Is Houston smarter than Detroit? Big Oil versus Big Auto

US car makers and the US oil industry appear to be speeding in opposite directions in what may seem like a complete paradox. Just as companies like Chevron, Exxon and Shell announce the highest profits of any company in history, Chrysler, Ford and General Motors sales are in free fall. Is the oil industry in […]

Research Shines Some Light On Mysteries of Antarctica

When researchers think about the effects of global warming, and especially about how much ocean levels will rise along with temperatures, they inevitably turn their attention to Antarctica. Almost 90 percent of the planet’s ice is frozen in the glaciers and ice sheets of the continent, so conditions there will in large part determine whether […]

Venture Vehicles Developing 3-Wheel, Tilting Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle

Venture Vehicles Inc. formally announced the development of a 2-passenger, 3-wheel, tilting, plug-in series hybrid electric vehicle under the working name VentureOne. In addition to the low-emission, flex-fuel hybrid model, Venture Vehicles is also developing a zero-emission all-electric version that will have an all-electric range of nearly 200 miles. greencarcongress

New High-Density, Lower-Pressure Adsorbed Natural Gas Tanks from Corncobs

Using corncob waste as a starting material, researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU) and Midwest Research Institute (MRI) in Kansas City have created carbon briquettes with complex nanopores capable of storing natural gas at an unprecedented density of 180 times their own volume and at one-seventh the pressure of conventional natural gas tanks. Used […]

Relearning how to live as voluntary peasants

Their experience of voluntary peasantry puts the Farmies on a totally different planet from the rest of America, where the mainstream still, every day, every minute, is made more addicted to their energy-scarfing hyper-consumerism. So when the time comes and the rest of America, having been denied its right to shop, convulses and sickens in the pangs of withdrawal, the planet of voluntary peasantry may well survive Peak Oil and Global Climate Chaos, because the people on it have had some real preparation for life as involuntary peasants.

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Can OPEC and Non OPEC Stop the Oil Price Rise?

Since October 2006 world oil demand, as in previous years since 2002-2003 has fallen away from the Summer Demand Peak. During the July-August 2006 summer peak, world oil demand on a wide all liquids base probably hit at least 87.5 Mbd. Prices also hit all-time nominal records, around 78 USD/bbl. This was however lower than […]

A Petro Prayer

“The industrialized world’s unprecedented economic growth during the last 100 years has been based in large part on increasing availability of cheap petroleum.” (Professor Craig Bond Hatfield, 1997. See “Notes” below.) * * * “Petra: upon thee I will build my church.” Saint Matthew, quoting our LORD. 1 Thank you Glorious ELOHIM for Day Three […]

Market led to shortages, not lower prices

Energy use in New England is increasing steadily, nowhere faster than in New Hampshire. Yet no major power plants are under construction in the region. The region’s wholesale electric energy pool manager, ISO-New England, projects that shortages could occur by next year. It predicts that energy demand by 2015 will require 4,300 megawatts of new […]

Alberta Launches Review of Oil, Gas Royalty Regime

The province of Alberta on Friday launched a wide-ranging review of its energy royalty regime, which could result in changes in the tax structure for Canadian oil and gas producers. The review is necessary to ensure that Albertans are receiving a fair share from the energy development occurring in the region, said Alberta Minister of […]

North Korea Passing the Nuclear Spotlight

…In return for shutting down the main nuclear reactor within 60 days, North Korea will get 50,000 tons of fuel. They will gain another 950,000 tons of fuel after taking more steps toward nuclear disarmament. But the decision by North Korea to suspend and potentially dismantle their nuclear program isn’t that surprising. The eventual collapse […]

Oil Program Ad Labeled `Propaganda’ From Chavez

Kennedy Faulted For Thanking Venezuela For Low-Cost Shipments BOSTON — In a TV commercial, former Rep. Joseph Kennedy stands aboard an oil tanker moving across the Boston skyline and promises that millions of gallons of discounted heating oil are on their way to poor, shivering families, courtesy of “our good friends in Venezuela.” What he […]

Rising Price of Electricity Sets Off New Debate on Regulation

MARION, Ill. Utility rates had been capped in Illinois for 10 years, but the state agreed last year to raise them as part of an effort to open up its electricity markets to competition. Maryland, New Jersey and a half dozen other states are also removing caps. But residents in this part of Illinois are […]

World premiere: biogas fuel cell powers and cools telecom server farm

Server farms have a voracious appetite for energy. On the one hand they use considerable amounts of electricity to function, while on the other hand they need vast amounts of cooling. Some have noticed that rising energy prices are becoming a heavy burden on the IT and telecom industry’s servers, which form the backbone of […]

Greenhouse gases hit new high

OSLO (Reuters) – 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 […]

