France to test water near reactors after uranium leak

France’s ecology minister has called for tests of the ground water near all of the country’s 58 nuclear reactors after a uranium leak at a plant in the south polluted the local water supply. “I don’t want people to feel that we are hiding anything from them,” Jean-Louis Borloo said in a newspaper interview Thursday. […]

Move Species Threatened by Warming, Scientists Advise

People should help species threatened by climate change move to new habitats, researchers argue in a new paper. Warming temperatures have already sent animals and plants inching toward the poles or climbing up mountains to seek out tolerable habitats.But many species aren’t able to move far enough or will have difficulty fleeing in the future, […]

Texas gives green light to lots more wind power

AUSTIN, Texas – Texas officials gave the go-ahead Thursday to the nation’s largest wind-power project, a plan to build billions of dollars worth of new transmission lines to bring pollution-free energy from gusty West Texas to urban areas. Texas is already the national leader in wind power, and wind supporters say Thursday’s move by the […]

Hydrogen future doable, experts tell Congress

A transition to vehicles that run on hydrogen MSNBC

Nukes Get Small

Big nuclear power plants dominate the headlines and the debate. These projects, involving reactors that produce thousands of megawatts of electric power and requiring many billions of investment dollars, are hotly debated due to their huge costs and concerns about nuclear proliferation. Opponents also question their safety and point to the problem of long-term waste […]

U.S. in five stages of grief over oil prices

The plain truth we are confronting today is this: Cheap energy in any form – oil, gas, whatever – is gone forever. Expensive gasoline is here to stay. But from observing many of the media’s so-called experts, it seems we as a society have not acknowledged this fact. It has been said that when you’ve […]

Fuel cell cars still 15 years away at best: study

DETROIT (Reuters) – Hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles are still 15 years away from becoming a viable business for automakers even if they overcome remaining technical hurdles and the U.S. government provides massive subsidies, a government-funded report said on Thursday. Under a best-case scenario, automakers will only be able to sell about 2 million electric vehicles powered […]

Climate change puts U.S. way of life at risk: EPA

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under fire for apparently discounting the impact of climate change, on Thursday said global warming poses real risk to human health and the American way of life. Risks include more heat-related deaths, more heart and lung diseases due to increased ozone and health problems related to hurricanes, […]

Fuel may fall report

Peak oil, the idea that the quantity of cost-effective oil available to global economies is peaking and will soon decline, has long been regarded by mainstream oil scientists as an idea with little traction. But Paul Graham, leader of CSIRO farmonline

Is a global Great Depression on?

Yes, it’s here. Welcome to the Depression. No, don’t drop whatever it is you’re doing. Don’t get up. It’s not going anywhere. It will wait. It’s just going to sit over here in the corner and read a magazine while you do whatever it is you need to do. A Depression doesn’t run hot and […]

The Fall of the American Empire?

History may point to it. As an avid reader of history, I have been leaning towards the view that we, as a nation, are causing our own collapse. It is a fact that the world great civilizations depicted in history have lasted several hundred years. Is it true that “Nothing lasts forever.”? During the past […]

A fascinating (if dystopian) future

I recently read two fascinating and compelling books by James Howard Kunstler that give a much darker and unsettling view of what the end of the fossil fuel era could mean. One is nonfiction, called The Long Emergency. The other newer one is a novel called World Made By Hand. Both basically depict the same […]

Ivory Coast strike over rising fuel prices paralyzes main city

A strike over rising fuel prices paralyzed Ivory Coast’s main city Thursday, leaving parts of the commercial capital of the world’s leading cocoa producer deserted, witnesses and officials said. A transport strike began Monday in the lagoon-side city of Abidjan, stranding thousands of workers after normally ubiquitous taxis and minibuses stayed off the streets. On […]

Ethiopia hit by diesel shortage

Major towns throughout Ethiopia have been hit by a major shortage of diesel fuel, starting Thursday, July 10, 2008 this week, gas stations were congested with vehicles queuing to fill up their tanks. Damenu Kibret, Public Relations head of the Ethiopian Petroleum Enterprise (EPE), told Capital that the shortage occurred from reduced supply at retail […]

City pumps run

As a result of incessant powercuts, more than 50 per cent of petrol pumps in the city ran out of diesel stock. Panic gripped the city as people were rushing from once petrol pump to another to buy the fuel for the next day. SP Prasad, Chief Divisional Manager, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), denied the […]

