Energy solutions

One important response will be to limit our consumption of energy as much as possible. But it is also essential that we develop environmentally friendly sources of energy and make improvements to those sources that are already in widespread use. This special issue of Physics World examines a few of the areas in which physicists […]

US Southern utilities, lawmakers resist call for renewable power

Six of the United States’ 10 largest sources of carbon dioxide emissions are coal-fired power plants in the South, but year after year Southern lawmakers balk at pushing utilities toward cleaner renewable energy. Last month, Republican senators from the South provided about half the votes that defeated federal legislation to require power companies to get […]

Energy: the new cold war

Since the close of the cold war, we have been growing used to threats such as terrorism where the enemy has no state or territory. But soon we will have to get used to new strategic challenges, such as energy security, where fossil fuels will be used as weapons to achieve political ends. Energy security […]

Meeting the challenge of squeezing clean fuels from U.S. coal

The saying goes, ”You can’t get blood out of a stone.” But if liquid fuels are the lifeblood of the transportation sector, then technology and economics have combined to disprove that old saw. You can get blood out of a stone – specifically, diesel and other transportation fuels out of coal, at a price competitive […]

A hot race for cold oil

The only thing standing between the U.S. and access to huge oil deposits far off the coast of Alaska is an unratified treaty. Russian scientists are hard at work trying to prove that a big chunk of the Arctic Ocean — and the billions of tons of oil underneath it — belong to them. The […]

Benchmark Boogie: A Guide to the Struggle Over Iraq’s Oil

Your guide to the ongoing dance between Bush, the Congress, and the Iraqi government; an update on the current status of the proposed oil laws; and some steps you can take to stop the hijacking of Iraq’s oil. alternet

Bright outlook for solar cells

Nanotechnology could transform solar cells from niche products to devices that provide a significant fraction of the world’s energy, as Edwin Cartlidge discusses But some believe that the rise of solar energy could be far more dramatic. Crabtree and Lewis themselves estimate that the widespread use of photovoltaic cells could happen as soon as 2015 […]

Climate Change Debate Hinges On Economics

Here’s the good news about climate change: Energy and climate experts say the world already possesses the technological know-how for trimming greenhouse gas emissions enough to slow the perilous rise in the Earth’s temperatures. Here’s the bad news: Because of the enormous cost of addressing global warming, the energy legislation considered by Congress so far […]

Island Britain: UK Energy Strategy Calls For Zero Carbon in Twenty Years

The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in Snowdonia, Wales has released a position paper and accompanying website titled zerocarbonbritain, which proposes and promotes a strategy to halve the UK greencarcongress

Peak Oil Passnotes: Peak Oil Zombie Attack

As we have made clear many times in this column we hold little truck with many of the whackos who inhabit the wondrous world of Then we are told that the markets or the U.S. economy or the world economy is destined for some catastrophic collapse. In fact we have already been told this on […]

Unusual 2006 has oil customers guessing in 2007

Until last year, consumers considering whether to fill their oil tanks during the summer to get a good deal had a convincing set of numbers to help them make their decision. The data showed that in most years, a customer who bought oil during the summer instead of waiting for the first frost saved money, […]

Hot Fuel Web Site Launched to Educate Consumers

GRAIN VALLEY, Mo., July 13 — Did you know you may not be getting your money’s worth at the fuel pump? At warmer temperatures, liquids — including diesel and gasoline — expand, decreasing the amount of energy (Btu) per gallon purchased. The “Turn Down Hot Fuel” campaign will educate consumers on how “hot fuel” may […]

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The Trouble with Refining Crude Oil

The weekly status report continues to reveal a highly unusual and persistent problem developing in the US market for crude and refined products. Specifically, the US is absolutely awash in crude oil, yet it’s experiencing a growing shortage of motor gasoline just as we enter the peak of the summer driving season. And, more recently, […]

Fuel, IAEA enter North Korea on nuclear arms deal

SEOUL (Reuters) – A tanker carrying fuel oil docked at a North Korean port on Saturday as a team from the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency headed for the country ahead of a planned shutdown of its atomic reactor under a disarmament deal. North Korea said last week it would consider suspending the operation of its […]

Biofuel producer faces supplier friction

A dispute between a recently floated biodiesel company and its supplier has shown how pricing conditions in the biofuels market are burning some of the companies involved. Shares in Renewable Power and Light, an Aim-listed company whose assets are in the US, fell nearly 70 per cent on Friday after it announced expected losses because […]

More for turnpike tolls? Maybe much more?

