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Japan homeowners swapping oil for electricity

A rush by Japanese homeowners to convert their houses to run solely on electricity has put them in the vanguard of efforts to cut back on oil use, but also risks driving up coal and gas imports if nuclear generators falter. “Over the next 10 years, Japanese oil demand will lose 1 million barrels per […]

Researchers Call for Ag Policies Focused on Sustainability

Agricultural policies should focus more on developing and rewarding sustainable, multifunctional landscapes that benefit both varied commodity production and the environment, and less on merely maximizing crop yield, according to a policy forum article in a recent edition of the journal Science. greencarcongress

MIT Model Compares Effects of Different Carbon Cap and Trade Proposals in Congre

The MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change recently applied its Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis model to evaluate a set of cap-and-trade proposals under consideration by the US Congress. The proposals, which specify emissions reductions to be achieved through 2050 for the standard six-gas basket of greenhouse gases, fall into […]

Unrealized benefits of transport electrification are within reach

Even though the battery problems appear to have been solved, widespread adoption of plug-in transit is not assured while it threatens oil company profits. Compared to a Prius (45mpg), an electric power plant burns one half of the oil and emits one third of the carbon dioxide (well to wheel) per mile to power a […]

Grim worldview from the deck of the Titanic

…Throughout history, whenever a new energy source was exploited, human population skyrocketed. But never has it increased as quickly as it has since the oil age arrived in 1859 and the world population was a little more than 1 billion. The exponential growth in population going hand-in-hand with the use of hydrocarbons is not just […]

Think globally, manufacture locally

…While it seems highly unlikely that industrial relocalisation will be driven directly by Government policy, there is a strong case on four fronts for Australia doing all that it can to address wealth disparity between more and less developed nations. First, there is the potential for domestic socioeconomic benefit in the form of a diversified, […]

Iran

Chennai, June 30: News stories about IPI or Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline talks have been in full flow over the last few days, yet in the final analysis what we seem to be left with are only hitches and roadblocks, delays and rough patches. A positive, however, is that the negotiations towards a final agreement on […]

South Korea and Ukraine sign uranium mining and nuclear power deal

South Korea has signed a deal to cooperate in building nuclear power plants and developing uranium with Ukraine, the country’s energy ministry said on Sunday. South Korea will help Ukraine build and operate nuclear power facilities and Ukraine will allow South Korea to join its uranium development projects, according to a memorandum of understanding signed […]

NOCs knocking on the market door

Historically, the large international oil companies (IOCs) such as BP, Total and ExxonMobil – all of which are have very high credit ratings – may have had the upper hand in global oil as a result of their expertise, technology and financial resources. However, many of today’s national oil companies (NOCs) have become equally formidable […]

‘Energy Resources and Our Future’ – Speech by Hyman Rickover in 1957

Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover gave a amazingly prescient speech in 1957, which every TOD reader should read, if they haven’t already. Among other things, the speech talks about

$250 Billion in Subprime Losses?

…But before we touch on the credit world, I want to briefly look at a development in the oil markets which I find intriguing. Dr. Woody Brock, in a recent paper on oil prices, wrote a rather interesting sentence, to wit, that Iran would not have net oil to export in 2014. I found that […]

Creating an Energy Descent Action Plan

Rob Hopkins of TransitionCulture.org and Sonya Wallace of Creating a Sustainable Sunshine Coast (CASSC) tell GPM’s Andi Hazelwood about creating an Energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP) and dealing with the associated challenges.Sonya Wallace is just getting started with her EDAP project for the Sunshine Coast region of Queensland, Australia. She details how permaculture is a […]

Venezuela: It’s our oil

WHEN Venezuela’s government announced this week that two American oil giants, Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhilips, would walk away from their large investment in the Orinoco heavy-oil belt rather than accept tough new contract terms, officials presented it as the recovery of sovereignty over another slice of the country’s all-important oil industry. Some other Venezuelans saw […]

Report says ethanol may fuel dead zone

Clean Gulf of Mexico needs bigger cuts in nitrogen fertilizer use, report says Shrinking that dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico will be much more costly than first thought. A group of scientists that looked at the problem during the Clinton administration targeted agricultural runoff in the Midwest as the main source of the […]

Energy companies squirm under Congressional attention

…”It shocked me the speed with which that legislation went from committee to the Senate floor,” said Ben Shepperd, executive vice president of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association. While the tax provision was bad enough, he said, the fact that it took oil company dollars to fund alternative energy sources was “robbing Peter to pay […]

UN: Sri Lanka Govt. blocking fuel supplies to its Wanni offices

NEW YORK – The United Nations is accusing the Sri Lankan government of starving its humanitarian agencies of much-needed fuel to operate vehicles and also generators which power freezers storing life-saving vaccines and other medicines. The continued power shortages, caused by lack of fuel, will soon affect the preservation of vaccines and essential medicines, the […]

Biofuels pursuit: Cheaper, faster, better

Professor endeavors to make plants more efficient and profitable to attract investors Using what they call a “giant tea bag,” inventors say they have devised a way to make biodiesel cheaper, faster and better without the support of government subsidies. The method is the brainchild of an Iowa State University professor who developed his idea […]

Iran leader backs ”brave” gasoline rationing move

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday threw his weight behind a gasoline rationing scheme which sparked angry protests and left more than a dozen petrol stations burnt out in the world’s fourth largest oil exporter. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s highest authority under its system of clerical rule, hailed the government’s “bravery” […]

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