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News from December 2009

Down on the Farm, an Endless Cycle of Waste

GUSTINE, Tex. Lots of cow manure. A typical lactating Holstein produces about 150 pounds of waste

Natural-Gas Producers Seek Long-Term Contracts

In a sign that low natural-gas prices are probably here to stay, big U.S. energy companies are pushing to sign long-term contracts with electric utilities and other customers. Major producers such as Chesapeake Energy Corp. and Devon Energy Corp. are trying to reach multiyear deals — likely five or 10 years long–that would guarantee them […]

FACTBOX – China's strategic oil reserve plan

BEIJING (Reuters) – China has started building a 3 million cubic metre (19 million barrel) strategic crude oil reserve facility in Lanzhou in Gansu province and plans to start operating it in 2011, state media reported. Lanzhou is among the sites for the second of three phases of crude oil reserves. China hopes to complete […]

PG&E Customer Revolt May Threaten Rollout of Obama

(Bloomberg) — Consumer backlash and cost concerns may cause delays in the nationwide rollout of Martha Johnson, pastor of a church in Bakersfield, said her utility bill almost doubled from a year earlier to $874 in July after her new meter was installed.

Jeff Rubin: How much longer will our Chinese food be delivered?

If you think you No matter what the crop, the most important input is always energy

Economides: The Botched Airline Bombing and Our National Nervous Breakdown

…Other than the healthcare issue, in my area of interest, energy, there have been two very important events recently that both warrant major national attention, potentially worth trillions. The first was the recent bid for Iraqi oil fields in which, the Iraqi government, showing a marked independence from the expectations of the conspiracy and the […]

Developing answers to the oil shortage

For the past month, this column has focused on the limited supplies of and unlimited demand for oil. The future looks bleak with an oil shortage that we as a nation seem ill prepared to handle. But, given that our public and private sectors can gain a sense of urgency and take a more dedicated […]

Arctic Could Face Warmer and Ice-Free Conditions

There is increased evidence that the Arctic could face seasonally ice-free conditions and much warmer temperatures in the future. Scientists documented evidence that the Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas were too warm to support summer sea ice during the mid-Pliocene warm period (3.3 to 3 million years ago). This period is characterized by warm temperatures […]

Experts: Quick action needed to prevent Arab region water crisis

(MENAFN – Jordan Times) With people in over 17 Arab countries living well below the water poverty line of 500 cubic metres annually, Arab decision makers on Monday called for coordinated efforts to address the impact of climate change on the limited resource. Experts said more than 75 per cent of the surface water in […]

Older drivers face choice between safety and mobility

The generation that gave birth to suburbia and the two-car garage is reaching the age at which driving, for many, no longer seems like such a swell option. As Americans grow older — one in five will be 65 or older by 2030 — many are finding that the world that lured them away from […]

Is thin trading driving oil prices?

“We continue to be of the opinion that the real driver of the oil market last week and this week is the lack of trading volume in the futures market and not really the lack of oil supplies.” These were the recent words of Olivier Jakob of Petromatrix in Switzerland, and are yet another example […]

Ethanol Industry: Protect Corn to Save Second-Gen Biofuels

The latest line from two ethanol industry groups suing California over its low-carbon fuel standard goes something like this: Second-generation biofuels will die unless corn-based ethanol is protected. The Renewable Fuels Association and Growth Energy filed a lawsuit in federal court last week challenging the constitutionality of California A quick recap: The low-carbon fuel standard […]

How Algal Biofuels Lost a Decade in the Race to Replace Oil

For nearly 20 years, a government laboratory built a living, respiring library of carefully collected organisms in search of something that could grow quickly while producing something precious: oil. But now that collection has largely been lost. National Renewable Energy Laboratory scientists found and isolated around 3,000 species algae from construction ditches, seasonal desert ponds […]

Peak oil review – Dec 28

1. Prices and Production 2. Iran 2010 Quote of the Week The Briefs 1. Prices and Production Crude prices rose steadily last week closing above $78 a barrel, the highest close in three weeks. Rising equity markets, expectations that the US economy will improve soon, another drop in US stockpiles, and a weaker dollar all […]

Acidic oceans: The 'evil twin' of warming

Seas absorb CO2 but that stunts some coral, other skeletal marine life MONTEREY BAY NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY, Calif. – If the world ever does get around to significantly reducing carbon emissions, the sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters reposing along the shoreline and kelp forests of this protected marine area will be among the […]

