Tanfield Lands First Contracts for Edison Electric Van

Tanfield has officially launched its Edison electric van and has secured its first contracts for initial orders of the Edison with Sainsbury greencarcongress

U.N. panel lists climate-change cures

The draft report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s working group on mitigation, a report whose final version will be issued May 4 in Bangkok, lists dozens of available technologies that could significantly reduce global-warming gases. Some of the most important: ENERGY SUPPLY Fuel switching from coal to gas, nuclear power, hydropower, solar, wind, […]

BMW woos support for hydrogen

BMW AG says it is talking with the Chinese government about hydrogen-powered vehicles, trying to win Chinese support to promote hydrogen as a mainstream new energy solution. “We worked closely with the government, helping to form a legal framework for hydrogen vehicles, including registration and infrastructure buildup,” said Karl-Heinz Schmid, president of BMW China Automotive […]

Carbon Gas Is Explored as a Source of Ethanol

A New Zealand company said Monday that it had secured financing from an investor in Silicon Valley to produce ethanol from an untapped source nytimes

Virgin plans to fly 747 on biofuel in 2008

The first commercial aircraft to be powered by biofuel will fly next year in what could be a significant step towards airlines reducing their oil consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. Virgin Atlantic is to announce today that one of its 747 jumbo jets will be used to demonstrate that biofuels can power an aircraft. The […]

GM Exec Touts Push Toward Renewable Energy to Fuel Autos

A top General Motors Corp. executive said Monday that the nation should accelerate the push toward renewable energy to fuel automobiles and said the conversion to ethanol as a leading contributor is “entirely realistic” in a few years. Lutz said that ethanol could become a major energy component within a few years if energy policy […]

Pemex Says March Crude Output Falls 5% From Year Ago

(Bloomberg) — Petroleos Mexicanos, the state-owned oil monopoly, said crude production fell 5 percent in March from a year earlier, the eighth straight monthly decline as the company depletes its largest oilfield, Cantarell. Daily output was 3.18 million barrels last month, down from 3.35 million in March 2006 and higher than February’s 3.15 million barrels, […]

Farther, faster? Not anymore

Progress in transportation is stalling as technology lags and suburban sprawl ties things up. The air traffic control system “is based on 1950s architecture. It was cutting-edge during the era of Ozzie and Harriet, but not today,” James C. May, president of the Air Transport Association of America, told Congress last month. “Airways, unfortunately, increasingly […]

THINKING MARKETS: Just WHO is Buying America? And… With What?

II was left with a feeling of uneasiness in attempting to figure out what is going on in the bigger picture. Basically there were two unanswered questions; who was doing all the buying? And

We can’t go on living like this

We say we want to save the environment, and to have peace, and to eliminate poverty. And we do – but only until we see what this requires. The fundamental cause of the big global problems threatening us now is simply over-consumption. The rate at which we in rich countries are using up resources is […]

Running on E: Industry reflects on Ontario fuel capacity

…The crackspread — the difference between the rack-wholesale price and the price of crude (and where oil companies’ profit margins lie) — is at all time high, explains Rosnak. “So do they get on the bandwagon and build a refinery or do they say to themselves ‘what happens if there are too many refineries? We’re […]

You Are What You Grow

A few years ago, an obesity researcher at the University of Washington named Adam Drewnowski ventured into the supermarket to solve a mystery. He wanted to figure out why it is that the most reliable predictor of obesity in America today is a person As a rule, processed foods are more

Global warming imperils Himalayan glaciers

BEIJING (Reuters) – Global warming could wipe out large areas of glaciers in the Himalayas and surrounding highlands, threatening livelihoods across much of Asia, climate scientists said in Beijing on Monday. Rising temperatures fuelled by greenhouse gases from industry and agriculture have already shrunk glaciers on the mountains dividing China and South Asia, experts say. […]

Why I’m Bullish On Coal Stocks

Coal is a hard, black byproduct of fossilized plants. Coal accounts for 25 percent of global energy consumption, significantly less than crude oil (39 percent), but more than natural gas (22 percent). Coal is cheap, abundant compared to crude oil and natural gas and used mainly in electricity production and in the manufacturing of steel. […]

Consume Like There

Would someone please tell the Sierra Club Exec Board that the idea of an Teaming up with ASES to present the study to Congress, the Sierra Club enthusiastically wrote that

The answer isn’t oil, either

Retired petroleum engineer Michael Kasnick (“The answer isn’t ethanol,” April 5) seems to think the best way to address possible gas shortages is to provide more sweetheart deals to the oil companies, what he calls “increase[d] access to our domestic oil and gas resources.” Since oil companies are free to drill on private land at […]

