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Mother Earth News Latest 10 Articles (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
T. Boone Pickens is the very embodiment of the Texas oil tycoon. He's also, arguably, the world's leading advocate for wind energy.
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
From a 1962 edition of Life Magazine available on Google Books ... We were a bit late in picking up on this one, but it's really worth passing on anyway. So credit where credit is due: Grist had it first, then Read the full story on TreeHugger
Transition Indiana (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Peter Bane and I have been proud to contribute to the creation of the document Redefining Prosperity: Energy Descent and Community Resilience . Our mayor and city council really like it and it could also be adopted by the county. It will likely serve as a peak oil transition template for many other communities in Indiana and elsewhere. Please note that it is a 257 page document and may take a while...
Green Options (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
DOE’s new renewable energy Venture Capital unit ARPA-E has just funded an entirely new kind of liquid battery innovation from MIT professor Donald Sadoway, that works like an aluminum plant running in reverse; producing power instead of consuming it. Under the ARPA-E program at the DOE, the Obama administration has provided record-setting funding for advanced breakthroughs in renewable energy...
Alternative Energy HQ (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
For last several decades the world climate has been changing faster and faster. For last fifty years average temperature of surface in the world has increased more than on 0.7 degrees Celsius. This caused such phenomena as, for instance, decreasing of Arctic Ice` amounts on 2.7% every decade. In the end of 20th century, beginning of 21st, the highest temperatures from very beginning of the history...
Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Hey thanks for the Hat Tip! From FT Alphaville: EIA US oil inventory data released on Wednesday surprised many investors by reporting unexpectedly large draws in crude, distillates and gasoline stocks last week. While on the surface this came might have come across as bullish for the energy complex, one factor more than others probably accounted for the pickup in demand. Via Reuters: Tropical storm...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Climate change plan 'could ruin Australia' AUSTRALIA will go broke and become the laughing stock of the world if politicians ignore basic science on climate change, a leading global warming sceptic says. Adelaide University professor of mining geology, Ian Plimer, said he feared Australia would become an economic backwater if due diligence was not part of developing climate change policy. "My...
Domestic Fuel (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The world’s first jet fuel made from 100 percent renewable canola and soybean oil that has pushed a rocket to 20,000 feet has been picked as one of the top 100 innovations of the year. This press release from the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota and the U.S. Department [...]
The Archdruid Report (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
One of the points that I’ve tried to make repeatedly in these essays is the place of history as a guide to what works. It’s a point that deserves repetition. A good many worldsaving plans now in circulation, however new the rhetoric that surrounds them, simply rehash proposals that were tried in the past and failed repeatedly; trying them yet again may thus not be the best use of our limited...
The GREEN MARKET (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Despite the resistance of some legislators, the Obama administration has made considerable progress on the environmental front. Perhaps most importantly President Obama heeds the dire warnings of federal climate scientists. Recently the President issued a comprehensive executive order that directs federal agencies to establish absolute goals for carbon-cuts, to reduce petroleum use in the federal vehicle...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
[Even alarmist Revkin doesn't buy carbon offsets] - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com I don’t buy carbon offsets for my travel, although I do telecommute as much as possible... Senate debate on ETS gets underway | Australian Climate Madness We’re in such an odd situation here, with debate going on in Parliament, and parallel back-room negotiations going on outside. With chummy assurances going...
Obnoxio The Clown (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
So, we know that apart from waste disposal, nuclear energy is the way to go: low "carbon footprint", reliable, relatively cheap, yadda, yadda, yadda. Turns out there's this teensy-weensy problemette : Perhaps the most worrying problem is the misconception that uranium is plentiful. The world's nuclear plants today eat through some 65,000 tons of uranium each year. Of this, the mining industry...
Green Car Advisor (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Are you in the LA area with the desire and ability to spend Tuesday, December 1 becoming more enlightened about the automotive and energy industries? The first five people to send an e-mail to pr@edmunds.com noting the make and model of their vehicle and their age (or age range if preferred) will receive a free ticket to attend the Bloomberg Cars & Fuels Briefing - a day of business and information...
Fairer Globalization (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Today the U.S. Department of Energy released the following announcement , which details several U.S.-China energy initiatives very much consistent with the recommendations of our recent Carnegie Council working group . The announcement is below. Beijing, China - Today, President Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao announced a far-reaching package of measures to strengthen cooperation between the United...
Domestic Fuel (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Remember that old wives tale told to children that babies come from storks? Here is the addendum to the tale…and everything else comes from oil. When President Bush delivered his now famous quote, “We’re addicted to oil,” I don’t think he quite realized how prolific that was. He obviously meant in the form of gasoline/energy [...]
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aarkstore | 10/22/2009
The report focuses on China’s traditional, non-renewable energy sectors - coal, oil, and nuclear power, which together account for about 90% of China’s energy mix. It analyzes current technology levels, penetration of clean and efficient technologies specific to the three sectors, as well as potential opportunities for foreign companies. This report does not include the renewable energy sectors (e.g....
dave howells | 07/23/2009
I agree with almost all of what Steve Dube is saying about wind energy – there is no way under the sun that it will enable business-as-usual to continue into the distant future. Also, at the very least we need to take stock of what it stands to do to the destruction of our upland environments. However, I disagree with his view on nuclear power. I cannot see us getting nuclear power now, whether we
aarkstore | 07/16/2009
Summary “Top Ten Energy Trends in 2009” focuses on the key challenges and trends in the energy sector during 2009. The turbulences in the global financial arena, dramatic fluctuations in crude oil prices and the politico-environmental concerns about conventional energy use have set the stage for significant developments in the global energy sector. The major areas of focus include the impact of the...
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