Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category

Will Oil Hit $300 A Barrel in 2010 Due To Mid-East Tensions?

There have been growing tensions between Iran and many other countries in the region. Although the media has been covering them, I do not think the media realizes the severity of these recent events.

Scientific American’s Path to Sustainability: Let’s Think about the Details

Scientific American presents “A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030″ in its November issue. In many ways, it sounds good. But let’s 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?

Current Energy Plans ‘Unsustainable,’ IEA Says in New Outlook

The International Energy Agency’s new World Energy Outlook details the challenge facing the world: Despite two years of recession, energy use is going to recover and grow dramatically over the next two decades. That’s especially true for electricity and for developing countries.

Reduce Carbon Emission – Feeding Frenzy

An article in today’s New York Times offers more detail on the manner in which Congressional climate legislation has fractured the energy industry into competing groups of haves and have-nots, based on how companies and sectors were treated under the Waxman-Markey bill and their hopes for receiving a better deal in the pending Kerry-Boxer bill in the Senate.

Energy Firms Find No Unity on Climate Bill

As the Senate prepares to tackle global warming, the nation’s energy producers, once united, are battling one another over policy decisions worth hundreds of billions of dollars in coming decades.

Cutting Emissions Through Natural Gas

A few weeks ago, BP reiterated that idea. Addressing a Financial Times’ energy conference, Lamar Mckay, president of BP Americas said, “Natural gas has the greatest potential to provide the largest carbon reductions at the lowest cost using technology that is available today.”

Obama orders feds to cut energy use, emissions

President Barack Obama on Monday ordered the federal government — the nation’s largest energy user — to cut its greenhouse gas emissions and to reduce its impact on the environment.

Harvesting Electricity From Moving Vehicles

Parasitic energy harvesting” might sound like it is part of a Sci-Fi plot where alien beings feed off of the energy emanating from human bodies, but it is actually a means of reclaiming wasted energy.

Electric Cars vs. Oil in Hawaii

Since the late 1990s, I’ve been convinced that in the long run, the majority of cars would be some form of electric vehicle (EV), whether in the form of hybrids, with power generated onboard from engines or fuel cells, or battery EVs tapping external sources of power.