Ocean energy

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.

- California votes down offshore project
- How Can Obama Pay for Healthcare Reform? How about Linking it to a ‘Manhattan Project for Energy Efficiency’?
- Lessons learned from General Motors’ collapse
- Climate Change and the Future of Southern California: Peak Oil and Climate Change Scenarios
- Is the ocean Florida's untapped energy source?

A weekly review from a UK perspective

This content is no longer available. It was a pre-publication draft of a section of "Energy Limits to Growth," a report that will be published in expanded form by Post Carbon Institute and International Forum on globalization in May.

Climate change experts 'lose faith' in renewable technology
Solar's future doesn't look quite so sunny
Floating Offshore Wind Power
Indonesia: New energy scheme not a load of bull
Sweet Answer to a Fuel Problem

An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
- Production and Prices
- Iran
- Nigeria
- China
- In the Congress
- Energy Briefs

Our place in the sun (solar and Australia suburbs)
Futurists: solar power to rule in 20 years
The Power of the oceans
Pickens on wind
Investing in clean energy technology

Al Gore, Bill Joy see green economy powered by Silicon Valley

Prospectors claim stretches of ocean, hoping to harness wave energy
Geothermia revisited
US wind power installations to rise 63% in 07

David Blume's Alcohol Can Be A Gas book
LS9 promises 'renewable petroleum'

Poison plant could help to cure the planet
The ethanol effect

Energy from the restless sea / How Australia got hot for solar power / India is rapidly developing solar energy

Sierra Club sues Pentagon over wind-farm delays / CERA: another decade of rising upstream costs? /
Saudis not cutting oil output further - ambassador / Republican politician: A 100-mpg car? Let's start the race / Conference on ocean energy in Bremerhaven, Oct. 23-24 / World could face choice between food and fuel / Mexico's oil bonanza starts to dry up

Hey kids! It’s a DIY solar thermal panel! / SF mayor: Catch a wave to make power / UK homeowners get green light for 'eyesore' wind turbines / Large-scale, cheap solar electricity

The Earth has an enormous natural solar collector - the tropical oceans. Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is a technology that can extract useful work from solar energy stored in the sea. It may be one of our best hopes for the environmentally clean, sustainable solutions we need to solve our global energy and environmental problems.

Wind energy industries are growing, and as we look for alternative power sources, the growth potential is through the roof. Two industry watchers take a look at generating energy from wind and wave action and the potential to alter the energy landscape.

The technical and policy difficulties of harnessing ocean energy.