George Monbiot Calls for 5 year freeze on biofuels

It used to be a matter of good intentions gone awry. Now it is plain fraud. The governments using biofuel to tackle global warming know that it causes more harm than good. But they plough on regardless. In theory, fuels made from plants can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by cars and trucks. […]

Is bioethanol a sustainable fuel or a threat to food for the poor?

With global warming and the spectre of a looming worldwide shortage of fossil fuels, the increased use of alternative fuels has tended to be welcomed wherever inroads have been made. Not so in Brazil, where, according to Reuters, the Roman Catholic Church has warned that the rapid increase in ethanol production from sugar cane could […]

China car firms gear up for booming sales

Shanghai’s urban planning museum has a useful exhibit – a series of photographs taken from the same spot, now, and 20 years ago. The transformation is startling. Where once there were muddy lanes, now concrete highways soar. In two short decades, roads that were crammed with bicycles have given way to highways choked with cars. […]

Flexible Battery Power

A paper-like, polymer based rechargeable battery has been made by Japanese scientists. sciencedaily

Is Solar UV Frying Fish?

Marine and freshwater organisms could be facing damage due to increasing levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation, according to a United Nations (UN) commissioned review. There could also be wider implications for climate change, since if UV damage cuts marine ecosystem productivity, the oceansAdditionally, the annual phytoplankton boom, which supports the entire Antarctic aquatic food chain, […]

Fixing Iraq

Between revenue from oil exports and foreign aid, over $100 billion has been pledged to Iraq fpif

‘Juiced-up’ Sugar-Fueled Battery Could Power Portable Electronics

Juicing up your cell phone or iPod may take on a whole new meaning in the future. Researchers at Saint Louis University in Missouri have developed a fuel cell battery that runs on virtually any sugar source physorg

Universities Work To Cut Cost Of Solar Power

The three and a half year project, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), will investigate a number of new and novel solar cell designs, in an attempt to produce a more efficient system for generating green energy. The cells will be made from both organic polymeric carbon-based materials and small particles […]

China, Norway, U.N. sign climate change agreement

China, Norway and the U.N. Development Program signed an agreement on Monday to develop programs to combat the effects of climate change in China’s rural areas, including the melting of glaciers in Tibet. The programs will help provincial governments assess potential risks caused by climate change and develop ways to respond, the UNDP said in […]

New ‘biofuel cell’ produces electricity from hydrogen in plain air

A pioneering eurekalert

Edwards Unveils an Energy Plan with Substance

Some key aspects of the Edwards Energy Plan include a cap on greenhouse pollution in 2010 and an 80 percent reduction by 2050 — consistent with the dictates of the latest climate science. He would use an economy-wide, cap-and-trade system and sell a portion of the pollution permits to raise $10 billion a year for […]

Amid security risks, China may lead way for Iraqi oil

China has sat out the Iraq war, but it could be the first to take advantage when the Iraqi government finishes a law opening up its oil fields to international companies. The Iraqi oil legislation, expected to be approved by July, will open the door for the government to sign contracts for exploration and production […]

Petrobras May Confirm Campos Basin Oil Discovery, Globo Says

Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, is close to confirming the discovery of a “gigantic” field of light-grade crude under the Campos Basin, the Globo daily newspaper reported, without saying where it got the information. bloomberg

Exxon Sees Technology, Local Needs as MidEast Key

Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) is betting that soaring domestic energy demand among the booming economies of the Middle East will spur regional leaders toward offering improved access to their energy resources, with technology the key that may unlock the door. International oil companies searching for hydrocarbons are struggling to secure exploration rights in much of […]

The Oil Drum: Water in the Gas Tank (Further Forensics on Saudi Oil Supply)

I’d like to start out this analysis by creating a lettering system for regions of interest in the Saudi production curve. The hope is to give us a common terminology for what we are referring to. I have lettered each separate feature (as I see it – we could always subdivide later if needed), so […]

OPEC Dictates Higher Prices, Scarcity as Crude Rises

March 26 (Bloomberg) — Saudi Arabia is shipping less oil to customers. OPEC by February reduced daily output by 1 million barrels. Global inventories this year fell the most in a decade. Credit Ali al-Naimi, oil minister of Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest exporter, who told OPEC members that production cuts would stop a six-month […]

Review Essay: The View from the Peak

…So what can be said about peak oil today? Richard Heinberg and Leonardo Maugeri provide some solid answers – and radically different conclusions. The Party’s Over is one of that increasing number of ‘doom and gloom’ books warning us about a coming energy crunch. Heinberg, who was writing about issues of sustainability long before it […]

Carbon Trading: History Repeating Itself?

