Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Oil Sands’ Natural Gas Demand Expected to Triple /
Are Gasoline Alternatives Fuel for a Revolution? /
EU countries seek to annex lucrative tract of Atlantic seabed /
Oil price surge may delay airline recovery /
Can oil companies handle more storms? /
Saudi oil production for April dropped to 9.1 million b/d
Energy in the form of hydrogen, as well as biofuels, is one of the few mainstays of hope for clinging to global economic growth. What of lifestyle change and truly sustainable, local economics? That’s not what’s being planned for you.
Road to Perdition (the ‘streetcar conspiracy’) /
Shell looks to turn sand into oil /
Oil-Rich Venezuela Looks to Tar Deposits /
Ethantol: Lessons from Brazil /
GMO bacterium to produces 86% ethanol
Post Carbon Relocalization Network Meeting (great list of projects) /
Brian Goodwin on redesigning universities and the monetary system for Peak Oil /
Norway: Wood-to-Diesel Project /
Urban Wind Farms – coming to a town near you /
AfterCulture – future anthropology
Quest for energy alternatives heats up / Fill ‘er up with corn and politics / Solving our carbon addiction without choking growth
Of the more than 6 billion people now on earth, 3.7 billion suffer from some form of malnutrition. For these reasons and others now does not seem like a good time to embark on a program to turn a significant portion of the world’s food crops into fuel for automobiles.
Use of corn for fuel may push up prices of food /
Author Jeff Goodell on Big Coal /
Coal may be fuel of the future, but industry battles over path / Seven nation group to pursue fusion energy research /
Shale oil and co-products
The food vs. ethanol production debate is beginning to heat up. However it will be short one, writes Tom Whipple. While there are acceptable alternatives to putting corn into your gas tank such as slowing down, staying home, taking a bus, or joining a car pool, there are no substitutes for eating.
Do biofuels suck for deep fundamental unchangeable reasons? Or for contingent reasons that might be amenable to change over time with technological innovation? The answer might not be so obvious.
Military focuses on energy / BBC survey: your electricity choices revealed /
Drilling in troubled waters (hurricanes) / Enough coal on hand to keep US cool? / A new reliance on coal could sap green cred from the ethanol industry
Sugar rises as costlier crude oil spurs demand for ethanol / China: Oil-producing trees to help solve fuel shortage / Giant grass to get larger role in energy supply
If you were the proverbial Martian, visiting our planet to dispassionately assess our energy options, what would you find most promising? Would it be nuclear power? “Clean coal”? Ethanol? You’d only decide on those options if you happen to be an uncommonly gullible Martian.
