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• Power To Spare

  
  The Absurd Report — Authority: 539
  ...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?
  11 hours ago

• Gasoline Price Causing Big-Vehicle Sales

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  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 ...
  12 hours ago

• Geologists Vote that Peak Oil is a Concern

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  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
  12 hours ago

• Scientific Americans Path to Sustainability: Lets Think about the Details

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  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? ...
  12 hours ago

• Peak oil review - Nov 9

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  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
  13 hours ago

• Out of Pretoria, out of power

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  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 ...
  1 day ago

• 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 ...
  2 days ago

• Kerry-Boxer Climate Bill Passes Senate Committee

  
  Energy Priorities — Authority: 418
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Renewables & efficiency - Nov 6

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  -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 ...
  3 days ago

• Climate & environment - Nov 6

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  -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
  3 days ago

• Quotes of the day

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 136
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• What "Lower Consumption" Means

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  As a high-school teacher, I wanted to give my thoroughly-industrial, suburban-NJ students a more detailed peek at their upcoming post-industrial future. I felt the need to challenge their prevailing mindsets regarding our resource-depletion predicament: the “shorter showers & change the light-bulbs” crowd, ...
  4 days ago

• Will there be enough corn? Ethanol disaster continues By: Timothy P. Carney

  
  The Absurd Report — Authority: 539
  Mark Twain:“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
  4 days ago

• Cap and Trade: A Tangled Web… A Project-Based Alternative – Part 4

  
  Green Thoughts — Authority: 106
  In the first two parts ( part 1 and part 2 ) of this post, I discussed cap and trade as well-intentioned but a fundamental misapplication of the permit trading policy framework.  I also went on to identify 11 basic elements of any climate policy regardless of instrument.  In the third part , I describe a ...
  4 days ago

• Cap and Trade: The Tangled Web… A More Effective Alternative – Part 3

  
  Green Thoughts — Authority: 106
  In Part 1 , I offered a critique of cap and trade in its existing implementations  and located key flaws which make it highly unlikely that it will achieve its emissions reduction goals, even if somehow it is strengthened.   In part 2 , I highlighted two problematic aspects of cap and trade and then went on to ...
  4 days ago

• Barcelona, Copenhagen, and climate change walkouts - Nov 4

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  -U.N. Signals Delay in Climate Change Treaty -Republicans walk out of Senate hearing on climate-change bill -African nations make a stand at UN climate talks -Senators opposed to the Clean Energy Jobs Act are ignoring the bill’s benefits to Americans -We only have months, not years, to save civilisation from climate ...
  5 days ago

• Nations & resources - Nov 4

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  -The heart of India is under attack -Shale gas blasts open world energy market -Shale gas numbers may not add up -It’s a dirty business — the new gold rush that is blackening Canada’s name read more
  5 days ago

• Who’s Coming To Hang Out With Obama In Our White House?

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 600
  You may recall that when Bush was president, it was like pulling teeth trying to find out just who had visited the White House . Let’s just say he dug in his heels a bit on releasing that information. Maybe it had something to do with Cheney’s “secret” Energy Meeting , who knows, but it was a battle. I am ...
  6 days ago

• Responding to Alex Steffen’s Critique of Transition at WorldChanging

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  I have been following with interest the discussions surrounding Alex Steffen’s piece at WorldChanging in which he critiques Transition. I am honoured that someone so widely respected as a writer on sustainability issues saw fit to engage in discussions around Transition, but, as a critique of Transition, it ...
  6 days ago

• The End Of Electricity

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  There seems to be a consensus that the depletion of fossil fuels will follow a fairly impressive slope. What may need to be looked at more closely, however, is not the "when" but the "what." Looking at the temporary shortages of the 1970s may give us the impression that the most serious consequence will be lineups at ...
  6 days ago

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