Nuclear storm gathers as climate change experts meet

BANGKOK (AFP) – Few issues are as divisive as nuclear power, and the furore over its use threatens to resurface as leading scientists meet in Thailand to thrash out a plan to reduce the impact of climate change. Nuclear supporters hail it a “clean” energy that will help lessen the world’s dependence on the polluting […]

Energy: The Grim Future For Our Global Community

In our global community, the markets are intertwined. The energy market is the largest market in the world. Energy effect There are many consequences of peak oil even beyond the scope of this paper. Among these is the obvious consequence of high energy prices. Other less obvious but more dangerous consequences are commodity wars, hyperinflation, […]

The Nuclear Option

Popular wisdom holds that safety concerns, fueled by the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island, Penn., eventually shuttered nuclear construction by the Tennessee Valley Authority Ratepayers on both sides of that fence paid for the past failures of nuclear power; Three Mile Island was just the final blow to an entire industry in meltdown. Nationwide, […]

Bangkok faces flooded future, expert says

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, will be under water in 20 years because of rising seas from global warming and subsidence, says a top Thai climate expert who warned of a tsunami years before the 2004 disaster. “If nothing is done, Bangkok will be at least 50 centimeters to one meter under water,” Smith […]

Post Mortem for the Stock Market

The real estate market is crashing faster than anyone had anticipated. Housing prices have fallen in 17 of 20 of the nation The next shoe to drop will be the stock market which is still flying-high from increases in the money supply. The Federal Reserve has printed up enough fiat-cash to keep overpriced equities jumping […]

World’s first carbon-negative energy system planned: biomass with carbon storage

Dutch media report that diversified energy firm Nuon is in the final stages of creating the world’s first large-scale carbon-negative energy system in Eemshaven, the Netherlands. The system comes close to what scientists describe as ‘Bio-Energy with Carbon Storage’ (BECS), thought to be one of the most effective technology routes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions […]

Ministers act to stop lights going out in 2015

Fears that Britain could be plunged into an energy crisis by 2015 will result in the green light being given by Christmas for a new generation of nuclear power stations, senior Whitehall sources are indicating. With more than a fifth of the UK’s electricity generating capacity due to be closed down in the next eight […]

India may buy Algerian crude for planned stockpile

The country has identified two port cities on the east and west coasts to build three tanks to store crude oil stocks Riyadh: India, Asia India, Asia

Compost Nation – Kunstler

…The design failures of these things might be attributed to a loss of knowledge and a lack of attention to details, but I think a deeper explanation has to do with the diminishing returns of technology. We’ve never had more awesome power tools for workers in the building trades. We have compound miter saws, electric […]

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The military is the only sector of the economy where emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) can be reduced by greater than 100%. This is because militarism is the only type of activity whose primary purpose is destruction. When a road is bombed in Serbia, energy is used to rebuild it. Energy usage translates to the […]

Melting Greenland ice could raise ocean seven meters

VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) – The world’s oceans could rise by up to seven meters if Greenland’s ice cap entirely melts because of global warming, climate scientists said Tuesday. Glaciers on Greenland, the world’s most icy land mass, are now melting most quickly where they are in contact with surrounding ocean, while ice in the high […]

Global Oil Production Peaking: What Happens Now?

One needs to note that the energy issues at hand are not purely economic. While the market will indeed force supply and demand into sink, the issue of petroleum reserves and exploration is not an economic issue but is rather an issue of geology. While it is true that non-conventional sources, such as the synthetic […]

Iowa refinery snags may raise gas prices

DES MOINES, Iowa – Refinery snags that left two Iowa storage facilities short of fuel over the weekend are a reminder of how tight the U.S. gasoline market has become and why average prices could soon top $3 a gallon, experts said Tuesday. While the gasoline supply shortages in Iowa City and Fort Dodge were […]

Project that turns beer wastewater into electricity

A BREAKTHROUGH project that turns beer wastewater into electricity has won a $140,000 grant. The project, a joint initiative between the University of Queensland’s Advanced Wastewater Management Centre and Foster’s, is believed to be the first of its kind in the world. The technology works by creating a microbial fuel cell, which feeds continuously on […]

Dorsch states that since control of global oil reserves has steadily passed from private companies to national oil companies and now roughly 77% of the world’s 1.15 trillion barrels of proven reserves is in the hands of the national companies which he calls the “Axis of Oil.” These countries, which include Russia, Iran, and Venezuela, […]

Feds Clear Way for UT Oil-Shale Project

The federal government gave its approval Monday for the reopening of an oil-shale mine in Utah, one of the experimental works intended to boost domestic oil production on Western lands. A top-ranking Interior Department official signed off on the project, and officials said an Alabama-based partnership, Oil Shale Exploration Co., would be offered a lease […]

