Rare Breeds, Frozen in Time

Huge dreadlocked Cotswold sheep are too big and slow-growing for commercial acceptance. Sleek Milking Devon cattle have the flaw of being dual-purpose livestock in a farm economy that demands specialization Consider goat meat, once relegated to Caribbean, Hispanic and Middle Eastern immigrant enclaves. A decade ago, who would have guessed that it would become a […]

Jeff Rubin: Why energy efficiency means higher consumption

Efficiency may be the holy grail of the economist, but it That

Michael Klare – The Blowback Effect, 2020

By the end of the second decade of this century, however, our world is likely to have a genuinely different look to it. Momentous shifts in global power relations and a changing of the imperial guard, just now becoming apparent, will be far more pronounced by 2020 as new actors, new trends, new concerns, and […]

Mike Ruppert: The world is falling apart

As I write, the world is falling apart. Military forces from all major powers are flooding the Gulf of Aden, using piracy and terrorism as a pretext. This is all jockeying in anticipation of a major, and possibly total, war in and around the Persian Gulf — where 60% of the planet’s known oil is. […]

45mbpd extra oil capacity required in 20 years to meet rising global demand

Oil producers need to generate an extra crude output capacity of about 45 million barrels per day in the next 20 years to meet rising demand and offset a steady decline in major fields, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said. The bulk of the increase is expected to come from Saudi Arabia and other […]

Japanese project aims to turn CO2 into natural gas

Japanese researchers said Wednesday they hoped to enlist bacteria in the fight against global warming to transform carbon dioxide buried under the seabed into natural gas. The researchers at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology aim to activate bacteria found naturally in earth to turn CO2 into methane, a major component of natural […]

U.S. Scrapped More Cars Than Bought New Ones

Americans scrapped more automobiles than they bought last year as the ragged economy reduced demand and some major cities expanded mass transit service, according to a new report. The United States scrapped 14 million autos while buying only 10 million last year, shrinking the country’s car and light duty truck fleet to 246 million from […]

Mexico Vows To Set New Efficiency Rules For Autos

Mexico will limit imports of inefficient used cars and encourage low-carbon technology to reduce its overall volume of tailpipe exhaust, the energy ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry said it was also mulling regulations that would for the first time set a national standard for auto emissions. Such standards would be at the “vanguard” of […]

UK Offshore Wind Costs Can Fall 40 Percent: Carbon Trust

New technology and careful choice of sites could slash projected costs for Britain’s next round of offshore wind farm project by as much as 40 percent, the Carbon Trust, which advises the government, said on Tuesday. Capital investment required for Round 3 offshore wind projects could fall to 45 billion pounds ($72.5 billion) from current […]

Statoil launch new biofuel in Norway

Statoil is the first company in Norway to offer 5 per cent bioethanol to general consumers. From January 2010 onwards 40 per cent of Statoil’s stations will be selling the new biofuel “Bensin 95”. According to Statoil, the new biofuel will reduce carbon emissions by about 11,000 tonnes annually.All petrol driven vehicles can use Bensin […]

National Grid warns of UK gas shortage

There were urgent calls for Britain to build more gas storage facilities tonight after the National Grid warned of temporary gas shortages as demand neared record highs during the freezing weather. The shadow energy secretary, Greg Clark, accused the government of having its “head in the sand” for failing to ensure that more storage facilities […]

India May Have Become Top Buyer of South African Coal

India may have overtaken Europe for the first time as the biggest purchaser of South African coal in 2009, according to Raymond Chirwa, Richards Bay Coal Terminal’s chief executive officer. Shipment levels to India and Europe in the year’s first 10 months were similar, while the final two months are being calculated, Chirwa said in […]

Cold snap spurs power rationing in China

Cities across eastern and central China are rationing power for industry and urging residents to limit gas use after a wave of icy weather sent energy demand soaring while straining supplies of coal that were already tight. Much of China’s manufacturing and farming heartland shivered on Wednesday under snow, sleet and unusual cold that drove […]

China faces new risk: attacks on pipelines

BEIJING — As oil and gas pipelines are quickly extended in China to meet soaring fuel demands, the nation will face increasing threats to its environment, territorial safety and energy security, experts said. Efforts were urged recently by energy experts for the nation to protect and strengthen the pipelines in light of the Dec. 30 […]

Coal trips India

Vehicles that do not use carb-on-based fossil fuels, petrol or diesel generate great enthusiasm in an age of rising carbon emission and global temperatures. They could attract crowds to rival the 1.8 million who turned out in 2008, where the star attraction was the Nano. But the companies themselves admit a growing skepticism over next-gen […]

