Biofuel Boom Threatens Gummy Bears

A rise in crop prices is threatening to jack up prices on gummy bears and other sweets. Meanwhile, the food and beverage industry in Germany is lobbying for government subsidies for biofuel crops to be eliminated. First it was tortillas in Mexico, then it was Frosted Flakes in America and recently German beer. Now the […]

Biofuel Must for India, Say Experts

Energy-starved India should invest in spurring large-scale cultivation of jatropha, a plant with seeds that can be mixed with fuel to form biodiesel, experts said Monday.Two key issues restraining the growth of the Indian biofuel industry were lack of sufficient government encouragement and limited availability of feedstock like jatropha and pongamia, said a study released […]

Humble mosses may help greenhouse gas concerns

The thawing of vast stretches of Canadian permafrost — widely seen as a “ticking time bomb” of climate change because of its expected liberation of billions of tonnes of pent-up methane and carbon dioxide — may be much less of a threat than previously believed, according to a new U.S. study of freshly unfrozen peatlands […]

Doubts over ‘green’ solar panels

Solar panels fitted to homes may be harming the environment more than convenional sources of energy, according to a study by scientists. More energy is used to build, run, and recycle solar panels compared with that for fossil fuel systems, according to researchers.The findings indicate that although large scale solar panel systems are beneficial, the […]

EU sides with Greek Cypriots in oil spat

The European Union has once again supported the Greek Cypriot administration in an oil spat between Nicosia and Ankara that stemmed from a tender for oil exploration in the eastern Mediterranean. As the results of the bidding are expected to be announced on Thursday, the EU Commission said the Greek Cypriots have every right to […]

Energy-hungry Turkey drilling for more oil

You may think that you cannot do without your car and therefore without the automotive industry, or that you can’t live without your computer and consequently the information technology industry. However, in reality there is just one industry which is more important than any other: the traditional energy industry. Without fuel from crude oil and […]

Energy: Europe’s Escape Routes from Moscow

Wary of Moscow’s stranglehold on natural gas supplies, the EU hopes several planned pipelines will provide a way out.Energy analysts like Fariborz Ghadar, director of the Center for Global Business Studies at Penn State University in the United States, say that by 2030 Europe could need to import as much as 80 percent of its […]

The Impact of Peak Oil on Rural Communities

Over the next few years, as the price of oil increases and its availability declines dramatically on a global scale, there will be profound and far-reaching effects across society. This report collates information on what has been termed Although Cornwall has been taken as the focal point, the recommended responses can, and should, be applied […]

Climate Change And Permafrost Thaw Alter Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Permafrost – the perpetually frozen foundation of North America – isn’t so permanent anymore, and scientists are scrambling to understand the pros and cons when terra firma goes soft. Permafrost serves like a platform underneath vast expanses of northern forests and wetlands that are rooted, literally, in melting permafrost in many northern ecosystems. But rising […]

Nymex Natural Gas Rises on Concern Gulf Storm Would Pare Output

Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) — Natural gas in New York advanced on concern a possible storm in the Gulf of Mexico would pare production and as traders bought contracts to cover bets prices would fall. Gas for September delivery rose 25.2 cents, or 3.7 percent, to $7.072 per million British thermal units at 12:02 p.m. on […]

Biofuel expansion threatens Europe

Biofuel expansion threatens EuropeGlen Barry, Director of Ecological Internet explains:

Peak Oil and Peak Investment Constraining Production Levels

Although peak oil theories have been largely flawed by their main incapacity to take into account future technological developments and the effects of high crude oil prices, current production situation looks like a precursor of production plateaus. Several peak oil protagonists have been lately hitting the headlines, showing their willingness to support the theory that […]

An electric car for the common man

One company is hoping to bring a $30,000, 80-mph battery-powered sedan to the market by 2009. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — If all goes according to plan, by 2009 you could be sticking it to Big Oil by driving an all electric, Chinese-made sedan for little more than the cost of a Camry. Electric cars are […]

NHC Tracking Atlantic Tropical Depression Four

A tropical depression in the eastern Atlantic Ocean off the coast of northwest Africa could develop into a tropical storm and possibly a hurricane in the next few days, say forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Tropical Depression Four, which is causing thunderstorms and strong winds, is currently located southwest of the Cape Verde […]

Chrysler chemist lashes out

A senior management figure at Chrysler has hit out at five groups he sees standing in the way of alternative fuels. Chrysler Senior Manager of Energy Planning and Policy, Loren Beard, made his remarks at the end of a weeklong industry conference. He named five groups that he says are trying to stop the growth […]

