A solution to fuel shortage: Consume less

I’m glad President Bush recognizes that Americans must do something about our “addiction to oil” and is gung-ho about the prospect of ethanol. I just hope those biofuel fumes aren’t blinding him. They are somewhat less polluting, its true. Biofuels can also help us prolong the lifespan of the world’s wells, which are running out […]

Alternative energy needs to focus on waste recycling

The giddy-eyed proponents of alternative energy bio fuels derived from agricultural commodities received a bit of a wake up call recently when prices of almost all major raw materials such as corn, oil palm, sugarcane, wheat, soya, peanuts and even cassava shot up sharply causing widespread jitters. Mexico had street protests over soaring corn prices, […]

New US view on climate change to impact Asia

That rapidly growing economies such as China and India were not obligated to take similar steps toward emissions curbs under the Tokyo Protocol, only served to allow the U.S. and others to ignore the agreement U.S. President George W. Bush Siddiqi points out that it

Regulator’s New Focus on Emissions Rankles Offshore Energy

The Minerals Management Service is exploring whether to increase the scope of its regulation of greenhouse gas emissions in the oil and gas industry, a move that has producers worried their actions could be linked to global warming. A proposed rule would direct offshore producers to track the flaring and venting of natural gas, which […]

India: Harvesting energy from the sun

Though India has an enormous renewable energy potential, the current installed capacity of around 8100-MW derived from renewable energy sources including sun, wind and biomass constitute about 7% of the total installed power generation capacity in the country, even though India is one of the pioneers in utilizing a part of its huge reserve of […]

Canada greenhouse gas ‘violators’ would pay under Liberal plan

OTTAWA (AFP) – Polluters releasing more than their share of the so-called greenhouse gases responsible for global warming would be slapped with fines under a plan unveiled Friday by opposition Liberals. The plan — which could come into effect under a Liberal government from January 2008 if the party is returned to power — would […]

Analysts: $3 gasoline unlikely in summer

Elementary school principal Randy Busscher of Holland, Mich. is braced for gasoline prices of $3 a gallon or more by summer break. Analysts say Busscher and other U.S. motorists may be more worried than necessary, however. Absent a major Gulf Coast hurricane, unexpected international strife or a wave of refinery woes, average U.S. gasoline prices […]

Author points out signs at energy crossroads

SPOKANE – The majority of Paul Roberts’ presentation at Washington State University’s All Extension Conference addressed America’s role in responding to the world’s energy crisis, but he acknowledged something more important than fueling cars or industry. “All these other things we are trying to hold onto are secondary,” he said. “If we lose food security, […]

Finnish biofuel alliance

Neste Oil is to join forces with paper and forest products company Stora Enso to develop technology for producing new-generation biofuels from wood residues. The first step will be to design and build a demonstration plant at Stora Enso’s Varkaus Mill in Finland. The plant, owned on a 50/50 basis by the two companies, is […]

Students get a glimpse of future without oil

Local high school students are on the road to breaking the oil addiction they’re inheriting from their parents’ generation. Sixteen students at the Colorado Springs School are studying energy for a month, from fossil fuels to renewable resources. After learning about coal, crude oil, natural gas, nuclear energy, biomass, solar power, wind power, hydrogen and […]

Russia: Pipeline Deal Raises Energy Dependence Concerns

Russia, Greece, and Bulgaria have signed a long-awaited deal to build a trans-Balkan pipeline that will boost oil supplies to Western markets. The pipeline will ship Russian oil from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, avoiding the overcrowded Bosphorus Strait. But there are fears the project will increase Europe’s reliance on Russian energy supplies.Radio Free […]

Green Energy Enthusiasts Are Also Betting on Fossil Fuels

Silicon Valley’s technology investors have taken to the ramparts, threatening to tear down the oil and gas industries’ dominance with innovations that use ethanol, solar and wind. A chief champion of the cause has been Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of the marquee venture capital firms. Its principals, John Doerr in particular, have passionately […]

Mexican national oil monopoly in crisis on 69th anniversary of expropriation

Depleted reserves, crumbling pipelines, outdated technology and billions of dollars (euros) in debt. It doesn’t seem much to celebrate. While Petroleos Mexicanos executives and union leaders prepare to deliver patriotic speeches and sing the national anthem at Sunday’s 69th anniversary of the nationalization of Mexico’s oil sector, energy experts say Pemex needs to stop looking […]

This was world’s warmest recorded winter

This has been the world’s warmest winter since record-keeping began more than a century ago, the U.S. government agency that tracks weather reported on Thursday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said the combined global land and ocean surface temperature from December through February was at its highest since records began in 1880.Scientific American

