Artificial trees: A green solution?

Carbon capture, in the form of “artificial trees”, is one idea explored in the BBC Two documentary Five Ways To Save The World. But could these extraordinary machines help to mitigate our excessive burning of fossil fuels and its consequence, global warming? BBC

Depleted Uranium, The Global Menace

Shortly we are about to see the true lunacy that the Western World has unleashed on itself and the rest of the planet when – without any doubt – the Bush Cartel operating in sheer desperation go ahead with their intentions to secure the 70% of the worlds natural gas supplies so that they can […]

Oil giants expand in unconventional oil sector

Major oil companies are playing a bigger role in the search for oil and gas from unconventional sources, consultants Wood Mackenzie said on Monday. The sector, including heavy oil, tight gas, coal bed methane and shale oil, is currently dominated by independent companies, which have pioneered development of these fuels in North America. canada

US ‘Iran attack plans’ revealed

US contingency plans for air strikes on Iran extend beyond nuclear sites and include most of the country’s military infrastructure, the BBC has learned. BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner says the trigger for such an attack reportedly includes any confirmation that Iran was developing a nuclear weapon – which it denies. Alternatively, our correspondent adds, […]

Will CO2 Drilling in Southern Utah Solve Global Warming?

Work is underway in Southeastern Utah on a big and very expensive scientific experiment. The idea is to see if part of the solution to global warming is tucking greenhouse gases deep underground. ksl

Tesla Motors to Build Assembly Plant in New Mexico

Tesla Motors will build its new automobile assembly facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Construction on the 150,000 square foot plant will begin in April 2007, at the latest. The New Mexico plant will be the company greencarcongress

CERA

Headed by Pulitzer Prize winning petroleum historian Daniel Yergin, CERA employees hundreds of people who study energy developments. In the last two years, CERA has spearheaded a campaign of peak oil denial. One of its senior staff, Robert Esser, has been quoted as saying, energybulletin

Synthetic fuel: A perfect energy fix?

That’s a boon for Syntroleum, the Tulsa, Okla., company that manufactures the fuel. “The technology is ready,” says Ken Agee, founder and CEO of the 22-year-old company. With the United States holding 27 percent of the world’s coal reserves, he adds, “it’s exciting to think we could control our energy destiny.” Only one snag: scale. […]

Jim Kunstler: The Big Chill

One of the farmers who organized the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture’s annual meeting put it nicely: “The ethanol craze means that we’re going to burn up the Midwest’s last six inches of topsoil in our gas-tanks.” The American public is in chill mode in more ways than one. We are finally freezing our asses […]

TOD EU: China’s Liquid Fuels Future

How are the 1.3 billion Chinese going to cope with their growing needs for energy? Can the increase in Chinese liquid fuel consumption be maintained? Even in the face of a nearby world oil production peak? Or will China have to cope with a liquid fuel crisis in the near term future? This post focuses […]

Report uncovers emissions top UK firms keep hidden

Greenhouse gas emissions running into hundreds of millions of tonnes have not been disclosed by Britain’s biggest businesses, masking the full extent of the UK’s contribution to global warming, according to a report published today by Christian Aid. Only 16 of Britain’s top 100 listed companies are meeting the government’s most elementary reporting guidelines on […]

Expert doubts state can make renewable fuel

Gov. Ed Rendell wants to see Pennsylvania farmers grow enough crops to produce a billion gallons of renewable fuels each year to reduce the state’s dependence on foreign oil. But the plan could die on the vine because there isn’t enough farmland to produce grain for energy while also keeping up with agricultural needs, according […]

Sri Lanka: Phosphate mines vs. the environment

…With the energy crisis in the world, prices of phosphorus fertilisers are steadily increasing over the years resulting in increase in the cost of cultivation adding burdens to farmers and the Government. Being self sufficient in phosphate fertiliser is the only lasting solution for this. As a country we are lagging behind the others because […]

Northern exposure

As the Arctic melts, vast deposits of oil and gas may be opened up for exploration. Will an Arctic without ice only prolong our dependence on fossil fuels? Fifty-five million years ago, the Arctic was riotous with life. With average temperatures in the mid-70s, it had palm trees, crocodiles, and mosquitoes, as one scientist has […]

Driving towards disaster

“I see no parties, only Germans,” said the Kaiser when the Reichstag in 1914 voted against war credits. Looking at the current stushie over road taxation, there seems something of a parallel: “I see no travellers, only motorists.” The Reichstag vote was a sort of suicide. Is autopatriotism any better? A rather conservative friend once […]

