Energy crisis: For gas, why forget Russia?

The fast growing Indian economy has created the growing need for energy, which is hard to come by. Iran has held the gas hope, but there are twisted roads to be traversed. The other and better option for India is Russia India and China have grown into the fastest-growing economies in the world and so […]

Summit takes a look at a world without oil

The future of energy has to be one without oil. But what direction energy production may take depends on economic, political and environmental factors, as well as what people and businesses are willing to do. No matter what course is taken, it has to be a definitive solution, said Paul Roberts, a journalist and author […]

Pat Sajak: Gl_b_l W_rm_ng D_n_ _ r ( _ssh_l_!)

Well, the man who needs a ditzy blond to help him spell words has come out of the woodworks. Pat Sajak is a strong-worded Global Warming Skeptic. Sadly, Wheel of Fortune’s host probably has a greater voice than the thousands of IPCC scientists with a segment of the American public … hopefullyu that segment isn’t […]

China

…Mr. Hu But an undercurrent of disquiet accompanied Mr. Hu

Rwanda: After So Many Deaths, Too Many Births

CONVINCING women in the deeply impoverished Rwandan countryside that they should have fewer children is a daunting task. In a recent interview, President Paul Kagame said he was preparing a sweeping population control program, to be unveiled in the coming months, that would aim to cut Rwanda

In Niger, Trees and Crops Turn Back the Desert

GUIDAN BAKOYE, Niger Recent studies of vegetation patterns, based on detailed satellite images and on-the-ground inventories of trees, have found that Niger, a place of persistent hunger and deprivation, has recently added millions of new trees and is now far greener than it was 30 years ago. These gains, moreover, have come at a time […]

Study: Coal plants would foul Dallas-Forth Worth air

Pollution created by new power plants planned for East and Central Texas will harm Dallas-Fort Worth’s air quality and probably put Waco and Austin in violation of federal clean-air laws for the first time. Those were the conclusions in a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin. The study, released […]

Tokyo sets snowless record

TOKYO (AFP) – Tokyo has set a record for its longest snowless winter amid growing worldwide concerns about global warming, according to meteorologists. The metropolitan area of the capital has not had snow this season, making it the longest snowless winter since statistics were first kept in 1876, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The previous […]

Exxon Mobil Warming Up To Global Climate Issue

When it comes to the issue of climate change, Exxon Mobil says it has been misunderstood. “Many people want to stick us in a bucket that says we want to deny this,” said the company’s vice president for public affairs, Kenneth P. Cohen, during a conference call this week. “That is flat wrong.” Cohen said […]

Geothermal power for the oil sands

Major players in the oil sands, under political pressure to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, have quietly formed an industry-wide consortium to explore using heat in the Earth’s crust as a clean alternative to natural gas. The consortium, called GeoPower in the Oil Sands, or GeoPOS, plans to drill an appraisal well to assess the […]

Gas: Iran turns up the heat

So what’s the problem? First, Moscow wanted to see that alarm bells didn’t ring in Western capitals, especially when a top-level European Union delegation was due to visit Moscow. In the West, sweat breaks out at the very mention of “cartel”, invoking images of production quotas, price rigging, and so on. Second, Moscow knows that […]

Aus: CSIRO’s horror climate forecast

Heat waves that kill thousands, gigantic bushfires and regular 100-year storms are part of a frightening new climate change forecast for Australia. A leaked CSIRO report into the impact of global warming predicts a century of climatic horrors for Tasmania and the rest of Australia. The doomsday scenario will form the basis of the Australian […]

Hyperinflation in food and energy and deflation in everything else

The food prices will quadruple in the next five to ten years. The energy prices will also quadruple in the next ten years. The rest of the world economies will suffer severe deflation and depression because of hyperinflation in oil, natural gas and food will drain the economies out. The corn prices have already doubled […]

Seoul Wants 6 Nations to Shoulder Burden for Energy Aid to NK

South Korea is thinking of chairing a working group for energy aid to North Korea as the United States is trying to differentiate this round of the six-party talks from a 1994 process, a Seoul official said on Sunday. But Seoul has a firm position that all parties should jointly pay the “tax” for peace, […]

Oil Companies Discuss Energy Challenges

With dwindling oil supplies, pollution concerns and the ever-present threat of gas prices soaring again, talk of new and better ways to fuel our cars, heat and cool our homes, and power our factories has never been greater. What’s more, the conversation is emanating increasingly from a source that’s been surprisingly quiet until recently – […]

