Figuring land use into renewable-energy equation

The most land-intensive of all renewable energy sources is biofuels, particularly biodiesel, according to the analysis that Andrews presented. Meeting 100 percent of the world’s energy needs with ethanol from sugar cane would require nearly three times the amount of land now used for farming. Ethanol from corn or the cellulose in plants requires more […]

UK Government review to examine threat of world resources shortage

British Ministers have ordered a review of looming global shortages of resources, from fish and timber to water and precious metals, amid mounting concern that the problem could hit every sector of the economy. The study has been commissioned following sharp rises in many commodity prices on the world markets and recent riots in some […]

Wake Up…

If we don’t act quickly to nuke the leaking basin, we will experience the worst ecologic disaster of the century… perhaps ever. The Russians have done this three times on record. Google is your friend. That is all. Praise HawkMan.

BP Tries Again

BP says in the latest procedure, it will use robots to slice off the leaking riser pipe where it connects to the blow-out preventer, the huge stack of valves that sits on the seabed atop the ruptured well. A containment cap with a rubber seal will be placed over the cut riser and will draw […]

Modeling Oil Exploration and Production

Kristofer Jakobsson defended his licentiate thesis. Modeling Oil Exploration and Production: Resource-Constrained and Agent-Based Approaches Energy is essential to the functioning of society, and oil is the single largest commercial energy source. Some analysts have concluded that the peak in oil production is soon about to happen on the global scale, while others disagree. Such […]

Americans should be thanking BP

It is easy to understand American hostility to BP, but it is fundamentally misplaced. Never mind that Transocean and Halliburton were also involved and it seems there is plenty of blame to go round. Never mind that more oil is spilled every year in the Niger Delta, where Shell and Exxon are the big operators, […]

New study says gas can be engineered

The prevailing belief with oil and gas is that they’re finite, or non-renewable, resources – in other words, what’s there is there. But what if that’s not true? What if, wonders one Houston geochemist, the gas that comes up isn’t just sitting underground waiting for extraction, but instead is “engineered.” Catalytic gas is the idea […]

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