Solar Industry Starts Major Push for for US Solar Market Legislation

Washington, DC based, Solar Energy Industries Assocation (SEIA) today started a major campaign to engage solar proponents to help support the Securing America S. 590, the Securing America

Nigeria: Fuel shortages, stark realities and present challenges (2)

Today, in Nigeria, the ambition of every young man or woman is to be a car owner. This is a legitimate desire though, as a result of poor development of reliable mass public transportation. The rail system in Nigeria which was developed by the colonial masters mainly for the evacuation of agricultural produce and minerals […]

Rush for Cambodia’s oil begins

Oil companies have begun lining up for licenses to tap Cambodia’s vast oil and gas fields, but experts are wondering whether this new wealth will be a blessing for the country. Firms from China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Kuwait, Australia, and France have come knocking on officials’ doors to get permits to explore and […]

Expert urges response to looming oil supply problems

An internationally recognised expert in energy market analysis and energy forecasting warns liquid fuel shortages, massive unemployment, high interest rates and severe recession are some of the impacts facing Australian supply chains and the broader community if governments and companies do not prepare now for the peaking and subsequent decline of world oil production. Dr […]

EU: Consultation on carbon-storage risks to be launched

The Commission is launching an online public consultation on potential risks, particularly environmental, from new technology allowing CO2 emissions from power plants to be stored underground.The planned consultation comes in the wake of the Commission’s energy and climate- change package of 10 January 2007, which highlighted the importance of CCS in creating “a low CO2 […]

African nations wary of China’s aid

China’s extravagant diplomatic efforts to secure energy resources from African nations is making the international community increasingly wary about Beijing’s motives. Chinese President Hu Jintao may have felt a change in this respect during his recent visit to eight African countries. This will make it necessary for China to think twice about its desire to […]

Greenhouse Gases Hit New High, may be Asia Growth

Greenhouse gases widely blamed for causing global warming have jumped to record highs in the atmosphere, apparently stoked by rising emissions from Asian industry, a researcher said on Friday. “Levels are at a new high,” said Kim Holmen, research director of the Norwegian Polar Institute which oversees the Zeppelin measuring station on the Arctic archipelago […]

USAF tests synthetic fuel from coal, gas

The Air Force had been testing the fuel blend on a single B-52 since September, beginning at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert and ending at Minot. About $5 million has been spent on the tests, including some $2 million on the fuel, Harrison said. At $20 a gallon, the Fischer-Tropsch fuel costs […]

Ruble May Gain as Putin Uses Clout in Oil, Gas to Boost Exports

The ruble rally shows no sign of abating as President Vladimir Putin continues to exploit Europe’s dependence on Russian energy with a policy of ever-rising natural-gas prices. “Russia has a big weapon in the form of energy,” said Lars Rasmussen, an analyst at Danske Bank A/S in Copenhagen who covers the former Soviet states. “They […]

Germany Sounds Out New Potential Energy Sources

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliev focused their talks Sunday on energy issues and ways the two countries could increase cooperation. As part of a three-day tour of the southern Caucasus states, Steinmeier was seeking ways to decrease Germany’s dependence on Russian energy supplies after doubts have surfaced across Europe concerning […]

What tortillas tell about energy policy

The tortilla, staple of Mexican cuisine, has become the nexus of a far-reaching trade and energy dispute. A surge in U.S. ethanol production has led to a near-doubling of corn prices, so Mexican President Felipe Calderon recently put caps in place on the skyrocketing price of corn tortillas. This is economic nonsense, but it’s not […]

Preparing Nigerian cities for expensive oil

In the next 20 years, the World’s cities will go through a fundamental transformation. Many including Nigeria will expand greatly in size and population, and still have to serve the basic mobility needs of their people in a world of much higher oil prices. In the second half of the 20th century, major cities began […]

Draft Law on Oil Money Moves to Iraqi Cabinet

A draft version of the long-awaited law that would govern the development of Iraqi oil fields and the distribution of oil revenues has been submitted to Iraq nytimes

Americans Believe Global Warming Is Real, Want Action, But Not As A Priority

Most Americans believe global warming is real but a moderate and distant risk. While they strongly support policies like investing in renewable energy, higher fuel economy standards and international treaties, they strongly oppose carbon taxes on energy sources that put carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. sciencedaily

Israel’s Bomb, Iran’s Pursuit of the Bomb and US War Preparations

But, thanks to lies and deceit by Iran, as well as unsubstantiated allegations by the Bush administration and Israel, Iran’s very attempt to exercise its legal rights to the nuclear fuel cycle under Article 4 of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is now viewed as proof of intent to build the bomb. Thus, for both Israel […]

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