Taiwan power outage looms, some fear

TAIPEI: China’s missiles may not be the biggest danger to Taiwan. A possible power shortage could cause blackouts within three years and weaken the nation’s economy. Power production is failing to keep pace with demand because of a ban on new nuclear plants and delays in completing projects already under way, says Jeffrey Bor, a […]

Climate Change – A Challenge for oil and gas Companies

Oil and gas companies are one of the major emitters, if not the major emitter, of carbon in the world today. With climate change now the greatest environmental challenge, it has become imperative to reduce carbon emissions dramatically in the future. Therefore, oil and gas companies are facing one of the biggest upheavals they have […]

Sandia, A Step Closer to Achieving High Yield Nuclear Fusion

“This is the most significant advance in primary power generation in many decades,” says Keith Matzen, director of Sandia’s Pulsed Power Center. The new system, called a linear transformer driver (LTD), was created by researchers at the Institute of High Current Electronics in Tomsk, Russia, in collaboration with colleagues at Sandia. azom

Uranium Mining Stocks: Time Bomb Ticking

Odds favor the eventual disintegration of hundreds of uranium mining juniors over the next few years. More than 500 companies now claim to be exploring for uranium, developing one or more uranium projects or producing uranium. As 2010 approaches, 90 percent of those companies will have changed their name and/or moved onto something new. Investors […]

Sweet smell of success for biofuel expert

Sugar-powered batteries could be the renewable, eco-friendly power source the planet is gasping forWhen Shelley Minteer was working with hydrogen fuel cells, she was always afraid of accidents. Growing worries about the safety issues while teaching students eventually saw her interests turning elsewhere. Minteer is now an assistant professor of chemistry at Saint Louis University […]

Coal Power Worsening Australia Drought – Green Group

Australia’s coal industry, one of the world’s biggest, is aggravating the country’s worst drought in centuries, which may raise questions about expanding production, the head of an environmental group said on Wednesday.“Coal-fired power stations are contributing to the problem of water overuse in Southern Australia,” he told Reuters. “There’s conflict between power station use of […]

Drought Threatens Australia’s Hydropower Scheme

Australia’s biggest renewable electricity source, the Snowy Hydro power scheme, may have to shut down major generating turbines due to the nation’s crippling 10-year drought. In a move that local authorities feared could reduce supply of power to the capital Canberra, and major cities Sydney and Melbourne, some of Snowy Hydro’s operations could be stopped […]

The Case for Burying Charcoal

Several states in this country and a number of Scandinavian countries are trying to supplant some coal-burning by burning biomass such as wood pellets and agricultural residue. Unlike coal, biomass is carbon-neutral, releasing only the carbon dioxide that the plants had absorbed in the first place. But a new research paper published online in the […]

China must end its dependency on coal: Greenpeace

Industrialised countries must support China’s efforts to end its dependency on coal, which is highly pollutant, environmental group Greenpeace told an Asia Europe meeting (ASEM) in Copenhagen on Wednesday. “Denmark and the European countries must call on the Asian Development Bank to phase out fossil fuels and shift all its energy funding to sustainable renewable […]

India’s energy dilemma: Coal-powered growth vs climatic

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its recent findings on Asia, pinpointed the Indian subcontinent as the region that will suffer the most from global warming. The panel’s nightmarish predictions have caused some unease among policy-makers who have been arguing that India must rely heavily on coal power for the next […]

Foreign oil firms give control of projects to Venezuela

Four major oil companies Wednesday agreed to cede control of Venezuela’s last remaining privately run oil projects to President Hugo Chavez’s government, but ConocoPhillips resisted, prompting warnings that its fields could be taken over outright. Markets have waited to see whether the companies, which process heavy oil in the Orinoco River basin, would remain as […]

National oil companies lack security knowledge

The awareness of growing risk to energy security and its implications is relatively low among national oil companies (NOCs) that control more than 90 per cent of the world’s oil reserves, according to a study released yesterday by Marsh, a global risk and insurance services firm. Speaking to Gulf News from New York, Brian Storms, […]

India, Japan to jointly hunt for oil, gas in fresh pastures

India and Japan will together explore oil and gas in a third country to enhance global energy security and build lasting partnerships in the sector. This was decided at the first ever meeting of ‘India-Japan Energy Dialogue’ held in Tokyo on April 23. The dialogue was launched with the aim of promoting comprehensive co-operation in […]

The Spin Over the “Joint Nuclear Energy Action Plan”

I suppose that those of us who troll this site regularly are used to having President Bush pull the wool over our eyes. But in my over 20 years in journalism — including a stint as an editorial writer and book editor that blessed me with the trade’s brassiest awards, from the Pulitzer Prize on […]

