Solution for Iran: Subversion or Military Strike?

The terror-sponsoring government of Iran is rushing to develop a nuclear weapon (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,430649,00.html). There is no doubt that the Mullahs in Teheran will be ready and willing to use it, preferably on a Western target, to assert their supremacy in the Islamic world. Knowing a threat exists is the key to defeating it. However, once […]

Questions loom as auto industry vows to boost ‘flex-fuel’ vehicles

General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and the Chrysler Group have vowed to ramp up production of vehicles that can run on either gasoline or ethanol blends at a time when energy security and global warming concerns are top issues for policy makers. But the auto industry’s ability to successfully bring the so-called “flex-fuel” vehicles […]

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Business profile: For my next mission: save the world

Important because Mr de Rivaz is a man on a mission. Ostensibly that mission is to persuade the UK Government to let EDF build and operate nuclear power stations and make a healthy return on its investment, thank you very much. As for being “that colour” himself, his concession is to ride a bike. There […]

Spike in gas prices puts E85 back in spotlight

The E85 pump at the Bellmart gas station in La Porte has gotten a workout since gasoline prices spiked, cashier Pam Angeledes said. Motorists are pumping the gasoline alternative into as many as 40 vehicles a day, double the number of a few months earlier, she added. The 85-percent ethanol, 15-percent petroleum mix sold for […]

Go Green With Buffett, Lynch and O’Shaughnessy

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently unveiled its quarterly list of the top 25 “Green Power Partners,” highlighting companies, institutions and government agencies that are spending the most on renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power. The company at the top of the list is one you might not expect: PepsiCo (nyse: PEP […]

New Bill Could Make Solar Energy More Affordable

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Biofuel market stifled: group

AUSTRALIA is falling behind the rest of the world on biofuels due to sluggish government policy and inaction by oil companies, according to the Australian Renewable Fuels Association. Executive director Bob Gordon said Australia could produce 700 million litres of ethanol and biodiesel annually theage

Why should fuel cells be a hard sell?

In a room full of people working to create a fuel-cell and hydrogen industry, Sam Logan posed the question: thestate

The Uranium Juniors and Majors: A Symbiotic Relationship

Fears about peak oil and the concept of uranium as a cleaner energy source have coupled in the industryConsequently, the juniors are aggressively exploring for the next uranium ore body. But as uranium decays, it emits radiation. For that reason uranium mining is subject to the most stringent regulations of any mining industry. The licensing […]

Birth of a New Wedge

…Agrichar is the term not for the biomass fuel, but for what is left over after the energy is removed: a charcoal-based soil amendment. In simple terms, the agrichar process takes dry biomass of any kind and bakes it in a kiln to produce charcoal. The process is called pyrolysis. Various gases and bio-oils are […]

Heat on parents to have fewer kids to cool planet

A LOWER birthrate would help cut carbon dioxide emissions, according to a British report. The Optimum Population Trust warns that each Briton uses nearly 750 tonnes of carbon dioxide in a lifetime, an effect equivalent to 620 return flights between London and New York.Based on a “social cost” of carbon dioxide of

Big Oil in Tiny Cambodia: The Burden of New Wealth

SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia Top officials, including Prime Minister Hun Sen, have been feeding the excitement this year, offering extravagantly optimistic estimates that the oil money could start to flow within two to three years. But all of this is not necessarily good news. For many struggling countries, like Nigeria and Chad, oil has been a poisoned […]

Peak Oil and U.S. Representative Vernon Ehlers

This morning, I brought up Peak Oil in a town hall meeting with U.S. Representative Vernon Ehlers of Michigan. Representative Ehlers was formerly a nuclear physicist, is one of only three scientists in Congress, and is extremely well versed on both energy and Peak Oil. After the Representative’s opening remarks, I got the microphone, and […]

Iran gas oil price hike rejected

Iran’s parliament on Sunday voted against a government proposal of gas oil used as diesel fuel for trucks and for heating homes, official media reported on Sunday. Refined oil and gas products are heavily-subsidised in resource-rich Iran, encouraging consumption as well as draining state coffers, but raising prices is politically sensitive as the country struggles […]

Wind Farms May Not Lower Air Pollution, Study Suggests

WASHINGTON In fact, making good decisions about wind energy may be difficult, said David J. Policansky, the study director, because negative effects occur locally while benefits are probably regional or national. The report observed that unlike European countries,

Kuwait oil reserves secret for national security

KUWAIT (RTRS): Kuwait will never disclose the size of its oil reserves for reasons of national security, Oil Minister Sheikh Ali Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah was quoted as saying after Kuwait announced a new oil find.