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The Catholic Church was roundly criticized Let’s see how this works: Reducing your “carbon footprint,” or the amount of energy you consume, starts with buying carbon credits. In other words, your money goes to a “carbon broker” who promises that, after taking a hefty commission, he will find a way to reduce carbon […]

South Africa: Petrol and diesel imports to surge

Durban – South Africa will import about 1.2 billion litres of diesel, petrol and other refined petroleum products this year to meet demand from motorists and industry that local refineries cannot satisfy. The rising demand for fuel has raised concern about the capacity of ports to handle significantly larger volumes of refined product and the […]

Japan’s Energy Wisdom: Green and growing

AN ISLAND nation with no domestic oil supply, Japan offers a glimpse into the world’s energy future, when oil reserves decline to unsustainable levels and alternatives are the only alternative. Unlike the vast and swaggering United States, Japan has confronted the reality of limited oil, especially in its energy conservation efforts. According to the International […]

APPLE leader inspires others to help planet

A Nevada City woman transformed her life by trading in her SUV for a motorcycle, replacing all the lightbulbs in her house with energy-efficient bulbs, taking in a roommate, cutting down on meat consumption and saying goodbye to her cell phone. “These are really easy, manageable changes that make a difference. That’s all we ask […]

Clean fuel’s internal combustion

Imagine legislators in Washington being driven around in steam-powered cars, indicting heavy polluting car companies, holding federal hearings on reducing carbon emissions, and introducing legislation to ban the internal combustion engine within 10 years. Sound like an optimistic future? Try 35 years ago. Under gloomy forecasts concerning peak oil and global warming, the push for […]

Energy activists snipe at rivals

Washington But with limited government research-and-development money available for ways to replace oil, any gain for one technology is a loss for the others. So the criticism is flying in all directions. Solar energy? A retired University of Connecticut physicist who advocates increased development of nuclear power calls solar energy “a fraud.” Ethanol? Some critics […]

The lights are out all over oil-rich Nigeria

Nigeria is rich in oil but short of energy, and at night the lights are out and darkness reigns for most of the 140 million inhabitants. Hundreds of small and medium-scale businesses are being strangled by an almost total lack of power in a country which is the sixth-biggest exporter of oil in the world. […]

ONGC, Petrobras eye Australian blocks – ONGC official

Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd. (ONGC) is in talks with Brazil’s Petrobras to jointly bid for oil and gas blocks in Australia and in India, a senior ONGC official said on Monday. “We have a few acreages in Brazil and are looking for equity oil abroad,” exploration director D.K. Pande told Reuters. “We may […]

The Cold In Mexico, the Cartels and Cantarell

On March 18 the government, as always, celebrated another anniversary of the 1938 oil expropriation, which nationalized MexicoMexidata

Venezuela’s boom will fade as oil prices ease

The world is addicted to oil, as everyone knows. But there are few places with an addiction as deep, and as potentially destabilizing, as in Venezuela. Consider that Venezuela pumps an estimated 2.5 million barrels of oil per day, about 3 per cent of global supply. At $60 per barrel, that’s close to $150 million […]

Ethanol boom creates dilemma for farmers and small towns

Ethanol’s popularity as reached an all-time high. With 114 plants nationwide and 80 more on the way, the country’s ethanol output is expected to double by 2009. But pockets of opposition have turned up because of concerns over pollution and the risk of overextending water supplies. Corn _ which is what most U-S ethanol is […]

From Pipe Dream to Pipe Reality

Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to Moscow on Monday will provide ample opportunity for Russian and Chinese leaders to sit down and assess the past, present and future of energy cooperation between the two countries. While Moscow and Beijing already work together in a variety of areas including trade, arms and diplomacy, energy has the […]

US-Iran ”Game of Chicken”: Iran Stays Firm despite UN Sanctions

The Game of Chicken, is a model of conflict betweeen two players in game theory, It has both geopolitical and military applications. In in the Game of Chicken, “the outcome where neither player yields is the worst possible one for both players.” GlobalResearch

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