Energy Policy

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• So where’s NALCOR?

  
  The Sir Robert Bond Papers — Authority: 437
  The 17th annual bilateral (U.S.-Canada) conference on energy issues is taking place in Boston this Thursday and Friday. The conference theme is North American Energy:  Forging Ahead in the Current Economic and Environmental Climate . Everyone who is anyone in energy issues on the northeast of the ...
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• What’s Up with the Senate?

  
  Climate Change — Authority: 418
  There’s been a lot of hoopla recently about the question of whether or not Barack Obama will go to Copenhagen.  He settled that yesterday by saying that he would go if he’s needed to finalize an agreement.  This story from Reuters quotes the President:  “If I am confident that all of the countries involved ...
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• UK & Europe - Nov 10

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 597
  -Europe Must Stop Fetishizing American Relationship -Britain rules out climate treaty at summit -Recession fuels UK shoplifting -10 new nuclear power stations named -Spains windfarms set new national record for electricity generation read more
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• VIDEO: Jumpstart Clean Energy with a National Institutes of Energy

  
  WattHead - Energy News and Commentary — Authority: 129
  Thanks to Senator Browns staff for providing this video of the September briefing on the Hill releasing a paper I co-authored with Avi Zevin and Josh Freed of Third Ways clean energy program, "Jumpstarting a Clean Energy Revolution with a National Institutes of Energy" (pdf) . Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio and ...
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• Everyone’s Selling More Cars - So What?

  
  China Hearsay — Authority: 429
  Quick rant. One big item in the news these days is the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and whether the developed world (e.g. the US) and the developing nations (e.g. China) can come to terms on curbing greenhouse gas emissions. From what I’ve heard so far, the prospects appear dim. Anyway, at ...
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• Guardian asserts conspiracy to hide the Peak

  
  Get Energy Smart! NOW!!! — Authority: 605
  The global economy’s life-blood (even if it has been on life support) truly doesn’t flow through the CAC 40 or Wall Street, but is pumped from the ground and into our chemical plants, manufacturing processes, and transportation. We should, as a global society, be working to “keep the grease in the ground” for ...
  19 hours ago

• The Peak of the Oil Age - The Uppsala World Energy Outlook

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 597
  A new study, accepted for publication in the journal Energy Policy , analyzes the oil production forecast done by the International Energy Agency (IEA) in 2008. It highlights several shortcomings as well as confirms other parts. It concludes: "our analysis points to a world oil supply in 2030 of 75 Mb/d, some 26 Mb/d ...
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• Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 597
  The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying. [excerpt] read more
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• Blowhards

  
  The Economist: Daily news and views — Authority: 702
  Better an offshore wind farm than an underwater Nantucket THE first time I read that rich people in Cape Cod were organising to block the Cape Wind offshore wind-farm project because it would spoil their view, I thought it was a joke. The appreciation of a beautiful and unspoiled ...
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• Power To Spare

  
  The Absurd Report — Authority: 537
  ...the government reports that we lead the world in energy reserves. From oil to gas to coal, we are sitting on prosperity. So why are we importing anything?
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• Gasoline Price Causing Big-Vehicle Sales

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 597
  The retail price of gasoline in the U.S. is extremely low, not just compared to the summer of 2008. Subsidies both direct and hidden create a true cost at least a few times higher than the visible price. The actual cost is paid largely through income taxes (such as for wars in the Middle East and domestic ...
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• Geologists Vote that Peak Oil is a Concern

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 597
  This years Petroleum Geology Conference in London included the following item on the agenda : Peak Oil: Advancing the topical debate over the timing of peak oil & gas... read more
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• Scientific Americans Path to Sustainability: Lets Think about the Details

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 597
  Scientific American presents "A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030" in its November issue. In many ways, it sounds good. But lets think about the details: What would the end result look like? Would it really be sustainable? What would the costs really be? Is there any way we could afford to do what is proposed? ...
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• Peak oil review - Nov 9

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 597
  A weekly review including: - Production and prices - Recovery or Speculation? - Climate Change - Peak Demand - Quote of the Week - Energy Stat of the Week - Briefs read more
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• Out of Pretoria, out of power

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 597
  The poor in the South African townships are feeling the brunt of it already, a growing electricity crisis that will squeeze already meagre household incomes, spur inflation, add to the costs of essential foods, and raise transport costs in a country whose mass transport systems are utterly inadequate. Already saddled ...
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• Bob Lyon Installs Cool Residential Small Wind Turbine

  
  Mendo Coast Current — Authority: 117
  Editor’s Note: They’ve got it going on!LISA BULE, St. Petersberg Times, November 7, 2009This is Bob Lyon’s version of a midlife crisis sports car.“This is the craziest thing I’ve done in my life,” the 47-year-old commercial painter joked Friday after a crane lowered a 19-foot, 1-ton wind turbine onto a ...
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• Kerry-Boxer Climate Bill Passes Senate Committee

  
  Energy Priorities — Authority: 420
  November 07, 2009 -- http://energypriorities.com/ -- Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer and nine other Democrats passed the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S. 1733) out of committee yesterday. It was an important step for the bill to eventually reach the floor, but ...
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• Renewables & efficiency - Nov 6

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 597
  -A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables -Farms going green to save and survive -Solar power from Sahara a step closer -Nearly 200 Organizations and Companies Urge Senate to Adopt Key Energy-Efficiency Provision in Climate Bill -Report Argues for a Decentralized System of Renewable Power Generation ...
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• Climate & environment - Nov 6

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 597
  -Coping With Climate Change: Which Societies Will Do Best? -GMs Money Trees -The Carnivore’s Dilemma -USDA Research: Does No-Till Really Capture More Carbon? -Why growing virgin vegetable oil to burn is crazy -Pachauri Still Sees a Chance for Success in Copenhagen Talks -The Inferno read more
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• Quotes of the day

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 137
  The United States economy shed 190,000 jobs in October, and the unemployment rate reached a 26-year high of 10.2 percent, up from 9.8 percent in September, the Department of Labor said Friday in its monthly economic appraisal.-- Javier Hernandez This [unemployment] figure is likely to get worse before it gets ...
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