…In several other states there has been a move in the past few years for entities to enter into a public-private-partnership with a state where a company either secures a long-term lease on an existing road or perhaps builds a completely new road. Usually the state retains ownership and grants a 50- to 99-year lease […]

Methane plant under way

Construction has begun on a methane plant developers say will turn livestock waste into clean-burning fuel. Mendota Heights, Minn.-based Bison Renewable Energy broke ground on the $12 million plant west of Hull in northwest Iowa. It is the first of at least 20 such plants Bison plans to build nationwide, said Steve Nelson, finance director. […]

The IEA’S Come-to-Jesus Moment

Q: What’s the difference between an oil analyst and a used car salesman? A: The used car salesman knows when he’s lying. That’s a variation on the old joke about computer salesmen, but it can apply just as well to oil market analysts–such as the roughly 150 energy analysts and statisticians who work for the […]

New York: March set to highlight power outage

After a new series of Con Edison power outages swept through the New York metropolitan area this month, the utility giant will soon face a reminder of last year The march will begin at 7 p.m. at Thomas P. Noonan Playground in Sunnyside, Queens (at Greenpoint Avenue and 43rd Street near the 40th Street-Lowery stop […]

IEA: 08 Oil Demand Seen at Fastest Clip in Years

Global energy consumption is seen rising at its fastest clip in recent years in 2008 but high oil prices persisting above $70 a barrel may steadily eat away at demand, the International Energy Agency said Friday. The Paris-based agency, in its monthly oil market report, also conceded that it had been too upbeat in its […]

Mexican Crude Falling, Will Drop More

Mexico, Jul 13 (Prensa Latina) The coming drop in Mexican hydrocarbon production together with a lack of new alternative sources is causing alarm among specialists, who doubt that trend’s reversal. According to experts, the recent Petroleos Mexicanos Oil Company estimations of a 14 percent reduction in the total oil production over these next six years […]

Iowa: Rising gas prices smack region

Gasoline prices soared to an average of $3.27 per gallon in Sioux Falls on Friday – up about 25 cents since the start of the month – pinching pocketbooks and pushing consumers to scale back or change spending habits. Analysts blame the July 1 shutdown of an oil refinery in Coffeyville, Kan. – caused by […]

Argentina ‘Total Energy Program’ Breeds Total Skepticism

BUENOS AIRES -(Dow Jones)- When the Argentine government announced a plan late Thursday to subsidize liquid fuels to make them as affordable to industries as natural gas, it gave it the grandiose title of the “Total Energy Plan.” But this latest bid to fix a relentless energy crisis has met with immediate skepticism from industry […]

Exxon’s $1 Trillion Hurdle

As Oil Reserves Dwindle, Giants Find That Size Can Often Be a Liability Exxon Mobil this week became the first company worth more than $500 billion since the millennial stock boom burst. The Texas oil producer is now nearly twice as valuable as its nearest rival, Royal Dutch Shell. But the supermajor faces supersized obstacles […]

Middle East demand powers the resurgence of fuel oil

But even increased supply of fuel oil may not be enough to meet rising demand. The region’s largest fuel oil supplier Saudi Aramco began importing fuel oil for power generation for the first time last year for the peak summer demand season from June to August. Last week, for only the second time, it again […]

Organic Farming Can Feed The World, Study Suggests

Organic farming can yield up to three times as much food as conventional farming on the same amount of land sciencedaily

Summer Sale

In order to have a lasting bull-market in any sector, supply and demand must be out of whack. In the case of natural resources today, demand is rising ferociously in China and India whilst supply is struggling. Consider the energy market as an example: At the beginning of this decade, China and India combined used […]

Risks Rise for Western Oil Firms in Africa

Big foreign oil companies are finding it harder to make money in Africa because of the region’s often unstable politics, output restrictions and moves by some governments to rewrite contracts. Africa remains one of the last big regions open to foreign oil exploration, and companies of all stripes are benefiting from record energy prices. But […]

Total and Gazprom sign $15bn deal

Total and Gazprom today signed a $15bn ( guardian

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