World’s largest fusion device goes back to work

September is commonly the month where things begin to gather pace again, and in the world of fusion energy research, things are no different. European scientists working on the Joint European Torus (JET), the world’s largest magnetic confinement fusion device, are about to embark on the first round of experiments following a 22-month period where […]

How Small Is That Revised Marcellus Estimate?

I see in The Hill that some critics of shale gas drilling are pointing to a revised estimate of the shale gas resources in the Marcellus formation as evidence that there’s not enough gas to justify any risk from hydraulic fracturing. Earlier this week the US Geological Survey updated its previous estimate to 84 trillion […]

Who Are America’s Top 10 Gas Drillers?

Natural gas—often touted as an abundant, comparatively clean source of domestic energy—has come under intensifying public scrutiny in recent months, with federal regulators and reporters challenging some of the industry’s rosy business projections. The Securities and Exchange Commission is probing whether gas companies have exaggerated their reserves [1] and have adequately disclosed the risks to […]

Teaching peak oil to preteens

What will our cities look like from a preteen’s perspective in the not-too-distant future when peak oil pushes gas and food prices to new heights? No rides to the mall? No eating out? City-wide blackouts? Catastrophic! It was to Luz and her friends at first, but through a little bit of creativity and preteen gumption […]

The return of the BP disaster?

Fifteen months after BP’s crippled Macondo Well in the Gulf of Mexico caused the worst environmental disaster in US history, oil and oil sheen covering several square miles of water are surfacing not far from BP’s well. According to oil trackers with the organisation On Wings of Care who have been monitoring the oil since […]

Natural Gas, “Fracking”, Water and $500 Billion

There is a parallel, shifted in time by 5 years, debate raging in the United States and Australia. This debate involves natural gas production, the only way to actually do it through hydraulic fracturing and the purported environmental risks to the land and to drinking water aquifers. Buoyed by fatally flawed and alarmist documentaries like […]

National Energy Policy: The Cheney Law Massacre

The US National Energy Policy of 2005 was created under Dick Cheney’s Energy Task Force in secret meetings; evidence shows that the energy industry influences foreign policy and may have led us into the Iraq War. Cheney’s National Energy Policy is also responsible for electricity deregulation scams, corporate welfare for energy producers and many other […]

Armed forces raid BP’s Moscow offices

BP defended itself against a raid by bailiffs and armed special forces troopers on its Moscow office on Wednesday, describing it as “part of a pressure campaign against BP’s business in Russia”. Speaking in Moscow, Jeremy Huck, President of BP Russia, added that the company believed the actions were “without merit”. The raid, ordered Tuesday […]

Ignoring peak oil and scarcity – political myopia?

Oil will one day run out and without a comparable substitute – we can expect a return to 1970s-style oil shocks. And, yet, politicians and economists prefer to ignore the truth If you are lucky enough to have been born in an industrialised country and old enough to remember the oil crises of the 1970s, […]

Let’s view the present crisis from a historical point of view.

Humanity took 200,000 years to reach one billion inhabitants in 1804. It then took 127 years to reach the second billion in 1927. The next billion increases were reached, respectively, in 1960, 1975, 1986 and 1999. Never before did world population increase that way. Why? Humanity lacked the knowledge that would be gained in Western […]

Simple ‘Wind Lens’ Triples Output from Wind Turbines

Cryptogon has a pointer to a Discovery article on a new Japanese wind turbine design – Japan: Simple ‘Wind Lens’ Triples Output from Wind Turbines. Apparently a worker at Fukushima has died of “acute Leukaemia” as well – Japan: Nuclear Plant Worker Dies of Acute Leukemia. The wheel in the sky keeps on turning — […]

What Is Your Energy Philosophy?

People seem to like to infer motives. (Perhaps it’s an inherent evolutionary trait, allowing anticipation of your prey’s or predator’s next move?) I find that a lot of people get me wrong about my position on energy and sustainability — often deliberately so, I suspect. So here’s a post to clarify my position, and allow […]

Exxon Mobil’s Arctic Deal In Russia: Showcasing The Difficulties Of Finding New Oil Reserves

If you turn the clock back to the turn of the century you will see oil prices in the $20 range, every middle class family in America with two cars and per capita car growth in Asia growing rapidly. Today we have oil near $90, every middle class family in America with two cars and […]

The Importance of Alternative Energy to the U.S. Military

Much has been written on the dependency of the US military on oil. However, most of the writings focus on the supply side of the issue and emphasize the role of technology primarily on alternative fuel production. A US Army research paper by Colonel Fields is rather different. That is why this post is about […]

The Peak Oil Crisis: A Billion Vehicles

Last month Wards Auto published a story pointing out that the world’s motor vehicle count was now over 1 billion. As could be expected, registered vehicles in China grew by 27.5 percent to 78 million last year. Don’t worry; the U.S. is still well ahead in the who-has-the-most-cars race with 240 million registered vehicles, but […]

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