Arab nuclear ambitions stir arms race jitters

Arab countries offer economic justifications for exploring nuclear options in long-term energy strategies to conserve dwindling hydrocarbon reserves and meet rising demand as their economies grow and their populations expand. “Some countries have oil and maybe they are not in a hurry to start a programme to build nuclear power plants tomorrow, but they are […]

Storing wind power in cold stores

According to Nature, a European-funded project has be launched to store gigawatts of electricity created from wind into the refrigerated warehouses normally used to store food. As the production of wind energy is variable every day, it cannot be easily accommodated on the electricity grid. So the “Night Wind” project wants to store wind energy […]

British Energy heralds new nuclear age

British Energy, the nuclear generator, has held talks with Europe’s largest power companies about building a new generation of nuclear reactors in the UK. The company has had meetings with executives from the French group EDF and German group RWE, which owns npower in the UK, ahead of next month’s publication of the Government’s White […]

FACTBOX-Nuclear programmes in Middle East

Many Middle Eastern countries, including some which are worried about Iran’s nuclear programme, have declared an interest in developing atomic energy resources. Arab states have long advocated turning the region into a nuclear weapons-free zone, a proposal aimed mainly at Israel, widely believed to hold the Middle East’s only nuclear arsenal. Here are some facts […]

Summit takes a look at a world without oil

So far, the U.S. does not put a value on the cost of greenhouse gas emissions, which means alternative fuel sources continue to be much more expensive than carbon-based ones. Even as new technology is making those alternatives cheaper, it also is making fossil fuels cheaper. It becomes a horse race, with fossil fuels in […]

Waste to Watts: Portable Refinery Transforms Trash into Power

The real “Mr. Fusion,” or “tactical hybrid refinery” to use Army-speak, processes the waste produced by a typical kitchen sciam

90 firms eye Iran blocks

The Islamic Republic, which analysts say needs foreign technology to improve production in its fields, had said it hoped to attract international investment of at least 460 million euros ($599 million) in the blocks. ‘The 17 new blocks that have been presented in the recent Vienna meeting have been welcomed by 90 foreign companies for […]

Noam Chomsky: The US says it is fighting for democracy – but deaf to the Iraqis

On the US motives for staying in Iraq, I can only repeat what I’ve been saying for years. A sovereign Iraq, partially democratic, could well be a disaster for US planners. With a Shia majority, it is likely to continue improving relations with Iran. There is a Shia population right across the border in Saudi […]

U.S. Keeps Pressure on Iran But Decreases Saber Rattling

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates insisted again Friday that, despite persistent reports to the contrary circulating in Washington and around the world, the United States is not planning military action against Iran. washingtonpost

The Olduvai Theory: Terminal Decline Imminent

Richard Duncan has issued an Olduvai update. It is in the form three of small PDFs, hosted at MediaFire. Looks like he’s sticking with 2008 for the “Olduvai Cliff.” (Javascript required to download the files.) 2007 Olduvai Update Figure 1 Figure 2 Update: You can download all three pages in one file at Rapidshare. (Javascript […]

Study: biogas can replace all EU imports of Russian gas by 2020

A very important study now makes the point: the EU has a biogas production potential large enough to replace all natural gas imports from Russia by 2020. The projection is made by the Institut fur Energetik und Umwelt, based in Leipzig, and by the Oko-Instituts Darmstadt. It shows that if current production trends continue, all […]

Exxon Mobil has no more doubts on warming

Big Oil behemoth Exxon Mobil Corp. has dropped any pretense of questioning whether global warming is real. Now the company is seeking to position itself as an active player in efforts to lower greenhouse gases. “The appropriate debate isn’t on whether climate is changing, but rather should be on what we should be doing about […]

E.ON creates company to feed biogas into the natural gas grid

German energy giant E.ON AG, one of the major public utility companies in Europe and the world …Earlier, Ulrich Schmack, an energy advisor to the German government, who also heads the world’s leading biogas plant manufacturer, projected that the biofuel can replace all natural gas imports from Russia by 2030. …Because the biofuel will be […]

Australia: Congestion

Congestion charges should be considered on busy roads as a means of improving road efficiency and reducing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, an inquiry into Australia’s future oil supplies and alternative fuels has recommended. However, congestion charges in central districts, like those levied in London, or that use electronic tolling, would be politically acceptable only […]

Americas oil slide may raise US Mideast dependence

Oil production problems throughout North and South America will hurt US efforts to cut back on Middle Eastern crude imports, energy experts are saying. Steep oil field decline rates in Mexico and Venezuela and delays and outages in offshore US and Canadian areas should lower output from the region this year, countering earlier expectations of […]

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