Bumpy time for Meals on Wheels

Meals on Wheels, which has delivered food to the elderly and disabled since 1954, is experiencing shortages of volunteer drivers and about four of 10 programs have waiting lists of needy clients. The rapidly growing population of Americans age 85 and older is increasing the need for nutrition programs and high gasoline prices make it […]

Great Lakes compact at the center of great debate

…A new multistate agreement working its way through state legislatures builds a legal wall around the largest source of fresh water in the world. The deal would ensure that no Great Lakes water is ever shipped outside the region “This is not a water grab,” says Sam Speck, director of the Ohio Department of Natural […]

Oil companies ‘thumbing nose at govt’

Queensland Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce has called on the federal government to mandate the uptake of biofuels as oil companies continue to fall well short of their targets. Senator Joyce said that the major oil companies are “taking the government for a ride” by failing to meet targets agreed upon last year as part of […]

UK: No new money for green energy

The government today launches the latest phase of its grant support system for renewable energy such as solar panels and wind turbines for public sector buildings such as schools – but there is no new money for the scheme in spite of the recent Stern Review.The Guardian

Put A Termite In Your Tank

Bio breakthroughs are promising much better ways to make ethanolMark Emalfarb didn’t set out to cure America’s addiction to oil. He just wanted a better enzyme to soften blue jeans. The search led him to a new fungus in the wilds of eastern Russia, and then to a serendipitous mutation that turned the organism into […]

Bush to Make Energy a 2007 Priority, Economic Aide Hubbard Says

resident George W. Bush wants to make energy independence a domestic priority next year with an eye to gathering bipartisan support in the Democratic-controlled Congress, his chief economic adviser said. “The American people are very interested in the leadership of our country figuring out a way for us to be less dependent on foreign sources […]

Asia the new focus for energy policy

The focus of international energy policy in terms of security of supply and greenhouse gas emissions must switch to the Asian region, federal Resources Minister Ian Macfarlane said yesterday. Speaking on the eve of an International Energy Agency seminar in Sydney on the future energy requirements of China and India, Mr Macfarlane said the days […]

Renewables Growth Fuels Demand for Min-Metals

Spectrolab, Inc., a wholly-owned Boeing subsidiary, last week realized a PV milestone by producing a solar PV cell with 40.7% conversion efficiency. Partly funded by the U.S. Dept. of Energy, the breakthrough development could bring installed solar PV costs down to $3 per watt and produce electricity at a cost of $0.08 to $0.10 cents […]

Trading coal for oil may prove profitable

Say oil goes back to $80 to $100 per barrel, and coal stays on its steady course of $12 to $15 per ton. Under this price scenario, you might be able to burn coal to generate the thousands of megawatts required to extract “oilshale” under a freeze-wall and heating regime, even if the energy value […]

Gulf states weigh nuclear program

The leaders of six Gulf countries announced Sunday that they intended jointly to develop nuclear energy capability, sparking new concerns of an impending nuclear race in the oil-rich Gulf just as the international community considers imposing sanctions against Iran for its nuclear development efforts. The council is made up of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, […]

World economies

Positively for Saudi Arabia, the agreement confirmed Saudi Arabia’s right to retain low feedstock prices on the grounds that its hydrocarbon resources are a natural advantage and not classed as a subsidy. The Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) plans to raise its output of petrochemicals and other products to 51m tonnes in 2006 (from 43m […]

Japan announces 82.6 billion yen loan to Iraq for energy projects

Japan’s Foreign Ministry announced Monday it would provide a 82.64 billion yen (US$707.53 million; iht

N.Z. to Favor Renewable Energy, Draft Strategy Says

New Zealand’s government plans to favor development of renewable energy sources for electricity generation to help reduce the nation’s carbon dioxide emissions, according a draft strategy released today. The country, which already gets more than 60 percent of its power from dams and wind farms, has significant potential to meet more of its future needs […]

Saudi Arabia to Deepen Oil Supply Cuts

Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia has told two Asian refiners that it will deepen supply curbs in January versus this month, industry sources said on Monday, just days before OPEC is expected to agree a second output cut. State oil firm Saudi Aramco told the Japanese lifters that it will supply them with about 8 […]

