reserves, up to 16% of the total reserves, remain unused. The natural gas in these fields is too contaminated for exploitation. With existing technology, cleaning these fields is much too costly. As a result of research done by Ralph van Wissen MSc these fields may in the future become more profitable. In […]

Even with cheaper oil, energy hot in ‘07

After a bonanza in 2006, Big Oil is poised for a slightly less big year in 2007, as slowing U.S. economic growth and an expanding global supply cushion may help keep a lid on prices. businessweek

Opec

The decades old policy of thinning the ranks of Opec has gone sour. Three countries, Angola, Sudan and Ecuador are knocking at the oil cartel dawn

Russia: A commodity giant wakes up

Russia is a resource-rich country, and now a dominant player in the world energy market. It is quite literally fuelling the rise of the powerhouse economies of the East. Oil, natural gas, metals, and timber account for more than 80% of exports, leaving the country vulnerable to swings in world prices. Strong oil export earnings […]

Sustainable nuclear energy moves a step closer

Wilfred van Rooijen’s research, conducted at the Reactor Institute Delft, focused on the nuclear fuel cycle and safety features of a Gas-cooled Fast Reactor (GFR), one of the so-called ‘fourth generation’ nuclear reactor designs. These designs have a sustainable character: they are economical in their use of nuclear fuel and are capable of rendering a […]

Arctic Ice Melting Faster Than Expected

New studies project that the Arctic Ocean could be mostly open water in summer by 2040 nytimes

The Cost of an Overheated Planet

So it is something of a surprise that James E. Rogers, chief executive of Duke Energy, a coal-burning utility in the Midwest and the Southeast, has emerged as an unexpected advocate of federal regulation that would for the first time impose a cost for emitting carbon dioxide. But he has his reasons. nytimes

Trouble in the Russian oil patch

Royal Dutch Shell PLC is poised to yield control of its troubled $20-billion (U.S.) Sakhalin-2 project to state-owned OAO Gazprom, as the Kremlin continues to tighten its grip on Russian oil and gas assets in the world’s emerging energy superpower. theglobeandmail

Elephants and Quagmires: Peak Oil and the Bush Denial

An administration full of oilmen, cognizant of ‘peak oil’ and America’s dependence upon a Middle East containing 60% of the world’s remaining cheap oil, faced with a dictator in oh so central and tempting, incredibly oil-rich Iraq, who as a sworn enemy was threatening oil flow not only from Iraq but from the wider Gulf, […]

Study of Wind Power in UK Finds Actual Results Extremely Variable

An independent study commissioned by the UK greencarcongress

Why a hydrogen economy doesn’t make sense

In a recent study, fuel cell expert Ulf Bossel explains that a hydrogen economy is a wasteful economy. The large amount of energy required to isolate hydrogen from natural compounds (water, natural gas, biomass), package the light gas by compression or liquefaction, transfer the energy carrier to the user, plus the energy lost when it […]

Exxon World Energy Outlook 2006

Exxon’s “The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2030″ contains no surprises to those familiar with previous versions of their annual exercise. “Peak oil” is dismissed based on an estimate of 3-4 trillion barrels of reserves (including “frontier” reserves of tar sands etc.), but the natural gas outlook diverges from the more optimistic EIA forecasts […]

Gazprom ‘wins $22B Shell gas plan’

MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) — Royal Dutch Shell has offered to cede control of the $22 billion Sakhalin-2 project, Russia’s biggest single foreign investment, to state gas monopoly Gazprom after months of government pressure, industry sources said. Such a deal would appear to mark a victory for the Kremlin, determined to wrest control over the “commanding […]

The Iran oil bourse – a new direction?

…In May 2004 we were invited to lead a consortium in creating a new Petroleum Exchange in Iran and in August 2004 we completed a major However, following our representations earlier this year to President Ahmadinejad, who has always favoured the transparency the project will bring, control of the project was recently transferred to the […]

Homeowner

Everybody is a shrink at heart, and we have seen it on the pages of Energy Bulletin lately. The powerdowners are working like sixty to figure out why we A quick review of the reasons for believing in Peak Oil is in order, though. The first reason given is that all of us doomers are, […]

Mavens, mavens everywhere…

As the long somnolent American public began to wake up in large numbers to the dangers of global warming in the past year, those in the peak oil movement looked on in amazement. The first reaction for many might have been, “It’s about time!” The second reaction might have been, “What are we doing wrong? […]

An Energy Agenda For a Newly Energized Congress (Part IV)

Need For Urgent Congressional Oversight of Oil/Gas Futures Trading The consumption of fossil fuels given their impact on our environment is dangerous to our civilization, but perhaps no less so than the high price of oil. One of the reasons why prices have escalated exponentially over the past few years is the lack of government […]

Ghana: Crisis Action Solution Designs Solar Panels

A local non-profit making organisation based in Takoradi has successfully designed and produced solar panels as its contribution to solving the country The organisation, Crisis Action Solution Organisation (CASOLS), has also trained 164 users on the maintenance of the panels to ensure that buyers derive the maximum benefit from them. At the launch of the […]

Australian PM asks industry experts to examine carbon trading scheme

SYDNEY (AFP) – Australian Prime Minister John Howard asked a panel of industry experts to examine how to set up an international carbon emissions trading scheme to help address global warming. Howard said he had established a panel of public servants and business leaders to examine the issue, including Qantas chairwoman Margaret Jackson, BHP Billiton […]

Nissan planning new fuel-cell vehicle

TOKYO – Nissan Motor Co. announced plans Monday to launch a next-generation fuel cell vehicle in the early 2010s in Japan and North America as part of its mid-term environmental strategy. Nissan Chief Operating Officer Toshiyuki Shiga said at a Tokyo press conference outlining the company’s “Nissan Green Program 2010″ that it will introduce from […]

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