As ethanol demand grows, so does ‘Dead Zone’ in Gulf of Mexico

U.S. farmers this spring planted the most acreage with corn since 1944, after demand for ethanol pushed the grain’s price to a 10-year high. That has increased the level of farm waste flowing into the Mississippi River basin, which scientists blame for creating a pocket along the Louisiana coast where shrimp and other sea life […]

Taiwan opts for coal-fired power plants

Power demand rose to a record in Taiwan last week, and the country said it would favor plans for coal-fired stations when it awarded permits to build new capacity next year because coal plants are cheaper to run and easier to supply than plants fueled by gas. “It looks like we’ll have to rely on […]

Nanogenerator Could Draw Energy from Human Blood

Scientists are working on a new type of nanogenerator that could draw the necessary energy from flowing blood in the human body, by using the beating heart and pulsating blood vessels. Once completed, this new cellular engine could find various applications, even beyond medicine. Zhong Lin Wang and colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology […]

UK: Government is failing on energy saving

The Government has been threatened with legal action for its failure to promote energy saving in millions of homes as required by an Act passed in 2000. The threat of judicial review for its failure to comply with an existing law on energy saving is doubly embarrassing because statutory targets for reducing carbon emissions are […]

Beijing’s ‘war on terror’ hides brutal crackdown on Muslims

Today China is waging a propaganda and security battle to guarantee its control over Xinjiang, its name for the vast province rich in minerals and strategic supplies of oil and gas which are vital to the expanding Chinese economy. China claims that Al-Qaeda has trained more than 1,000 members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, […]

NZ: Ready and waiting for the oil boom

The arrival of oil and gas prospectors in the deep south has raised hopes of an energy boom for the Mainland. MARTIN VAN BEYNEN looks at what might lie in store for the South Island if the prospects come through.In 1971, the North Sea coast city of Aberdeen was the main centre of the fishing […]

OPEC concerned oil price may hurt global economy

OPEC is concerned about the potential impact of the near-record price of oil on the world’s economy but has seen little sign that growth has been hit by higher energy costs, the group’s president said on Sunday. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries stands ready to pump more oil if needed, but it is […]

$100 Oil May Be Months Away, Not Years, Say CIBC, Goldman

The $100-a-barrel oil that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said would prevail by 2009 may be only a few months away. Jeffrey Currie, a London-based commodity analyst at the world’s biggest securities firm, says $95 crude is likely this year unless OPEC unexpectedly increases production, and declining inventories are raising the chances for $100 oil. Jeff […]

Fair oil price $60-$65 says Opec official

A fair price for both oil producers and consumers for a barrel of oil would be around $60 to $65 a barrel, a Kuwaiti state oil newsletter quoted the head of Opec’s research division as saying. “A price of $60 to $65 is appropriate for consumers and producers, because it boosts means of investment in […]

Many question liquid coal

Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s Big Idea – to build plants to turn coal into liquid fuel, thus reducing dependence on foreign oil while taking advantage of our coal resources before they are made obsolete by cleaner energy sources – is taking a big beating these days. The concept, the subject of much recent congressional debate, has […]

Ethanol plan sweet deal for sugar growers

Government may buy sugar to produce ethanol Washington, D.C. – Americans may soon be running their cars on sugar, not just corn. A provision in the House farm bill would require the government to buy surplus sugar and sell it to ethanol producers for conversion into fuel alcohol. Distillers of rum have long used sugar […]

BLM withdraws oil, gas leases

Federal officials said Thursday that dozens of oil and gas leases in Montana will be withdrawn from auction and pledged to look more closely at the environmental consequences of such development, particularly near the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge. The announcement followed vocal opposition from conservation groups and state officials who claimed the federal […]

Oil Law Sparks More Conflicts Among Iraqis

The draft Oil Law is sparking new conflicts among Iraqis, which is of course the last thing they need under the country’s terrible political and security conditions. Three types of objections are at play: legal-constitutional, political, and professional-sectoral. The opponents emphasize that Parliament should have dealt first with constitutional amendments, which include hydrocarbon-related items, before […]

Western Slope’s study on oil shale delayed

The long-awaited tome of fine print outlining the breadth and depth of future commercial oil shale development and its effect on the Western SlopeBut that date will be pushed back, BLM Washington spokeswoman Heather Feeney said. The statement, which Department of Natural Resources officials have said sprawls through seven volumes, will outline how commercial oil […]

China’s coal export turns to increase from months of decline

BEIJING, July 22 (Xinhua) — China’s coal export increased 249,000 tons to 5.066 million tons in June this year, ending the declining trend since May 2006, according to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). The nation’s output of coal reached 201.3 million tons in June, up 7 percent year-on-year. The commission said the coal […]

More urban Chinese have plans to buy cars

CHANGCHUN, July 22 (Xinhua) — Soon after obtaining a driver’s license, Xiao Xu, a young teacher in an industrial city in northeast China, has put car purchase on her agenda as she eagerly wants to sit behind the wheel. Xiao Xu seems to have every reason to buy a car: economically ample, wish for a […]

Environmental Assessment of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Report

How would air quality and greenhouse gas emissions be affected if significant numbers of Americans drove cars that were fueled by the power grid? A recently completed assessment conducted by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council made a detailed study of the question The study focused on plug-in hybrid electric […]

After peak oil: Will America survive?

