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Renewables & efficiency - Nov 6

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-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

archived November 6, 2009
	

Nations & resources - Oct 16

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-India’s quest for uranium
-Putin’s China Visit Helps Russia Become Global Energy Supplier
-Iraq cuts foreign deals for major boost to oil output
-The U.S. military’s battle to wean itself off oil
-What’s yours is mine
-Big Oil Front Group Fights for Tar Sands
-Saudis Seek Payments for Any Drop in Oil Revenues

archived October 16, 2009
	

Renewables & efficiency - Oct 13

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Transforming Clean-Energy Industry Into a Local One
-National Grid plan for local waste-to-biogas plants
-Saving energy may generate billions, study says

archived October 13, 2009
	

Resources and anthropocentrism

Guy R. McPherson, Nature Bats Last

Evolution demands short-term thinking focused on individual survival. Most attempts to overcome our evolutionarily hardwired absorption with self are selected against. The Overman is dead, killed by a high-fat diet and unwillingness to exercise. Reflexively, we follow him into the grave.

archived October 12, 2009
	

Renewables and Efficiency - Oct 5

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Oil and Solar Do Mix
-Plugged-In Age Feeds a Hunger for Electricity
-Americans Are Still Buying Gas-Guzzlers, But Here Are 7 Signs That the Market for Green Transport Is Exploding
-Passive Solar Design Overview - Part 5: Distribution, Ventilation, and Cooling
-Google working on "smart" plug-in hybrid charging
-10p to create a solar power sector in UK
-Saving BIG on electricity costs: chest refrigerators

archived October 5, 2009
	

Jeremy Leggett Interview—Culture Problem in the Oil Industry?

Dave Bowden and Steve Andrews, ASPO-USA

What follows is four questions from an interview recently filmed in London by ASPO-USA’s Dave Bowden and Steve Andrews...“So I worry about peak oil. I worry about climate change. And I need no persuasion of the power of the alternatives to do something about both problems.”

archived October 5, 2009
	

San Antonio: New Economy Leader or Nuclear Guinea Pig?

Craig A. Severance, Energy Economy Online

San Antonio's new Mayor Julian Castro, in office just three months, has inherited a dilemma. The nation's 7th largest city is suffering from almost 8% unemployment. With limited resources, the Mayor and City Council are searching for ways to create local jobs. At the same time, the City, through its municipal utility City Public Service (CPS), is burning through hundreds of millions of dollars on just paperwork, to prepare to spend billions on a new nuclear power plant project some 200 miles away at Bay City, TX.

archived September 20, 2009
	

United States - Sept 11

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Efforts to turn empty lots to a glass half full
-Obama's Speech: The Doctor Is In
-Tom Friedman, our one-party democracy, and the clean energy jobs message
-Risk Pool

archived September 11, 2009
	

Renewables & efficiency - Sept 11

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-On burning wood, coppicing and pollarding
-Floating challenge for offshore wind turbine
-Renewable Fuel Pretenders
-Pumping Up the Grid: Key Step to Green Energy
-US and China to unveil joint plan to 'take over' cleantech market

archived September 11, 2009
	

Middle East and Peak Oil - Sept 10

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Debate about peak oil is misleading
-Saudi provides realistic outlook on energy future
-OAPEC to spend $133 bn on boosting refinery output
-Abu Dhabi to invest $10 bn on green projects
-UNDP Arab Human Development Report 2009

archived September 10, 2009
	

Enabling Wind, Sun To Be Our Main Power Supplies: Quest for Storage -- "Holy Grail" of New Energy Economy -- Nears Goal

Craig A. Severance, Energy Economy Online

For decades the "Holy Grail" of the New Energy Economy has been to find ways to store wind and solar energy. The answers are here, and they are much more plain and simple than we thought. Like Indiana Jones in his Last Crusade, we need to see the Grail that is right before our eyes. The means to enable solar and wind energy to serve as our primary energy supplies are at hand.

archived August 30, 2009
	

ODAC Newsletter - Aug 28

Staff, Oil Depletion Analysis Centre

A weekly update from a UK perspective.

archived August 28, 2009
	

Nations & resources - Aug 25

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Averting a perfect storm of shortages
-The Future of Food
-The Big Question: Should Africa be generating much of Europe's power?

archived August 25, 2009
	

Renewables & efficiency - Aug 24

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Plotting the path of renewable power lines
-On power without borders, transmission capacity, and lessons for TSOs
-Smartening Up the Grid

archived August 24, 2009
	

Solutions & sustainability - Aug 21

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Peak Oil and Tourism
-Let There Be Light!
-Bolivians look to ancient farming
-Ambitious Solar Project to Use Recycled City Wastewater
-Another bold move in Portland

archived August 21, 2009