Archive for the ‘Peak-Oil’ Category
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
T. Boone Pickens, the proverbial man with a plan, says Obama made the right call by choosing Rahm Emanuel to be his chief of staff.Congressman Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) is a "BIG supporter" of shifting America's energy economy from oil to natural gas. Emanuel has apparently met with Boone on at ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
The Problem:
"Four-fifths of the growth in energy production through 1990 is expected to come from Siberia. In the European part of the USSR, the cost of producing coal is extremely high and reserves will continue to be concentrated in the European part of the USSR and in the Urals, the ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Energy efficiency has enormous promise for most developing economies. The investment yields in energy efficiency over the next two decades will generally be several times higher in the developing world, according to a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute.
Developing countries could invest $90 billion annually over the next 12 ...
Posted in CCS, Carbon, China, Climate-Change, India, Industry-News, Lifecycles, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Renewable Fuels, Research, Sustainability, Water, law | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Under the ongoing global financial crisis, a lack of available credit is causing projects to be delayed or terminated, but the clean energy sector is continuing to attract substantial amounts of investment capital. Ernst & Young noted in early October that the global "clean technology" market is expected to garner ...
Posted in Climate-Change, Concentrated-Solar, Eco-Efficiency, Electricity, Finance, Industry-News, Nanotechnology, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Photovoltaics, Private Equity, Silicon Valley, Solar-Energy, Solar-Thermal, Start-ups, Sustainability, Venture Capital, green-technology | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
New York plans to fast-track the approval process for a huge influx of natural gas wells that could bring the state more than $1 billion in annual revenue. The trouble is the wells could put the state's water supplies at risk of contamination.
The surge in energy prices earlier this year ...
Posted in Bioremediation, Industry-News, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research, Water, law, materials | No Comments »
Monday, October 20th, 2008
Nearly 30 million people rode Amtrak trains in the past year, the highest number of passengers to take Amtrak trains in a single year since the National Railroad Passenger Corporation began keeping records in 1971. The spike in oil prices earlier this year triggered an unprecedented rise in ...
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
There is only one thing more frightening than the looming prospect of a deep global recession. A boom.
Posted in HydroPower, Industry-News, Lifecycles, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Solar-Energy, Solar-Thermal, Sustainability, Venture Capital, materials | No Comments »
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
The average price of oil, as reflected by the spot price of Brent crude, rose from $54.42 per barrel in 2005 to $72.47 per barrel in 2007, or an increase of 33% in nominal terms. In real terms, the price of oil rose at a slightly more modest 25% rate ...
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
Carbon Capture & Sequestration technologies are considered a crucial component of any successful strategy to defeat climate change. Currently, the technology remains too expensive to deploy for a variety of reason, many of which are not technical but regulatory and commercial in nature. Furthermore, the additional energy required by a ...
Posted in Finance, Geoengineering, Hydrogen, Industry-News, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Start-ups, Sustainability, Venture Capital, green-technology, materials | No Comments »