Chesapeake says NY could drive away gas drillers

Accuses environmentalists of promoting “fear and panic” NEW YORK (Reuters) – Chesapeake Energy has called proposed New York state regulations for the shale gas drilling industry unnecessarily onerous and likely to scare energy companies out of state, depriving New York of badly needed revenue. The sentiment was supported by competitor Fortuna Energy, a subsidiary of […]

Britain must launch GM food revolution, says chief scientist

Britain must embrace genetically modified crops and cutting-edge developments such as nanotechnology to avoid catastrophic food shortages and future climate change, the government’s chief scientist will warn today. In the clearest public signal yet that the government wants a hi-tech farming revolution, Professor John Beddington will say UK scientists need to urgently d evelop “a […]

Study: Nitrogen limits add to warming

2 F by 2100 possible, experts say, citing impact on plants Usually when we worry about global warming, carbon is all we think about. But it turns out we have a new element to worry about: nitrogen. Specifically, the lack of it. Humanity’s carbon-belching habit is a feast for plants, which consume the greenhouse gas […]

Importing Solar Power with Biomass

Every six hours the sun bathes the lands of the earth in as much energy as the world consumes in a year. If we could just find a way to collect and distribute that energy our energy problems would be solved. Unfortunately, most of our energy consumption is in the places with the least sunshine […]

Russia beckons Belarus to heel in oil supply row

MOSCOW/MINSK (Reuters) – Russia is trying to bring Belarus to heel by threatening to cut at least $2.5 billion in energy subsidies that prop up the economy of its ex-Soviet neighbor, analysts said. Russia briefly cut oil supplies to Belarussian refineries this month in the dispute over Belarus’s lucrative business in exports of oil products […]

Arctic Ocean awakening as ice melts

Sleepiest ocean is mixing more and supporting more summer life Earth’s sleepiest ocean is waking, say researchers. The Arctic Ocean’s ice-capped depths have been quiet for millennia, thanks to winds being largely unable to ruffle the surface and stir things up. The rapid loss of summer ice cover is changing all that, however, creating internal […]

Peak oil review – Jan 4

Top 10 Stories of 2009 1. Economies in Contraction 2. Prices Rebound 3. Asia: Growth or Bubble? 4. Changing Perceptions of Peak Oil … 5. New oil supplies underwhelm, except for Khurais 6. Oil production declines continue

Tam Hunt: The Decade of Climate Change and Peak Oil

Despite my general optimism about the future, I still worry greatly about the threat of peak oil, over and above the threat of climate change (as I IEA finally started listening to the peak-oil crowd and completed a supply-side analysis in 2008 of the world

Peak oil: Are we there yet?

For some time now, and with greater frequency lately, energy analysts have been predicting that the output of conventional oil will soon peak unless something is done to reduce demand. Predictions of the date of this event have varied from In the International Energy Agency

Amory Lovins: Freeing America from its addiction to oil

Snowmass, Colorado (CNN) — Oil is on its way out. That journey will take several decades, but it’s begun. Mindful markets and civil society will complete it as inexorably as innovators and capitalists got America off whale-oil lamps in the 1850s. My 2005 TED talk explained how to get the United States completely off oil […]

Pemex Oil Output May Rise After 7 Years of Decline

(Bloomberg) — Petroleos Mexicanos may produce more crude in 2011 after seven years of plunging output, the state- owned oil company said in a presentation. Pemex, as the Mexico City-based company is known, may produce 2.55 million barrels a day next year, up 50,000 barrels from the forecast for 2010, Carlos Morales, head of exploration […]

Britain must grow more sustainable food, says Benn

Britain must grow more food in a different way to respond to mounting ecological challenges such as climate change, and help provide food for burgeoning world populations, the environment secretary Hilary Benn has told farmers. “Food security is as important to this country’s future wellbeing Launching the government’s food strategy goals for the next 20 […]

Australia suffers hottest decade as globe warms

SYDNEY (AFP) Senior climatologist Dean Collins said the average for the decade — about 22.3 degrees Celsius (72.1 Fahrenheit) — was 0.48 degrees Celsius (0.89 F) above Australia’s 1961-1990 benchmark average and an indication of man-made global warming. “For the past six decades, each decade has been warmer than the preceding one,” Collins told AFP. […]

UK: Pensioners burn books for warmth

Hard-up pensioners have resorted to buying books from charity shops and burning them to keep warm. Volunteers have reported that Workers at one charity shop in Swansea, in south Wales, described how the most vulnerable shoppers were seeking out thick books such as encyclopaedias for a few pence because they were cheaper than coal. One […]

C.I.A. Is Sharing Data With Climate Scientists

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