Is U.S. Natural Gas Headed Toward Excess Supply?

Several recent analytical studies, sponsored by EPRI, indicate that there is a plausible scenario that gas supplies will increase and that excess gas supplies could emerge over the intermediate-term, perhaps within two years. This relatively plausible scenario represents a significant departure from the popular trade press and has a number of implications for both the […]

Renewable is not a synonym for sustainable

One of my dad’s maxims was “never buy or sell hay.” Buying hay might bring in the seeds of weeds we had spent years trying to control; selling hay removed tons of nutrients without replacing it with commensurate manure.Thousands of years of unharvested prairie had built the rich silt loam. The first 75 years of […]

CO2 balance of large-scale electricity production: nuclear good, biogas best

A new life-cycle study prepared by Germany’s Oko-Institut (Institute for Applied Ecology) looks at 16 different power systems and the greenhouse gas emissions balance as well as the cost of offsetting the CO2 emissions of the electricity generated from these systems. The research was prepared as a working paper to guide discussions about the future […]

It sucks the energy right out of you

In Yotam Dor’s futuristic world, humans help power cars by donating their fat to have it turned into bio-diesel. …A Modest Proposal: For Tomorrow’s Energy Crisis, Today, imagines the world in 2039, 19 years after the oil crash of 2020. In it, a cyclical process finds humans modifying their bodies monthly by eating foods that […]

The Spirituality of Collapse

The first edition of this article was written in February, 2006, but I have recently revised and updated it. Since the first writing, the theme of collapse seems to have reverberated around the world, now manifesting its symptoms in the scientific community As I share my awareness of collapse with others, I meet a variety […]

The World Naked Bike Ride

On June 9th and 30th, 2007 cities across the world will experience the naked joy of the worlds largest naked protest against oil dependency and car culture in the history of humanity. It is time to stop indecent exposure to automobile emissions and to celebrate the power and individuality of our bodies! Naked Bicycle People […]

White House Press Briefing on the Third Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chang

I guess broadly I would say that in terms of the near-term options the focus, the most benefit obviously would come at the least cost, would come from energy efficiency improvement – things that are already in the marketplace or near the marketplace. Also, large opportunities in the area of renewables. But if we’re really […]

Forget nuclear, try ‘concentrating solar power’

There is no need for nuclear power in the U.S. because there is a simple mature technology that can deliver huge amounts of clean energy without any of the headaches of nuclear power. I refer to “concentrating solar power,” or CSP, the simple but effective technique of concentrating sunlight using mirrors to create heat, and […]

U.S. nuclear revival begins with restart of TVA’s oldest reactor

All signs from regulators and operators point to a startup within days of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Unit 1 reactor at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Athens, Alabama, culminating a five-year, $1.8 billion ( iht

Only Conoco-Phillips resisting Chavez Orinoco basin control

ConocoPhillips has refused to sign an agreement which will give PDVSA, the Venezuelan state oil company, control over its share of the production and refining of Orinoco crude, a vast resource of very poor quality oil which needs extensive upgrading. “Should they continue with us, then we will adopt the modality of joint venture. If, […]

6 Ways to Piss Off Oil Companies

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The Production Crunch

Last week’s announcement from Caracas that the operations of Western energy companies including BP, Chevron, Conoco, Exxon, Total and Statoil were being reduced due to continuing nationalization of oil reserves, and that the Chinese state oil giant CNPC would play a much bigger future role in exploration and production, poses a serious threat to the […]

It isn’t over yet for Lord Browne

No oilman likes the idea that his might be the next sunset industry, but more than any other executive, Lord Browne has made it his business to denounce this growing school of thought. In one typical speech in 2004, he proclaimed: “We have to demonstrate that there has been no shortage of oil, and that […]

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