As public awareness about peak oil continues to grow, and even the big oil companies like Exxon Mobil Corp. are now starting to admit that the future supply of oil looks troublesome (see this Boston Globe article), there’s an increasing focus on renewable energy solutions. But most members of the public still don’t understand energy […]

State shouldn’t waste public money on impractical photovoltaic cells

ARIZONA – About 30 years ago, a great wave of interest in solar energy swept through the state Legislature. Being a former engineer, I realized that the numbers didn’t quite add up. But I went along with the near unanimous vote to set up several solar-energy programs, hoping that economies of scale would kick in […]

A Natural Gas Crisis Coming?

The final years of the 20th century saw a rapid escalation in natural gas drilling in Western Canada. For the first time, however, the rate of production growth began to falter. In early 2000, as Murphy Oil, Apache and Beau Canada announced their discovery of the Ladyfern Slave Point gas field in a remote area […]

Zimbabwe hunts spirit medium over false fuel claim

HARARE, July 22 (Reuters) – Zimbabwe police are hunting a traditional spirit medium who led President Robert Mugabe’s government on a fruitless search for much-needed fuel she said was mysteriously oozing out of a rock. The southern African state is battling with acute fuel shortages amid an economic crisis many blame on Mugabe’s policies. On […]

Maryland Adopts Plan For Energy Efficiency

In a bid to cut energy use, Maryland yesterday became just the fourth state in the nation to approve a plan that removes the incentive for electric utilities to sell more power in order to make more money. In a rate case ruling issued yesterday, the Maryland Public Service Commission endorsed an approach known as […]

Christo’s latest project: an oil barrel pyramid for the Emirates

SAINT-PAUL, France (AFP) – In a break with their usual temporary installations, the artist Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude on Saturday unveiled a plan to build a giant pyramid of oil barrels in the desert of the United Arab Emirates. “The Emirates is very keen to see this project realized,” Christo said at a presentation […]

Tata’s Rs.100,000 car: boon or bane for India?

It looks as though Tata’s Rs.100,000 car will be a reality next year. It is now being praised all over the world as India’s shining moment ushering in a new automobile era. When seen in the background of India’s energy crisis, it shows India’s total lack of preparedness and long-term planning failure. On the part […]

SK Energy wins right to develop ‘promising’ Peru offshore oil field

SEOUL (AFP) – SK Energy, South Korea’s largest oil refiner, said Sunday it had won a bid to develop a “very promising” oil field in Peru’s offshore Trujillo basin. The company, formerly known as SK Corporation, said in a statement that it had won a 100-percent stake in the Peru Offshore Block Z-46 in a […]

Gas Prices Rise on Refineries

Oil refineries across the country have been plagued by a record number of fires, power failures, leaks, spills and breakdowns this year, causing dozens of them to shut down temporarily or trim production. The disruptions are helping to drive gasoline prices to highs not seen since last summer There have been blazes at refineries in […]

Oil and gas may run short by 2015, say industry experts

Humanity is approaching an unprecedented crisis when not enough oil and gas will be produced to keep industrial civilisation running, the world’s top oilmen warned last week.The predictions from the 420 pages NPC report should send a shiver down humanity’s collective spine as a shortage of oil and gas has been predicted to cause industrial […]

Russia and liquefied natural gas

The recent history of natural gas has been dominated by pipeline economics and pipeline politics and this history is not yet at an end. But parallel to this history another historical development in the natural gas arena is also taking shape, albeit slowly and unassumingly. This development is the growing importance of liquefied natural gas […]

A lunatic crop of laws for global warming

There has been no more vivid example of the mounting costs of our politicians’ “climate change” policy than BP’s announcement of a Soaring prices have already doubled. Yet it is at this very moment that the EU decides we must either turn our entire domestic wheat production into fuel (thus needing to import 13 million […]

Global Warming Theories Fizzle, New Studies Show

Claims of alarming changes in nature because of global warming are being discredited. Results of two new studies of historical hurricane patterns add to a growing body of research that discredits global warming alarmism, said James M. Taylor, an environmental policy senior fellow at The Heartland Institute.Reports on the studies were carried in the June […]

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