China’s Wen hedges on climate change response

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday promised a national plan to address climate change but avoided offering emissions caps, speaking after a parliament session where global warming barely scraped on to the agenda. Fast-industrialising China is the world’s second-largest producer of greenhouse gases, which scientists warn are behind rising average global temperatures that threaten weather […]

Africa’s Major Aluminum Producer Closes Amid Ghana Energy Crisis

Executives at Ghana’s Volta Aluminum Company (VALCO) say they are not sure how long the luminum producer will remain closed. But the closure is expected to send a majority of the company’s 700 employees home. The problem is rainfall. Poor rains have led to diminished water levels in the Akomsombo Hydro-electric dam, Ghana’s main source […]

Energy efficiency and economic growth?

A hopeful Friday note: a significant downloadable report (PDF) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. It was just brought to my attention, but it’s from 2004. Its message bears repeating: energy efficiency/technologies have the potential to dramatically reduce energy use while supporting economic growth. This European agency estimates that the E.U. could accommodate a […]

Easy Solutions to Energy Problems

How do we assure ourselves of a reliable supply of energy at a reasonable cost without doing more damage to the planet? It’s actually pretty easy. What’s truly in short supply is not energy, but political will. That, at least, was my takeaway from a lively series of discussions today organized by the Council on […]

FuelCell Energy Generates a Spark

A few weeks back, I read a report entitled Clean Energy Trends 2007, which predicted the rate of growth in various alternative-energy sectors over the next decade. While solar, wind, and biofuel were projected to grow to only three or four times their current size, the fuel-cell sector was expected to shoot from $1.4 billion […]

Huge gas field found in China

Oil giant Sinopec has announced its discovery of a huge gas field in southwest China’s Sichuan province, China Securities Journal reported Friday. The natural gas reserve of the field is very likely to exceed that of Puguang, a gas field also in Sichuan province with proven reserves expected to reach 500 billion cubic meters by […]

Political comments on the draft of the Iraqi oil law

The International Oil Companies (IOCs), the US and UK administrations, and the IMF have to recognize that they will not be able to enforce an oil law which seems to be no less than the old concessionary model in a new guise. So even if the IOCs and the US/UK administrations succeed in getting the […]

Peak Oil Task Force recommends Portland cut fossil fuel use

The Portland Peak Oil Task Force, a twelve member citizen committee appointed by Portland’s City Council in May 2006, today delivered a strongly worded report advising that the City accelerate efforts to curb the use of oil and natural gas The report’s key recommendation is that the City take action to reduce fossil fuel use […]

Can Peak Oil Save Us?

Meanwhile world oil production has been flat for two years now, even as increasing demand from the US, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East has priced the third world out of the little oil they have been using. Peak Oil means that half the world’s usable reserves are gone, but more importantly, that falling […]

Peak Oil Passnotes: Return to the OPEC Corral

It was that time of year again when Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) like to get together and convince us they are in control of the oil markets. But they are not. One of the things not often considered in the general run of the energy markets is the idea of the price of […]

Auto Industry Leaders Tell Congress They Would Support Mobile Source CO2 Caps in

In testimony before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality this week, the heads of the United Autoworkers, GM, Toyota North America, Ford, and the Chrysler Group all agreed, in response to a question from the committee, that they would support national caps on mobile source CO2 emissions, depending on the details of the […]

Study: Warming Causing Decline in Global Crop Production

Over a span of two decades, warming temperatures have caused annual losses of roughly $5 billion for major food crops, according to a new study by researchers at the Carnegie Institution and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Comments are interesting greencarcongress

A look at grass as a dedicated energy crop for biogas

The British Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has released an interesting report on the potential of using common rye grass as a dedicated energy crop for the production of biogas. We report on it here, because the results offer clues for a future scenario of large-scale grass-based biogas production in the tropics, where biomass […]

Warmer, Warmer

It is strange and striking that climate change activists have not committed any acts of terrorism. After all, terrorism is for the individual by far the modern world I don

Carbon Emissions Concerns Fueling Nuclear Renaissance

…Yesterday, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) released an interdisciplinary faculty group study examining coal This past Tuesday, the Committee on Industry and Trade in Sweden

Weekly Offshore Rig Review: OPEC’s Big Flex

…One of the key realizations that comes out of this look at climbing oil prices is that OPEC can do very little to stop, or even slow, rising oil prices. In fact, when prices reached all-time highs in 2006, OPEC officially did nothing at all (although its individual member nations were very much involved in […]

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