Trade, Investment, Power and the China-in-Africa Discourse

Our arguments are threefold: 1) given the world system, it is difficult to assess the pluses and minuses of China-in-Africa as a single phenomenon; 2) as a player in the world system, China in Africa has more in common with the West than is usually acknowledged; 3) there are nevertheless notable differences between Western and […]

Chinese Law Aims to Increase the Use of Renewable Energy

China announced new regulations to increase the use of renewable energy such as wind and hydropower by forcing electricity-grid operators to prioritize their use, in a bid by the world’s top greenhouse-gas emitter to reduce its reliance on coal. The new measures were passed Saturday by the standing committee of the National People’s Congress, China’s […]

Saudi Arabia oil sector GDP drops to $62.5bn

Saudi Arabia’s oil sector gross domestic product fell 6.4 per cent this year, its worst performance in at least four years, data showed yesterday, after Opec’s most influential member cut output to support declining prices. Oil sector’s GDP, which accounts to around 54pc of overall output of the world’s largest Arab economy, reached 234.3 billion […]

Renewables and Modern Physics

As I’ve written abundantly at 2GreenEnergy.com, I’m a believer in the Conservation of Energy. I hate to sound small-minded, but I spend very little of my short life here on earth contemplating the truth of claims regarding machines that produce more energy than they consume. Having said that, I don’t write off energy-related ideas merely […]

Gwynne Dyer: The United States empire takes a hit in the "Noughties"

The old order is passing, the US.. dollar is on its way out as the only global currency, and the real power is shifting to mainland Asia. Or is it? There are two trends that could slow or even stop this shift. They seemed quite distant at the start of the decade, but now they […]

Growing chorus says oil has peaked

DALLAS, TEXAS // Jim Baldauf, a former oilman, remembers the days when it seemed like you could punch a hole in the ground just about anywhere in Texas and hit a gusher. Now explorers in the southern US state of Texas find themselves drilling down further, and then turning horizontally for a while, and then […]

Oil And Environment: A Contradiction

Among the factors in systemic collapse that should be placed far down on the list are many that might be described as environmental: pollution, global warming, and so on. The fact is that the issue of peak oil and that of the environment are mutually exclusive problems. As oil and other fossil fuels disappear, the […]

The Rumford fireplace – energy-efficiency rediscovered

I confess I didn

Indonesia likely to miss 2009's oil output target

JAKARTA (Xinhua) — Indonesia may fall short of this year’s oil-production target of 960,000 barrels per day due to technical problem, a media reported here Saturday. Head of upstream oil and gas regulator BP Migas, Raden Priyono quoted by the Jakarta globe as saying that the total crude and condensate output is likely to reach […]

Air Quality Guidelines Face Unexpected Critics

California But some environmentalists and city planners fear that the new set of guidelines being considered by the region

Fury over

The Scottish government has been criticised for publishing a report that claims climate change could make Scots healthier and provide an economic boost by encouraging more tourism. The study says climate change would make traditional resorts in Spain and Italy unbearably hot in the summer, prompting holidaymakers to venture further north to countries such as […]

Brazil Aims to Prevent Land Grabs in Amazon

VILA DOS CRENTES, Brazil

Less oil may spell problems for pipeline

The declining flow of oil from Alaska’s North Slope is creating anxiety among executives who run the trans-Alaska pipeline. Within a matter of years, they say, they will need to take costly steps to preserve the life of the 800-mile-long line. If they aren’t successful, ice and wax could become a serious problem for the […]

Generating Solar Power After Dark

Solar farms that would serve two Western utilities are planning to use technology that will generate electricity after the sun goes down, a move that could be a potential game-changer for the industry. The two farms being planned by SolarReserve of Santa Monica, Calif., would store the sun’s energy in molten salt, releasing the heat […]

Another decade down

Farmers face new challenges and old ones …Ten years ago, the likes of best-selling authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), had not yet surfaced with their hard-hitting questions about modern agriculture, food policy and the linkages to public health. Pollan’s influence on public perceptions has been so significant, some […]

Panasonic develops methanol fuel cell system; high power output, durability

Panasonic Corporation announced it has developed a direct methanol fuel cell system which can produce an average power output of 20 W by increasing the output per cubic centimeter twice that of its previous prototype. Using this technology, Panasonic aims to develop a 100 W-class portable generator and start field testing in fiscal 2012 ending […]