Dark days at the centre of Europe

The Baltic state of Lithuania — sandwiched between Latvia and the Russian exclave Kalingrad — faces an economic contraction of 18 percent for 2009. To that the government has said it will add a 30 percent increase in household power prices in 2010, as it fulfils a condition of European Union membership and shuts Ignalina, […]

Russia, Ukraine agree oil deal to avert supply cut

Ukraine says Russia agrees to a 30 percent tariff rise KIEV/MOSCOW, Dec 29 (Reuters) – Ukraine and Russia have signed a deal on oil transit for 2010, allaying fears of supply cuts to Europe, in a deal Ukrainian state energy firm Naftogaz says will require Moscow to pay 30 percent more in transit fees. Russia […]

Insight: Prepare for lower oil prices

The outlook for the oil price remains mired in much confusion. Peak oil theorists see production in terminal decline. Others, who expect the oil price to revisit its 2008 highs, argue that rapid demand growth from emerging markets, most notably China, will underpin a long and aggressive rally in the price. Some even argue that […]

Scientists Argue for a New Type of Climate Target

A warming rate of more than 0.2 . In a new paper in Nature Reports Climate Change, Steffen Kallbekken, Nathan Rive, Glen P. Peters and Jan S. Fuglestvedt from CICERO Center for International Climate and Environmental Research — Oslo, argue for a new type of climate target to be considered: “Focusing climate policy on a […]

Economists Warn of a Climate Trade War

John Kerry was on a roll. At the Copenhagen climate summit, the former US presidential candidate delivered a fiery speech that was mostly directed at China. If the US has to accept binding targets for reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, then Beijing must do the same, Kerry told his audience. Workers in the US should […]

Solar Could Generate 15% of Power by 2020, If US Ends Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Solar power technologies could generate 15 percent of America’s power in 10 years, but only if Washington levels the playing field on subsidies, a report by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) says. That means either rolling back fossil fuel subsidies, as President Obama proposed earlier this year, or increasing subsidies for clean energy, the […]

UAE to sell nuclear power, free more oil to export

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DUBAI (Reuters) – A $40 billion deal by the United Arab Emirates to acquire nuclear reactors puts it ahead in a drive to meet fast growing power needs among its Gulf neighbors, while also allowing it to export more of its oil. The prospect of starting electricity exports within the next decade is a key […]

A Convenient Delusion

The same sort of public relations wizardry that once convinced a sizeable portion of Americans that cigarette smoking was harmless, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and had a hand in the 9/11 attacks, that Al Gore claimed to have invented the internet, and that John Kerry’s war record was fraudulent, is now […]

Can farming save Detroit?

Every weekday Hantz pulls his Volvo SUV out of the gated driveway of his compound and drives half an hour to his office in Southfield, a northern suburb on the far side of Eight Mile Road. His route takes him through a desolate, postindustrial cityscape — the kind of scene that is shockingly common in […]

Emissions Disclosure as a Business Virtue

Cupping their hands near holes drilled for cable routing, workers at the Boeing Company Yet Boeing

Asia's green-tech rivals

The battle lines are being drawn in Asia over green technologies, as governments adapt their tradition of state influence on industry for an era in which eco-friendly products may spell export success. In China, Japan, South Korea and elsewhere, a big portion of fiscal-stimulus measures is dedicated to green projects. It is seen as a […]

Munich Re Sees Climate-Related Losses Mounting

FRANKFURT — Munich Re AG, one of the world’s largest reinsurers, Tuesday said economic and insured losses caused by climate change will continue to grow, and called for a near-term deal to ensure a substantial reduction in global greenhouse-gas emissions. “We need as soon as possible an agreement that significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions because […]

Survivalism Lite

They call themselves ‘preppers.’ They are regular people with homes and families. But like the survivalists that came before them, they’re preparing for the worst. Lisa Bedford is what you’d imagine of a stereotypical soccer mom. She drives a white Tahoe SUV. An American flag flies outside her suburban Phoenix home. She sells Pampered Chef […]

Shell chief calls 2010 'challenging' for refining, costs

Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest oil company, expects the pressure on refining margins and costs to persist next year amid a challenging economic situation. Shell and competitors such as Exxon Mobil Corp. are cutting costs as they seek to rebuild profits battered by a global recession and reduced energy demand. Shell, whose refining earnings […]

Can a solar-powered airplane be the future of aviation?

While the world’s attention was tuned to the recent global climate conference in Copenhagen, in an old airplane hangar on a small Swiss airfield, a group of visionaries, dreamers and engineers was busily assembling a vehicle that is their solution to global climate change and the future of commercial aviation. This airplane uses no fossil […]

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