McCain: Energy, warming are twin threats

WASHINGTON – Republican presidential hopeful John McCain is calling the United States’ foreign-oil reliance and global warming twin threats the country must aggressively confront. “National security depends on energy security,” the Arizona senator says in a speech he is to give Monday in which he suggests the country can’t achieve either if it remains dependent […]

Alternative-fuel cars star at Shanghai show

Chinese automakers looking to gain a foothold in new technologies SHANGHAI, China – One experimental clean-energy car runs on natural gas. Another uses ethanol distilled from corn. A third has a zero-emissions electric motor powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. These alternative vehicles were created not by a global automaker but by China At a […]

UK Treasury Committee concerned about falling UK North Sea oil revenues

The UK’s Treasury Committee said it is concerned about the ‘very significant’ downward revision of forecast North Sea oil revenues in this year’s budget, and warned this could pose a risk to overall future tax revenues. ‘We are concerned that the Treasury’s estimate at Budget 2007 is so much lower than its forecast in the […]

Work on China-Myanmar oil pipeline to start in 2007

Construction of the China-Myanmar oil pipeline is expected to start in 2007, Chinese oil giant Sinopec (SEHK:0386, SSX:600028) has announced. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) approved the Sino-Myanmar oil pipeline linking Myanmar’s deep-water port of Sittwe with Kunming, the capital of China’s southwestern Yunnan Province, at the beginning of April. In the meantime, […]

Ethanol is a waste of energy

Despite mounting evidence that ethanol is about as useful as a flux capacitor, Gov. Bill Ritter is ensuring that Colorado will become dependent on this “alternative” energy. No need for debate. No need to heed the market. No need to explore viability or consequences. Executive orders will do the trick. It seems elected officials need […]

Crunch time for Hitler’s fuel

OK, so right away the headline puts a negative spin on “liquid coal” technology. Plenty of other nations have turned coal into a liquid that’s essentially diesel fuel, only one made from coal rather than oil. Such as Imperial Japan. And apartheid South Africa. It’s a fact the fuel’s critics love to highlight. But as […]

Seismic firms see business rise with search for oil, gas

The ongoing global rush to explore for new sources of hydrocarbons, fueled by higher prices, has contributed to hectic activity at companies like Dawson Geophysical, Schlumberger Ltd. and Petroleum Geo-Services ASA, all of which perform high-tech seismic surveys for oil companies. Finding and gaining access to new reservoirs is an increasingly difficult task, taking oil […]

Uncontrollable Price Rise can Slow Down Global LNG Demand

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Gasoline at $4 Coming to a Pump Near You

Whether it’s $50 to fill up your Prius or $130 for the Ford Expedition, $4-a-gallon gasoline is coming to a pump near you. Fuel prices are rising at a pace not seen since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita knocked out a third of the U.S. oil refining industry in 2005. Gasoline consumption is climbing twice as […]

India to keep energy demand growth below GDP pace

India expects its energy demand to remain strong, but increased energy efficiency may keep the pace of consumption growth below economic expansion, a senior government official said on Monday. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, said increased energy availability was required to fuel an expected sustainable economic growth of 9 percent a […]

Fuelled by the oil sands, a new rift over royalties

Alberta’s budget painted a bleak outlook for the future of the province’s oil and natural gas royalties. Specifically, the province’s take from its massive oil sands was projected to fall by half within three years, even as production is surging and energy companies are booking their best-ever profits. The issue is set to move from […]

Sainsbury’s delivers a greener van fleet

Sainsbury’s is going electric today as it takes part in the launch of a new zero-emission van for home deliveries The supermarket chain has ordered an initial eight Edison electric vans for its Sainsbury’s Online fleet. This is part of a green commitment, which aims to switch 20pc of urban deliveries to electric vehicles by […]

GM’s New Fuel-Cell Car: freighted with hydrogen’s flaws

Last week General Motors (GM) unveiled a hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered version of its Chevrolet Volt concept, a family of electric cars that get a portion of their energy from being plugged into the electrical grid. The first version, announced in January, married plug-in electric drive to a gasoline or ethanol generator that can recharge the battery. But […]

China Says Global Warming Threatens Development

Global warming could devastate China’s development, the nation’s first official survey of climate change warns, while insisting economic growth must come before greenhouse gas cuts. Hotter average global temperatures fueled by greenhouse gases mean that different regions of China are likely to suffer spreading deserts, worsening droughts and floods, shrinking glaciers and rising seas, the […]

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