Plastic people: We're all experimental chemists now

Human beings, whether consciously aware of it or not, have conducted a 150-year chemistry experiment on the earth with the burning of fossil fuels. The results of that experiment are now clear and indisputable, even though the resolve of world leaders to do anything about it In his book Green Intelligence (Yale Press), John Wargo, […]

Awesomely Bad Corporate Video:

It may not qualify for Iron Eagles, our collection of the awesomely bad videos of the military-industrial complex. But Gazprom, Russia The lyrics (shown in subtitle) are pukeworthy as well. A sample of the chorus: Let

Russia to start eastward oil, gas shipments via Arctic in 2010

Sovcomflot, Russia’s largest shipping company, will start delivering Russian oil and gas in the eastern direction of its Arctic shipping lane in the summer, the company head said on Saturday. At a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Sergei Frank said Sovcomflot was planning to launch pilot shipments of Russian hydrocarbon reserves in the […]

Peak Oil: No Joke!

Fans of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart will be familiar with British comedian John Oliver, while British readers may also know his sidekick Andy Zaltman, who together have created a weekly audio podcast called The Bugle, in which they provide a comedic, often bawdy and satirical, perspective on the news of the day. In […]

When it comes to sustainability, act locally

What will our local communities look like in 2025? If peak oil is real, the supply of fossil fuels in the future will be severely limited and supplying it will be cost prohibitive. Cheap oil will be exhausted when the amount we can pump from the ground (or make from tar sands) is less than […]

Tugboat Spills Fuel Oil After Hitting Same Reef as Exxon Valdez in

ANCHORAGE (AP) Senator Mark Begich, Democrat of Alaska, said it was troubling that a spill-response vessel

India Facing Fierce Competition in its Search for Oil and Natural Gas Resources

While energy-strapped India is scouring the globe for oil and gas – a bid that recently took it to Sudan and Russia where India signed two memoranda of understanding, and to Iran where it forged two agreements Large, cash-rich public-sector companies like the Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) and the Indian Oil Corp. are […]

Age of Anxiety

…Our sense of panic is only inflated by books such as Our Final Century, by Royal Society president Martin Rees, who lists bio-engineered viruses, asteroids, nanotechnology and nuclear war as among the many dangers we face. Tomes on peak oil theory such as Richard Heinberg’s The Party’s Over and The Long Emergency by James Kunstler […]

Ten years that shook, rattled, rolled and helped repair the world

Everyone expected resource wars as scarce petroleum and water supplies led nations and communities to battle over their access. That didn From that point onward, the price of food became directly linked to the price of energy. The two have followed one another up and down since, with huge repercussions. The global food riots of […]

Iraqi and Iranian forces in oil well standoff

AMARA, Iraq (Reuters) — Iraqi and Iranian forces are dug in on either side of a disputed inactive oil well in the sensitive border area, with Iraqis vowing to fight if necessary to fend off another occupation of the well by Iranian soldiers. Iraqi troops say they will defend the well, where Iranian troops raised […]

Natural Gas and Capitalism to the Rescue

The Marcellus Shale formation reaching from the Appalachians to central New York State illustrates why natural gas is enjoying a new popularity in the energy limelight. Just seven years ago, the US Geologic Service estimated recoverable reserves in the Marcellus to be 1.9 trillion cubic feet (tcf). Then in 2008 a pair of geologists — […]

Rise of Wind Turbines Is a Boon for Rope Workers

MAHANOY TOWNSHIP, Pa.

Oil price might rise "reasonably" – Saudi king in paper

RIYADH (Reuters) – Oil prices are stabilising and might even rise “reasonably,” Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah was quoted as saying by a Kuwaiti newspaper. The top OPEC oil exporter reiterated it saw a fair oil price between $75 and $80 per barrel, King Abdullah told the daily al-Seyassah in an interview. “We expected at the […]

Storm clouds ahead for America

Just two and a half weeks after he was elected and before he even set foot in the White House, U.S. President Barack Obama was presented with a 120- page report that was supposed to help him to peer into the future. The top analysts at the U.S. National Intelligence Council had spent a year […]

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