CA Threatens to Sue EPA Over Greenhouse Gas Regulations

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday said his administration will sue the Environmental Protection Agency if it fails to act more quickly on California’s request to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles. Responding Wednesday to Schwarzenegger’s letter, EPA spokeswoman Jennifer Wood said the agency was moving forward with California’s request. She said a final decision will […]

The Other Oil-Rich Gulf

While most media attention on African oil focuses on the sensational, spectacular or just plain lurid, important developments are taking place at sea. Widely considered to be one of the most promising new oil sources in the world, the 34 billion barrels of proven reserves buried in the deep waters off Africa nationalinterest

Peak Oil Crisis: By Order of the Governor

Earlier this month, the Governor of Virginia issued what is sure to be one of many orders, laws and regulations mandating greater efficiency in the use of energy. Although justified in terms of saving taxpayer money, wise use of natural resources and reducing greenhouse gases, the order serves equally well as a preemptory strike against […]

Ali Samsam Bakhtiari and peak oil

According to Dr. Bakhtiari, the world has now reached and passed the point of Peak Oil. Bakhtiari has recently published an essay entitled “The Century of Roots.” Bakhtiari has reviewed the available evidence on world oil production and believes that world output peaked absolutely in 2006. Here is what he is saying: energybulletin

Oil prices expected to drop next year

But there are signs that crude oil may be headed down from its current level of about US$65 (about P400) per barrel at some point next year. “The fact is that demand is very weak, the non-OPEC supply is catching up, so you’re going to see more pressure on OPEC to cut back over time,” […]

Kuwait: $60-plus Oil ‘Damaging’ in Long Term

Sustained oil prices above $60 a barrel will deter global oil demand and harm producers and consumers in the long term, an executive of state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation said Wednesday. But al-Zayer said that the environment of high prices and geopolitical tension was pushing consumer nations toward diversifying their energy sources and decreasing their reliance […]

Amount of Corn Stover Available for Ethanol Production Must Be Reduced

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Cheap milk costs dear

We’re used to the poorest nations having crises over food security, but there was a stark warning this week of how precarious supplies may quickly become in even the richest countries, as the impact of climate change is felt. The Australian government said it would have to turn off the irrigation to half the country’s […]

Selling Survival Part I: Where to look for opportunity

…So if as a result, you see, as I do, the potential crash of the entire economic system upon which this model hinges, then you might agree that basing a new industry or business idea on such shifting sand, while perpetuating a soon-to-be outdated business model that separates and destroys the family structure, enslaves communities, […]

Is it time to raise gas taxes?

A gallon of unleaded regular gas was averaging $2.85 nationwide Tuesday, $3.34 in California and $3.47 in San Francisco, according to AAA. Experts say drivers could be paying $4 per gallon at the pump before long. But is that high enough? This week we’ll look at the thorny issue of gas taxes and whether a […]

Thomas Homer-Dixon: Terror in the Weather Forecast

DOES climate change threaten international peace and security? The British government thinks it does. As this month But these skeptics are wrong. Evidence is fast accumulating that, within our children

Jeff Vail: Five Geopolitical Feedback-Loops in Peak Oil

It is quite common to hear Existing peaking models are based on the logistics curves demonstrated by past peaking in individual fields or oil producing regions. Global peaking is an entirely different phenomenon

Thunder Horse Breaks a Leg

…BP executives have waited for the oil and profits to gush forth, yet this behemoth has never produced any oil or gas, and the current plan is that it may begin production in late 2008. It was slapped around by two hurricanes in 2005. This delayed initial production for months, which has now become years. […]

‘Dealing with Peak Oil & Climate Change’ in London

The relationship between Climate Change and Peak Oil, and how to deal with the two threats, will be discussed at a special event titled Arguably the two greatest global threats of the 21st century are Climate Change and the decline of global oil supplies, the onset of which is called Peak Oil. Climate Change is […]

Fuel-Efficient Cars Dent States’ Road Budgets

Cars and trucks are getting more fuel-efficient, and that’s good news for drivers. But it’s a headache for state highway officials, who depend on gasoline taxes to build and maintain roads. The Federal Highway Administration estimates that by 2009 the tax receipts that make up most of the federal highway trust fund will be $21 […]

Hansen: Implications of ”peak oil” for atmospheric CO2 and climate

Peaking of global oil production may have a large effect on future atmospheric CO2 amount and climate change, depending upon choices made for subsequent energy sources. We suggest that, if estimates of oil and gas reserves by the Energy Information Administration are realistic, it is feasible to keep atmospheric CO2 from exceeding approximately 450 ppm, […]

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