Mexico’s Pemex faces drying field, no funds to update refineries

MEXICO CITY – When an al-Qaida faction this week urged militants to attack U.S. oil suppliers in Mexico, Canada and Venezuela, it was a recognition of the powerful world role played by Petroleos Mexicanos, the Mexican oil monopoly. Government-owned Pemex is the United States’ second-largest supplier of petroleum after Canada and ranks No. 6 among […]

Explosion rocks Texas refinery, injuring 19

More than 400 employees evacuated from Valero Energy Corp. plant SUNRAY, Texas – An explosion rocked a west Texas refinery Friday, injuring at least 19 people and sparking a blaze that sent a huge black cloud billowing into the sky. …Paul Jenkins, fire chief in the nearby community of Dumas, said Valero…The refinery was shut […]

In energy conservation, California sees the light

Progressive policy makes it a model in the fight against global warming At the height of the 1973 energy crisis, Arthur H. Rosenfeld had a revelation. Disturbed about having to spend half an hour in line at a gas station one Friday night, the particle physicist calculated that keeping his floor of offices brightly lit […]

Canada, U.S. on course for LNG collision

Gas terminal plans: Conflict over tankers’ passage coming to a head WASHINGTON – The Conservative government is refusing to allow huge liquefied natural-gas tankers to go through Canadian waters off New Brunswick to two proposed gas terminals in Maine because of worries of catastrophic accidents in the treacherously narrow passage. Michael Wilson, the Canadian ambassador […]

No easy way out

…A good example is the theory of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a highly respected industry authority, estimates that if unconventional sources are added into the mix our planet

UNEP head says Europe complacent on climate change

BERLIN (Reuters) – European nations are not doing enough to fight climate change and should show more leadership before they criticize the United States and Asia, the head of the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) said on Saturday. Achim Steiner said in an interview with Bild am Sonntag newspaper that climate change has been caused primarily […]

Sachs warns of global warming disaster

UNITED NATIONS – The world faces a global warming disaster if the United States and China do not take decisive action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, a leading economist said at the U.N. Friday. Jeffrey Sachs, speaking at the U.N. with British economist Sir Nicholas Stern, said the commitment of the two largest emitters of […]

Relearning how to live as voluntary peasants

“Part of The Farm’s original vision was to build a village for a thousand people using alternative energy systems that were economically and ecologically responsible. We believed that we could design a graceful standard of living which would be attractive to large numbers of First World people, while also being within reach of all Third […]

Smaller Footprints, Cooler Stuff and More Cash

If we want to build a society which is both prosperous and sustainable, we’re going to need to innovate ways of delivering the material goods which underpin that prosperity at a small fraction of the ecological cost they exact today. We must learn to live large while leaving tiny ecological footprints. We have extremely huge […]

India’s building boom fuels coal rush

Soaring demand for cement to feed India’s construction boom is forcing the country’s cement makers to import much more coal, driving up prices in South Africa as cheaper alternatives dry up. Coal, together with lime, is commonly used for making cement and it also provides heat for the process. India has domestic reserves of coal, […]

Biofuel to power Indonesia’s anti-poverty drive

Indonesia is embarking on an ambitious biofuel programme which has already attracted more than 17 billion dollars in foreign and domestic investment and criticism from conservationists worried about the country’s forests. While Indonesia is rich in oil and gas supplies, demand in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy is outpacing production and it is seeking alternative energy […]

Peru: Glacier could be gone in five years

The principal glacier of the world’s biggest tropical ice cap could disappear within five years as a result of global warming, one of the world’s leading glaciologists predicted yesterday. The imminent demise of the Qori Kalis glacier, the main component of the Quelccaya ice cap in the Peruvian Andes, offered the starkest evidence yet of […]

Arabs seek coherent Chinese strategy

China’s meteoric rise as a global economic power is a recurrent theme at business forums these days everywhere, and the Gulf region is no exception. Having been busy for decades in building relations with the West, Arab countries lack strategies in dealing with new world realities in which the US alone no longer holds sway […]

Future shock: Asia is running out of gas

Of the 10 emerging and developing countries within the ASEAN bloc, only Indonesia and Malaysia are relatively self-sufficient in crude oil – and that comfort zone will evaporate within two decades, along with most natural-gas supplies. From the global perspective, the US Department of Energy has calculated that oil demand will grow by 35% between […]

Web site provides energy calculator

Anyone seeking to reduce home energy costs can check out FirstEnergy Corp.’s new online energy calculator. Go to www.firstenergycorp.com. Look for the icon at the lower right-hand side of the computer screen. ohio

Researcher Ben Anthony: Oilsands Gasification Will Help Unleash Energy Riches

Ben Anthony is a connoisseur of Canadian coals, intimately familiar with their individual characteristics. “Every coal is unique. After a quarter century of research, I’ve become quite fond of them,” the federal researcher acknowledges with a smile. He expresses less affection for coke and asphaltenes, the black gunk left over after bitumen is upgraded, but […]

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