Putting Energy Hogs in the Home on a Strict Low-Power Diet

I thought I was pretty good about energy conservation, but it turns out that I’ve been a bit of a hypocrite. I drive a reasonably fuel-efficient car, I work at home so I don’t use fuel to commute and I am replacing incandescent bulbs in my home with energy-efficient fluorescent bulbs. But I am also […]

Study: Energy Prices, Not Corn, is Rising Food Prices

Ethanol critics and many in the media charge that the rising price of corn due to growing ethanol demand is the major culprit for moderately rising consumer food prices. Conspicuously absent from the discussion is the chief reason for increasing food costs: escalating energy costs.According to a new analysis of food, energy and corn prices […]

Argentine energy crisis leaves industrial customers idle

To avoid residential blackouts the Argentine government imposed stricter electricity consumption restrictions plunging some industrial customers to an indefinite supply cut off as demand again peaked when temperatures plunged to freezing levels. The government instructed companies and government offices to save 1.200 MW per peak hour consumption, which is between 18:00 and 22:00 hours. This […]

Scientific Challenges in Sustainable Energy Technology

This presentation will describe and evaluate the challenges, both technical, political, and economic, involved with widespread adoption of renewable energy technologies. First, we estimate the available fossil fuel resources and reserves based on data from the World Energy Assessment and World Energy Council. In conjunction with the current and projected global primary power production rates, […]

The Gorilla Is Unmasked

A secretive project dubbed “The Gorilla” by inhabitants of Elk Point, S.D., turns out to be a planned 400,000 barrel-a-day oil refinery. That’s right. Do not adjust your computer monitor. A refinery. If actually built, it would be the first new one in this country since Marathon Oil (NYSE: MRO) opened its Garyville, La., plant […]

Report: White House at odds over Iran

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Recycling Is Not Enough, We Need To Consume Less

Recycling rates have risen, and the UK is on schedule to meet EU targets, but the key to dealing with our escalating waste problem lies in changing our buying habits and our attitudes to consumption, according to the authors of a new Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) publication. Consumption: reducing, reusing and recycling, which […]

Oil Market Under Pressure, Supply Not Able to Counter Demand

Saudi Aramco’s current state of upstream developments is still not fully understood. Based on growing research figures provided by independent analysts, it has been shown that current depletion of Saudi oil fields are increasingly above the normal 8% to be expected. Several authors have already shown that since beginning of 2006, current depletion is more […]

Peak Oil Passnotes: The Name Is Bonds, T-Bonds

But one of the main factors in maintaining high energy prices is the fact that high costs are already delaying new production coming onstream. There is a choking point in the energy complex that may be further exacerbated by any fear of a recession. A combination of high current costs, delayed projects and fear of […]

California Takes Action to Increase Use of Ethanol in Gasoline

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) at their June 14th meeting in Fresno voted on a new reformulation of California gasoline that will allow an increase up to 10 percent of the amount of renewable, clean-burning, low carbon ethanol into California’s gasoline blend. Both ethanol and petroleum producers joined together to support this action and […]

Renewable energy funds are booming

Since the start of the year, the small but growing pool of funds specializing in renewable energy have posted solid returns, in many cases beating the pants off the S&P 500. The mutual funds include the New Alternatives Fund (Charts) and the Guinness Atkinson Alternative Energy Fund (Charts). The New Alternatives fund is up nearly […]

Update on the US Senate Energy Bill, Part 2

Some 100 amendments to the energy bill under deliberation in the Senate emerged in the first three days of debate, among them being a proposal for a National Low-Carbon Fuel Standard (Obama, SA 1579) and another being a proposal to promote the development of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles, and deploying near-term programs to electrify […]

Aligns Fuel Cell Researchers with Company

General Motors Corp. is moving more than 500 fuel cell experts from advanced development laboratories to core engineering functions to prepare this technology for future production. More than 400 fuel cell engineers will report to GM fuelcellsworks

Credit cards cut off gas purchases

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – So you’re at the gas station filling up your vehicle, and without warning the gas pump shuts off. What? The tank isn’t full, and you know your credit card isn’t over its limit. “Using my Visa card, I commonly hit a limit and I would be standing there scratching my head,” Shawn […]

The Rising Tide (Price) of Corn

The nation’s unquenchable thirst for gasoline — and finding an alternative to what’s been called our addiction to oil — has produced an unintended consequence: The cost of the foods that fuel our bodies has jumped. The corn price increases flow like gravy down the food chain, to grocery stores and menus. The cost of […]

Energy plan’s surprising impact

Groups criticize Senate proposal to boost biofuel usage Dick Morse, a feed dealer in southeast Iowa, has something in common with the Coca-Cola Co. Both are concerned about a push in Congress to increase the production of fuel ethanol and what that’s doing to their business. Lawmakers “are so giddy about getting away from foreign […]

Fusion Facility Enters Prep Phase

The proposed European High Power Laser Energy Research (Hiper) facility — a device intended to demonstrate the feasibility of laser-driven fusion as an energy source — is entering the preparation phase after completion of a two-year study by an international team of scientists.