Top 10 Most Walkable Cities In America

With gas prices at record highs, a new report on walking couldn’t come at a better time. The site Walk Score has just released a list of America’s 10 most walkable cities. Some cities on the list aren’t surprises Daily Green

New York speeds transformation of yellow cabs to green

New York City’s yellow taxi fleet now will go green at the rate of 300 new hybrid cars a month, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Wednesday, citing an agreement with car-makers to supply the fuel-light cabs. There are already more than 1,300 hybrid taxis in the city, and each one saves its drivers about $6,500 […]

American Airlines, Delta Post Steep Losses as Oil Costs Soar

American Airlines parent AMR and Delta Air Lines yesterday reported steep losses in the second quarter of the year, as the surging cost of oil began to push the industry into survival mode. For passengers, airlines’ declining profitability will mean deeper cuts to service and higher ticket prices in the months ahead as carriers try […]

The Free Green Energy Age (Part 5)

This is the fifth and final article of my HuffPo series on finding an optimal solution for Peak Oil and Global Warming. There is a clear transition of thought from Parts 1 to 5. These points are covered in simple solutions for Planet Earth, shown in the box on the right. Did you know that […]

Oil tumbles for 3rd day following natural gas

NEW YORK (AP) Light, sweet crude for August delivery was down $4.08 at $130.52 a barrel before midday on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices have fallen about $14 in just the past three days. “This market is acting much different than it has during this entire bull run,” said James Cordier, president of Tampa, […]

Cutting Through the Energy Myths

Since crude prices have moved into the stratosphere, the world of oil has become awash in myths and other misinformation about the causes and potential cures for the run-up. The biggest problem with these myths is that they subject policymaking to politics, rather than to economics and engineering. And for Fools, they make targeting an […]

The A to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science

In recent years, scientists who work for and advise the federal government have seen their work manipulated, suppressed, distorted, while agencies have systematically limited public and policy maker access to critical scientific information. To document this abuse, the Union of Concerned Scientists has created the A to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science From […]

Rock Port, Missouri, First 100 % Wind-powered Community In U.S.

Rock Port Missouri, with a population of just over 1,300 residents, has announced that it is the first 100% wind powered community in the United States. Four wind turbines supply all the electricity for the small town. Rock Port Excess wind generated electricity not used by Rock Port homes and businesses is expected to be […]

Rising fuel costs drive fishermen to edge (Japan)

Fishermen across the nation emphasized the unprecedented hardships they are facing as a result of surging fuel prices during industrial action Tuesday, demanding that the government directly subsidize fishing boat fuel. While about 200,000 fishing boats nationwide suspended operations Tuesday in an appeal to the government and consumers, the government is concerned that about potential […]

Oil Supply – The Little Engine That Cantarell

Nobody can consistently predict where short-term oil prices are headed because they just can’t know what new news is coming or just how trigger-happy the traders will be on any given day. The near-term fundamentals are only slightly less muddy. Clearly we’re experiencing some degree of demand destruction as the global economy weakens, people drive […]

Will wood replace oil?

The cost of oil is rising and will continue to rise. At what price do we say enough is enough and abandon oil as a home heating fuel? That’s a decision that each person has to make. Do governments have a role to play in ensuring warm homes via reasonable heating choices in Canada? Most […]

Oil and trouble: Sometimes it’s not worth it

There must come a point when BP and Royal Dutch Shell give up on the whole messy business. In Russia, the chief executive officer of TNK-BP, the British firm’s half-owned Siberian oil producer, is again facing the loss of his Russian visa. In Nigeria, Shell is pondering new threats of violence by militants in speedboats […]

How Technology Increases Oil Production

How can you double something and still have ten times less than you started with? The answer to this question will help us reassess claims that advances in oil field technology will postpone the peak in global oil production. The question itself arises from a case study of Enhanced Oil Recovery in the Handil Oil […]

Gore: Make U.S. electrical energy carbon-free

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The United States should be making all of its electricity with renewable and carbon-free energy in 10 years, former Vice President Al Gore said Thursday. “The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk,” Gore said. In a speech at Washington’s Constitution Hall, Gore touched on […]

Peak oil is a done deal

I now believe that the hypothesis of a near or medium-term peak in the world’s oil supply is confirmed beyond any reasonable doubt. A shift in emphasis that speaks to reducing our demand for oil and examining alternatives to oil is now required. I will be taking that road in the future, leaving specific concerns […]

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