US: Biodiesel Boom Well-Timed
News item discussing expansion of biodiesel outlets & home-producers in USA, cost & running benefits.
Renewable Energy
Research funds for renewable energy must rise -IEA
PARIS – Governments must spend more on research and development of renewable energy before such secure and clean power can make a real contribution, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Monday.
Oil shock puts spotlight back on renewable energy — but for how long?
MIDDLE EAST CRISIS SPURS OIL PRICES… WORRIES DEEPEN OVER WORLD OIL RESERVES… WIND AND SUN: THE ENERGIES OF THE FUTURE. Sound familiar? Those are headlines from 1974, yet they might just as well have come from newspapers today.
Northern Spanish region leads way on renewable energy
In just a decade, the northeastern Spanish region of Navarra has made a name for itself by leading Europe’s charge towards increased use of renewable energy.
Paris Peak Oil Conference Reveals Deepening Crisis (excerpt)
Research presented on May 26th and 27th at the French Institute for Petroleum (IFP) by a wide variety of experts from varying and often competitive perspectives disclosed that, in the year since the first conference of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO) supply, constraints have worsened and the realities of energy depletion are becoming more apparent.
A Different Era for the Alternative Energy Business
The most accessible deposits of fossil fuel are being rapidly depleted. At the same time, alternative energy sources are being viewed more and more as a worthwhile insurance policy against the risk of depending on the Middle East and other unstable regions for the bulk of the world’s oil and gas supply.
Biomass potential in Europe
WWF-UK press release announcing publication of report examining potential for biomass to generate energy.
We are finally running out of cheap gas — good
As gas prices loft into the stratosphere, likely never to come down, we can expect to hear much doomsaying about how this will end the world as we know it. Let’s hope so.
Power Outage
The U.S. is falling far behind its rivals in developing alternative energy
sources.
Douglas Westwood newsletter on peak oil
In our
view,
the recent high prices are just a practice run. The following is
drawn from
our recent research reports.
The promise of artificial photosynthesis
It is still unclear where most of our energy will come from in the longer-term future. A promising new contender is emerging: the harnessing of photosynthesis.
Lots of Hot Air About Hydrogen
Hydrogen, the most overhyped alternative fuel since methyl tertiary-butyl ether, is not a primary fuel, like oil, that we can drill for. It is bound up tightly in molecules of water, or hydrocarbons like natural gas. A great deal of energy must be used to unbind it.