Oil producers shun the dollar

Oil producing countries have reduced their exposure to the dollar to the lowest level in two years and shifted oil income into euros, yen and sterling, according to new data from the Bank for International Settlements. The revelation in the latest BIS quarterly review, published on Monday, confirms market speculation about a move out of […]

The Oil Drum: On U.S. Finished Gasoline Stocks and Gasoline Refining Capacity

Several TOD commenters expressed concern recently regarding U.S. finished gasoline inventory decreases as evidenced by the weekly EIA reports. Total gasoline stocks are presently at the bottom range of the last five years as seen in FIGURE 1 and apparently crude prices increased partly as a result of this information. However, one can also see […]

Coming soon to a gas station near you: Anhydrous ammonia?

You pull your car into a farm service store and tell the attendant to fill ‘er up – with anhydrous ammonia. Instead of getting bushels per acre, you get miles per gallon. The notion apparently isn’t as far-fetched as it seems. Serious minds are thinking that ammonia might actually be the best candidate for freeing […]

The Oil Drum Canada: A Mackenzie Valley Pipe-Dream?

A gas pipeline along the Mackenzie Valley has been discussed on and off for over thirty years, since gas was initially discovered in the area of the Mackenzie delta. However, the project has long been a bone of contention between the companies seeking to develop and sell gas reserves, environmentalists and First Nations people living […]

Peak oil era will be hard on Hawaii

In the next decade or two, a global energy crisis will be thrust upon us; the changes it brings will be felt first in Hawaii, possibly with a more devastating effect here than in the rest of the world. Hawaii must begin preparations now to cushion the effects, say the authors of this cautionary essay. […]

The road ends in post-petro future

Like many Americans, I came of age in the era of cheap gas, cross-country vacations, the family station wagon and the Beach Boys croonin’ while I spent my high school years cruisin’. Later, warming in the fumes of JP-4 on U.S. Air Force flight lines and relocating cross-country and around the world — to Florida, […]

How To Live the Good Life Without Oil

Discover magazine picked this as the #1 science story of 2006. In September Chevron announced the discovery of a field containing up to 15 billion barrels of oil beneath the Gulf of Mexico, touting it as “a platform for growth for years to come.” Read the fine print, though, and you get a different story. […]

Running On Empty Again

The world is running out of oil. We have been for 100 years. In 1914, there was only enough supply left for 10 more years, according to the US Bureau of Mines. In 1939, we only had 13 years to go. In 1951, we still only had 13 more years of reserves. In the 1970s, […]

Rocky Mountain states facing energy challenges

Simmons to discuss the end of

Students on Campus Work for a Greener Future

In a nature reserve just off Route 58 stands what might be the future of green energy at Oberlin. Despite being

Democrats Plan Oil Royalties Inquiry

WASHINGTON Mr. Rahall said he planned a sweeping investigation of the Interior Department

Solar energy’s day is dawning

State to embark on its biggest-ever photovoltaic project When the sun rises on New Year’s Day, it will signal the start of California’s most ambitious effort yet to generate electricity from sunlight. The California Solar Initiative commits the state to spending more than $3.4 billion over the next 10 years to subsidize the installation of […]

Wind farms ‘are failing to generate the predicted amount of electricity’

The claimed benefits of wind energy are called into question today by a study that finds few wind farms in England and Wales produce as much electricity as the Government has forecast. The first independent study to rate farms according to how much electricity they produce shows that wind farms south of the Scottish border […]

As World Warms, Africa’s Waters Going Dry

Now, in a yet unpublished report obtained by The Associated Press, an international consulting firm advises the Ugandan government that supercomputer models of global-warming scenarios for Lake Victoria “raise alarming concerns” about its future and that of the Nile River, which begins its 4,100-mile northward journey here at Jinja. The report, by U.S.-based Water Resources […]

Cow ‘emissions’ more damaging to planet than CO2 from cars

Meet the world’s top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow. A United Nations report has identified the world’s rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate, forests and wildlife. And they are blamed for a host of other […]

UK must look beyond wind power

Wind power is inconsistent and “must not be allowed to squeeze out other technologies that have more to offer”, according to a major new survey. The best-performing wind sites are in north Scotland and on Shetland, where wind turbines are producing capacity factors of more than 50%. The findings were published by the Renewable Energy […]

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