Pentagon and the End of Oil (Updated)

It looks like someone in the Pentagon started reading about peak oil, got alarmed, and decided to take the typical course of action: commission a report. According to an article in the Boston Globe, the report comes to the unsurprising conclusion that dependence on oil is indeed a problem: wired

Gulf of Mexico oil output expected to soar

Action in the Gulf of Mexico’s deep waters is growing so much that oil production could grow by more than 50 percent in the next decade, the federal agency that oversees oil and gas activity off the nation’s coastlines reported today. “With the continued interest and activity in the deepwater area of the Gulf, we […]

Saudi Arabia’s ‘Oil Plot’ Arrests: Targeting al-Qaeda or Our Congress?

172 Islamic militants were arrested by Saudi Security forces in an advanced stage of readiness to attack energy and high impact targets according to the Saudi Interior Ministry. “They had the personnel, the money and arms”. Quick cut to Saudi television, broadcasting images of neatly lined up rapid fire armaments with ammunition clips and orderly […]

Aussies make solar power cell breakthrough

CHEAPER solar power could be available in a few years due to pioneering work by Australian scientists on an improved solar cell. Researchers at the University of New South Wales ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence have developed a means of increasing the cell’s light-trapping ability by up to 50 per cent. .news

Vancouver Company May Make Ultraclean Jet Fuel in Ohio

A Vancouver-based energy company has generated newspaper headlines in Ohio this week with its proposed coal and biowaste fuel plant valued at $4 billion. The project — as described by the Plain Dealer newspaper in Cleveland — would take four years to build and supply 50,000 barrels a day of diesel, jet fuel and naphtha, […]

Cheap source of energy: Cell splits water via sunlight to produce hydrogen

Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a unique photocatalytic cell that splits water to produce hydrogen and oxygen in water using sunlight and the power of a nanostructured catalyst. Pratim Biswas, Ph.D., the Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor and Chair of the Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, and his graduate […]

Ford Charts Fuel Savings Impact of Reduced Speeds

Ford UK has provided performance data illustrating the effect of driving a cross-section of its Transit van models at governed speeds of 60 and 65 mph as a means to demonstrate the utility of a low-cost ( greencarcongress

Thanksgiving in the Gas Tank

Are plants the power source of the future? Biomass could be one solution to our dependency on fossil fuels. Though biodiesel from rapeseed and alcohol from grains are uneconomical and hardly less harmful to the environment than gasoline, second-generation production methods are now fueling a new optimism. Even cautious forecasters are optimistic. Indeed, according to […]

Take a broader look at local ownership of biofuels

Both Minnesota and Iowa can lay claim to early local ownership successes in the biofuels industry. We also can lay claim to some early successes in other locally owned renewable-energy development, notably wind. Unfortunately, local ownership has now become an increasingly divisive topic that threatens to slow the rate of renewable-energy development more broadly, just […]

Biofuels Money 101: Mixing public, private

Q. Who invests in ethanol plants and how is it done? A. There are several ways to invest. Two of the most common are buying stock in a publicly-traded ethanol company or as a private investor. The reason private capital is necessary is that many banks are cautious and private investment lowers lending risks, says […]

Gasoline runs short in Midwest terminals

A bottleneck in the supply of gasoline has caused some terminals in Iowa to run out of unleaded gas today. Terminals in Iowa City and Fort Dodge had no unleaded gasoline today, said Bruce Heine, a spokesman for Magellan Midstream Partners, which has an 8,500-mile refined petroleum pipeline system including 47 terminals, eight of which […]

Hotels in Costa Rica Worried

Hotel owners in Costa Rica fear recent power outages could hurt their bottom line, according to a statement released yesterday by the Costa Rican Chamber of Hotels. They’re afraid their guests will cancel reservations as they learn of Costa Rica’s energy crisis, which has been evident since an unplanned massive blackout occurred April 19. Smaller, […]

Back to the Cold War? Putin’s Policies Head in a Dark Direction

It’s difficult to avoid the impression that with Russia, we may be gravitating toward a new cold war. Flush with cash as a result of soaring energy prices, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin behaves like a man who is utterly unconstrained by “world opinion” (however defined), or the possibility of incurring Washington’s wrath. We see Russia’s […]

More pain at the pump

It was a monster fill for Marc Fischer’s Ford Excursion. When the pump came to a halt yesterday at a Columbia Exxon gas station, the bill was a whopper: $91.61. And it might continue to grow. The price of a gallon of regular gasoline reached an average of $2.93 yesterday in Maryland – a 28-cent […]

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