GM considers bringing mini cars to U.S.

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Tropical losers, northern winners from warming?

OSLO (Reuters) – Northern nations such as Russia or Canada may be celebrating better harvests and less icy winters in coming decades even as rising seas, also caused by global warming, are washing away Pacific island states. A draft U.N. report to be issued in Brussels on April 6 foresees unequal impacts from warming: tropical […]

Climate change, rising oil prices imperil B.C. food supply

VANCOUVER — Climate change and rising oil prices are a threat to B.C.’s ability to feed itself in the future, scientists and planners say. B.C. farmers produce only 48 per cent of the meat, dairy, fruit and vegetables that we consume, according to a report prepared by the B.C. Ministry of Agriculture.The report, titled B.C.’s […]

PEAK OIL: THE END OF THE MODELING PHASE

by A.M. Samsam Bakhtiari 1. Introduction Modeling for ‘Peak Oil’ began seriously in the mid-1990s as the question of worldwide oil production reaching a maximum became a matter of widespread concern in some petroleum circles and academic centers. Among a score of other models, the ‘World Oil Production Capacity’ [WOCAP] model was developed over the […]

Reflective scientist sees a red roof and he wants to paint it white

SYDNEY’S red-tiled roofs should be painted white to help battle global warming. That is one idea of a thermodynamics expert who believes that besides cutting carbon dioxide emissions, we should also be cooling the world by reflecting solar energy. Eric Hu, from Melbourne’s Deakin University, said that while red house roofs absorbed heat from the […]

West-Africa launches ‘African Miscanthus Plantations’ project

A very interesting development is underway in West-Africa. In order to tap the rapidly growing global market for biomass and to strengthen local energy security, West-African countries are launching the ‘African Miscanthus Plantations’ project or ‘Plantations Africaines de Miscanthus’ – PAMI. The project aims to create a network of energy plantations across the region, that […]

Ghana: Energy crisis: where now?

In our front page story of today, The Statesman reports new avenues being explored by Government to resolve the deepening energy crisis, now entering its eighth month. They will hope to raise $750 million on the bond market later this year, to plough back into an energy sector which is about to run dry. As […]

U.S./Saudi/Chinese Five Billion Dollar Energy Deal

Last year King Abdullah traveled to China for his first foreign visit after assuming the throne. The trip was characterized as a “watershed” and, as Jean Francois Seznec told SUSRIS last month, signaled that Saudi Arabia’s future involved “being much closer to Asia.” At the time of the visit there were reports of pending deals […]

EU Photovoltaic solar energy: new map and interactive information

A new map published by the European Commission shows the photovoltaic solar energy potential of different parts of Europe. Photovoltaic Solar Cells convert sunlight directly into electricity. In addition the interactive on-line Photovoltaic Geographical Information System (PVGIS), developed by the Commission’s in-house scientific service, DG Joint Research Centre, allows users to estimate solar energy performance […]

US farmers plant largest area to corn in 63 years for ethanol use

UNITED STATES farmers plan to cash in on the ethanol fuel boom by planting the largest area to corn in 63 years, potentially yielding a record crop and calming fears that renewable fuels will steal grain needed for food and feed, the federal government said. Even with record output, this year’s corn crop could sell […]

EU’s new Central Asia Policy and its Energy Dimension

EU’s interest of the region can be summarized with the crucial points: Energy and stability. Hence, EU has endeavored to progress in her Central Asia policies through these parameters and to achieve her goals has developed new projects around these points. It is possible to gather up these projects under three headlines: TACIS (Technical Assistance […]

Saudi Relations With U.S Cooling

Recently there has been a shift in Saudi King Abdullah’s attitude, behavior, and rhetoric towards the U.S. Based on this, some analysts are reporting that their alliance is crumbling — but is it? In a complex region such as the Middle East, at a time when stability or the lack thereof is dependent on the […]

Why Growth Is Bad, Gardens Good and Cuba Key to Oil-Free Future

Bill McKibben makes it clear what he abhors: Wal-Mart (the scourge of small retailers) and Archer Daniels Midland (the bane of family farms). Instead of a growth-oriented economy, he writes in “Deep Economy,” we need one that meets deep human needs, such as the sense of community that he says has been vanishing from the […]

The implications of peak oil and the shortcomings of alternatives

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How to counter the ‘curse’ of North Sea oil

