Collapse of the petrodollar looming
The announcement by President Putin of a Russian bourse trading oil and gas in Roubles
threatens the stability of the US Dollar far more than Iran’s bourse alone would do,
and continues the slide in relations between the old Cold War foes.
May 17, 2006
Does nuclear power produce no CO2 ?
Fossil fuels, especially oil in the form of gasoline and diesel, are essential to every stage of the nuclear cycle, and CO2 is given off whenever these are used. (Photo essay)
May 11, 2006
Reply to Cobb’s article on net energy
Energy Bulletin readers would have found little difficulty in accepting the critical importance of what Cobb calls “net energy” to the world’s energy future. However net energy is a notoriously difficult figure to pin down.
April 12, 2006