Their conclusions have allowed the Hiper project to be selected as part of the European roadmap for future large-scale science facilities. The preparatory phase of the Hiper facility is expected to begin in January and to last for three years. Fifteen nations are now associated with Hiper.

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The shape of the world economy

Is a global economic crash such as the one that occurred in 1929 possible? Warren Buffet once said – “It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked”. Is it possible that the global tide of financial inbalances today will at some point fall like dominoes and expose governments and […]

Icy Island Warms to Climate Change

…In few parts of the world is climate change more real — and personal — than here. The Arctic is feeling the globe’s fastest warming. At a science station in the ice-covered interior of Greenland, average winter temperatures rose nearly 11 degrees Fahrenheit from 1991 to 2003. Winters are shorter, ice is melting, and fish […]

Oil debate’s crude for thought

…A world expert on peak oil, Dr Roger Bezdek, said Australia faces a bleak future if we don’t start planning for peak oil now. For a start he said inaction over peak oil would bring Australia liquid fuel shortages, massive unemployment, high interest rates and a severe recession. “The problem of the peaking of world […]

Renewable fuels provision stalls energy bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats, eager for a vote on energy legislation, ran into staunch Republican resistance Thursday to requiring that utilities use more wind, solar and other renewable sources to produce electricity. The impasse over renewable fuels came as Democrats said they would seek nearly $13.7 billion in tax breaks to promote clean energy, […]

G8 agreement on climate change a ”disgrace”: Al Gore

MILAN (Reuters) – Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore denounced a deal by world leaders on curbing greenhouse gases as “a disgrace disguised as an achievement,” saying on Thursday the agreement struck last week was insufficient. The dedicated climate crusader, whose 2006 global warming documentary won an Oscar, said leaders at last week’s G8 summit […]

Import Bingo

Live by the imports or die by the imports. With US refineries continuing to struggle, our fortunes with gasoline supply and price are becoming increasingly dependant on imports. And if we aren But the bigger surprise is why the analysts were so convinced that refinery runs would increase and gas supplies would rise. Last week […]

SWAZILAND: PETROL PUMPS RUN DRY

LOCAL service stations are running short of fuel, amidst rumours of an impending crisis in neighbouring South Africa. Interviewed motorists fears attributed the impending fuel crisis to the on-going strike by civil servants in South Africa, which is gaining momentum by the day. Some also blamed the worsening security situation in the Middle East region, […]

OPEC to Maintain Its Current 30M B/D Output Level

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said Thursday that there was no need for the group to inject further oil supplies into the market in the face of rising demand, an implicit rebuke to the International Energy Agency’s call this week for urgent new supplies from the group. In an unusual statement well ahead of […]

Getting to Know: Dr. Eban Goodstein

Dr. Eban Goodstein wants college students around the country to join the fight against global warming, and he

Ultra-Efficient Photovoltaics

A solar cell more than twice as efficient as typical rooftop solar panels has been developed by Spectrolab, a Boeing subsidiary based in Sylmar, CA. It makes use of a highly customizable and virtually unexplored class of materials that could lead to further jumps in efficiency over the next decade, making solar power less expensive […]

Lies, damned lies and BP statistics

Inspired by a recent front page article in the UK’s Independent (a national UK newspaper) covering peak oil and the latest edition of the BP Statistical Review of World Energy The Oil Drum takes a look at BP’s reserve reporting using Saudi Arabia as an example.The Oil Drum: Europe

June 14, 2007: The Day

Matt Drudge has just taken Peak Oil mainstream. Up until today, you could randomly ask 10 people on the street what Up until today, the idea that there

Flood defences ‘not up to required standard’

Fewer than half of the country’s defences in high risk flooding areas are at the required level, the National Audit Office said. And overall the Environment Agency, which is responsible for sea and river defences, had failed in its aim of keeping 63 per cent of the country’s flood systems in target condition. An all […]

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