Economics has been characterised as the “dismal science” and Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, did little to dispel that image with his statement in the Budget that tax revenues from North Sea oil had failed to reach his earlier forecasts. However, taking a broader and longer view, there may be more reasons to be cheerful about […]

Russia’s ‘cool war’ against the US in the Middle East

Moscow’s growing attention to the Middle East continues, part of a new global strategy espoused by a more assertive and ambitious Russia. President Vladimir Putin pays much more attention to the region than his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, ever did. In the last two years, he has paid a historic first visit to Israel, visited oil- […]

China’s wind power generation capacity may top 5 mln kw next yr

China’s installed wind-power generation capacity is likely to top five mln kilowatts next year, two years ahead of what was envisaged in the national development plan, Xinhua news agency reported. forbes

Connecting the dots between energy depletion and the

In the first months after 9-11, I said the terrorist attacks were being used as an excuse to stage an oil coup and establish an oil empire. I stated this in December of 2001, in the article The Background is Oil. In a follow up article, What Next?, looking at oil resources around the world, […]

EU targets hit UK energy strategy

Britain’s energy plans have been thrown into disarray by ambitious European Union targets, the BBC has learned. Ministers had intended to aim to produce 20% of Britain’s electricity from renewable sources by 2020. bbc

Russia, Saudi Arabia sign $100-mln contract to build oil pipeline

A Russian company signed Saturday the first ever contract, worth more than $100 million, to build an oil pipeline in Saudi Arabia with a Saudi company. It is expected that the construction of the Sheyba-Abkayk oil pipeline, whose length exceeds 200 km (124 miles), will start in June and will be completed in 18 months. […]

Iran’s Long Term Energy Problems

While Iran has the world’s second largest reserves of Natural gas and also one of the world’s largest reserves of oil the long term energy situation here is far from bright. This is the life line of its economy yet the Iranian government is investing surprisingly rather small sums in maintaining the infrastructure and or […]

Panel: Warming will end some species

From the micro to the macro, from plankton in the oceans to polar bears in the far north and seals in the far south, global warming has begun changing life on Earth, international scientists will report next Friday. “Changes in climate are now affecting physical and biological systems on every continent,” says a draft obtained […]

New Atlas Details More Than 3.5 Trillion Tons of Possible CO2 Storage Capacity

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Vegetable-Based Ethanol Criticized

The production of ethanol fuel using vegetables has come under increasing international criticism, due to its effect on the prices of various foods and the questionable benefit it provides.A letter written by Cuban President Fidel Castro and published by various Cuban media stated that using food to create fuel is a “sinister idea”, and he […]

German researchers double biogas plant productivity

Some major news just in from Germany, where biogas has become the fastest growing renewable energy segment. Researchers at the Leibniz-Institut fur Agrartechnik in Potsdam-Bornim announce they have developed a new technology that doubles the productivity of biogas digestion. Biopact.

Farmers market or super-mega-grocer? Your decision could change our world

“Properly hopeful.” This elegant phrase appears near the end of Bill McKibben’s new book, “Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.” Properly hopeful also perfectly describes this exhilarating and essential book. To say it plainly: “Deep Economy” should be required reading for every economist and economics student in the developed world; for […]

Economic Comment on peak oil by RBS Chief Economist

ANYONE WHO has seen the film Mad Max will know energy shortages aren’t something we should take lightly. Enough to elicit the breakdown of civil order, apparently! So should we be worried? To answer that question, let me start by taking you back to the 1950s when M King Hubbert – a scientist who worked […]

Food, Climate Change and the Coming Energy Crises

…Across the water, the easy complacency which surrounds the supplyof food was severely tested in September of 2000 when after just a few days of a nation-wide truckers Food and Fossil Fuels When people think of energy shortages and the effects of rising energy costs, they tend to think of possible blackouts, or rising prices […]

Energy-South-Africa: Fuel in the Car at the Expense of Food on the Table?

…Sugrue fears that producing biofuel from maize could affect food security. Maize is the staple food of South Africa, consumed by 80 percent of the population. “One of the biggest criticisms of the biofuels sector is that it could contribute to a shortage of food. This could happen if there is competition for the crops […]

Marseille oil port workers vote to end 18-day strike

MARTIGUES, France: Workers at France’s Fos-Lavera oil hub in Marseille voted yesterday to end their strike on its 18th day as it threatened to shut down refineries and cause a regional fuel shortage, a trade union official said. Workers unanimously backed a draft deal struck with Gaz de France overnight to end the walk-out and […]

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