Peak phosphorus

Peak oil has made us aware that many of the resources on which civilization depends are limited. M. King Hubbert, a geophysicist for Shell Oil, found that oil production over time followed a curve that was roughly bell-shaped. He correctly predicted that oil production in the lower 48 states would peak in 1970. Other analysts […]

Oil and Pollution at a Critical Stage

High oil prices and global climate change have come hand in hand. This brings about actions and proposals that may be contradictory, because far from alleviating the problem, they may create additional and very serious difficulties like worsening the world Among the first real impacts of this proposal is the hike of 21 per cent […]

EU expects Britain to deliver on renewable energy commitments

BRUSSELS (AFP) – The EU Commission remains confident that Britain will deliver on its commitments to increase the use of renewable energy sources, despite doubts expressed in London, a Brussels spokesman said Monday. British officials have told government ministers that the country has no chance of meeting its commitments under European Union plans to raise […]

Turkey refuses to back down on Iran energy deal

The Turkish government has reiterated its determination to press ahead with massive investment in the Iranian energy sector, despite U.S. opposition. On August 12 Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler announced that Turkey was determined to implement the terms of a memorandum of understanding signed with Iran on July 13 (CNNTurk, August 12). When the agreement […]

Petrobank tries new twist at oil sands project

Predicts success of Toe-to-Heel Air Injection at Whitesands could mark sea change in how energy is wrung from ground CALGARY — The crude oil produced by Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd.’s Whitesands operation doesn’t appear noticeably different to that produced anywhere else in Alberta. However, the oil represents not only a realization of the company’s […]

Nigeria: Crisis – Oil Workers Threaten Pull-Out From Niger Delta

A major crisis loomed in the nation’s oil and gas industry yesterday as senior workers threatened to withdraw from the Niger Delta if the current spate of killings in the region continues. Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) which issued the threat also charged the Federal Government to summon enough political […]

Net Energy A Useless Misleading And Dangerous Metric Says One Expert

As oil becomes scarce, the world needs new transportation fuels. As new fuel options develop we need means of assessing which are most effective at replacing petroleum. So far many scientists have used a measure called ‘net energy’. However, Professor Bruce Dale from Michigan State University claims, “Net energy analysis is simple and has great […]

Texas power grid braces for record electric use

HOUSTON (Reuters) – Temperatures of 100 degrees Fahrenheit and higher forecast for Monday afternoon across Texas may push electric use in the state to an all-time record, according to the grid operator. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) said power demand might reach 65,911 megawatts as temperatures peak between 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. […]

Blackmail, Sex & Corporate Secrets

When a London tabloid threatened to out Lord Browne, the BP C.E.O. was forced to step down. Now, as the global oil giant struggles with a change in management and a crush of wrongful-death lawsuits, shareholders are learning that his company may also have been leading a double life …Browne had his critics outside the […]

The Grim Reaper pays a visit to Wall Street

…The impending credit crisis canThe oil and natural gas industries should be nationalized with the profits earmarked for vocational training, free college tuition, universal health care and improvements to the nation

Charcoal – fuel or fertiliser?

I received an e-mail comment from a reader in Tasmania on my article, “Peak Oil – expensive food” (Express, July 30), pointing to the research on “agrichar” or “biochar”. The reader was responding to my view that in T&T we have to seek an agricultural system that is less dependent on fossil fuels. “Agrichar” or […]

Trees Won’t Fix Global Warming

The plan to use trees as a way to suck up and store the extra carbon dioxide emitted into Earth’s atmosphere to combat global warming isn’t such a hot idea, new research indicates. Scientists at Duke University bathed plots of North Carolina pine trees in extra carbon dioxide every day for 10 years and found […]

Sugar-fuelled superpower

MANY Brazilians talk of their country as the Brazil might already be heading for Saudi status were it not for America’s 54-cent tax on Brazilian ethanol. But in March George Bush and his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, agreed to promote ethanol

The Pillars of the Next Real Revolution

The next real revolution will be built on at least 8 basic pillars. Each pillar makes an interesting story in its own right, and volumes have been devoted to them as separate trends, but their real revolutionary power lies the fact that they are all unfolding at once. I will do each of them a […]

Global economic expansion hinges on oil

It is feared the world will suffer from a case of absence of spare capacity to meet growing demand. Extra capacity is vital to meet mounting demand on the back of an ever growing global economic expansion. For example, China’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by more than 10 per cent in 2006. China is […]

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