Is Geothermal the Next Hot Energy Source?

Practically every major source of power generation in the world involves the production of heat, which eventually becomes the electricity that we use. Nuclear, coal, natural gas The Earth, much like an onion, is layered

Scientists urged to step to plate on climate politics

Money and politics, the stuff of social science, now drive global warming, and climate science needs to get with it, a National Research Council report suggests. “Demand is growing for credible, understandable and useful information for responding to climate change,” says the report, called Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change. […]

Europeans seek U.S. energy drilling know-how

Colombus, Ohio — With one eye cast toward home, giant European energy companies are investing billions in U.S. natural gas and oil fields where huge, hard-to-get reserves have been unlocked with new drilling technology. That technology is the prize in Europe, where gas production has declined and where an international utility dispute recently left people […]

Bolivia pins hopes on lithium, electric vehicles

President ready to sink $200 million in mining world’s largest reserves LA PAZ, Bolivia – To Bolivia’s president, it’s the great silvery-white hope. Lithium, the lightest metal. Half the density of water. Used in cell phone, laptop and iPod batteries, and in the years to come, many thousands of electric and hybrid vehicles propelling humanity […]

Alaska senator offers compromise bill on ANWR oil

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – A bill introduced Friday by U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska would permit oil production in the ecologically sensitive Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but only from directional wells that are drilled outside the refuge’s borders. Murkowski, a Republican who first announced her plan last week during an address to the Alaska […]

PDVSA to Begin Paying Debt to Contractors Tomorrow

(Bloomberg) — Petroleos de Venezuela SA, the state oil company, will begin to pay as many as 6,000 contractors and domestic vendors in a Dallas-based Ensco International Inc. halted drilling last month because PDVSA was $35.5 million behind on payments. Helmerich & Payne Inc. of Tulsa said Jan. 29 it would idle its 11 rigs […]

The people’s premiere

Made by ‘amateurs’ with cash from ‘crowd-funding’, the new film by Franny Armstrong aims to create 250 million climate change activists Six years ago a young woman with no film training and just one full-length documentary to her name dropped in to the Guardian to ask for some advice. Long before anyone had heard of […]

Vital questions: Oil industry enduring uncertainty over refinery, laws, taxes

The one great indicator of how Kern The unpredictability comes from different quarters. Even if barrel prices were to stabilize in the near term, there would still be important questions to which there are, as of yet, no clear answers for the long term:

Nightline – Grow Your Own

Victory gardens are sprouting up everywhere. ABC News (video)

Embracing the collapse

As the global economy slides into ever-deeper recession, a growing chorus of doomsayers are predicting the end of life as we know it. And maybe that would be a good thing. Unsurprisingly, most elite voices continue to urge calm and feign confidence as they assure the masses that everything will work out in the end. […]

A look ‘back’ at the 21st century and the plight of Hampton Roads

… Old-timers in Hampton Roads can recall large areas of our region east of U.S. Route 17 that were above water and populated. Large areas of Gloucester and York counties, as well as major sections of Hampton, Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, were home to thriving communities, businesses, factories and other assets. The city of […]

Black is the new green

In Brazil Terra preta, modern analysis has proved, is one of the last remaining traces of pre-Columbian agriculture in the Amazon basin. It was made more than 2,500

Lacking fuel, Tajikistan slides into darkness

TURDIBOBO, Tajikistan (AFP) – Twice a day, the students in this village school just outside the Tajik capital rush out of their classrooms bundled in layors of heavy winter clothing. They aren’t running outside to play in the snow — they’re jockeying for position to warm their hands around the school’s only heater, which now […]

Obama

Until recently, the idea that the world But within weeks of taking office, President Obama has radically shifted the global equation, placing the United States at the forefront of the international climate effort and raising hopes that an effective international accord might be possible. Mr. Obama

Crisis may force Opec members to cut barriers

Even as the financial crisis may force some Opec members to lay down barriers for entry of international oil companies (IOCs), the Middle East-based national oil companies (NOCs) with stronger balance sheets will not do the same, an energy analysis firm said in a recent update. Washington based energy analysis firm PFC Energy said countries […]

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