You remember the Pickens Plan, right? T. Boone Pickens’ ill-fated attempt to change the face of the U.S. energy industry by building wind turbines across the midwest and using compressed natural gas to power a new generation of cars.
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Top 10 Energy Stories of 2009
31 Dec 2009 at 22:39
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Here are my choices for the Top 10 energy related stories of 2009. Previously I listed how I voted in Platt’s Top 10 poll, but my list is a bit different from theirs. I have a couple of stories here that they didn’t list, and I combined some topics. And don’t get too hung up on the relative rankings. You can make arguments that some stories should be higher than others, but I gave less consideration of whether 6 should be ahead of 7 (for example) than just making sure the important stories were listed.
Peak Oil Should Still Worry You: The Hot Air in New Natural Gas Estimates
In light of this, recently revised estimates of Natural Gas reserves in North America should be taken with a grain of salt even thought they have some people calling the United States the Saudi Arabia of natural Gas. These excited comparisons are based on new techniques that allow natural gas to be extracted directly from Shale formations. Geologists have always known that natural gas exists in shale formations. (You can crack a chunk of shale and hold a match up to it and momentarily get a flame.)
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.”
US seeks independence with natural gas
“We have to stop looking at the short term. Sure we can find enough fuel for the next two years, five years, 10 years, but what happens at that point when we haven’t built up our renewable or alternative energy technologies?” she asks.
Gas Exporters to Discuss Secretary General Choice at Doha Meet
Russia, Iran and Qatar, holders of more than half of the world’s natural gas reserves, will meet on June 30 at the Gas Exporting Countries Forum to discuss the gas market and the appointment of a secretary general, a Qatar Petroleum official said.
T. Boone Pickens: Break Our Foreign Oil Addiction With Natural Gas
But we are in the classic “chicken and egg” situation: Manufacturers don’t want to build natural gas vehicles because they aren’t certain there will be a market for them. Consumers (companies and individuals) can’t buy such vehicles because the manufacturers won’t build them.
ANALYSIS-Fears grow for US natural gas in Obama tax squeeze
Oil and gas executives and experts fear that President Barack Obama’s push for renewables could shrink U.S. output and drive drillers away from vast reserves of relatively clean-burning natural gas.
Obama’s budget proposal would remove tax breaks fo
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Economic Rebound
A few years ago, peak oil was relatively easy to understand. At some point in the future, and estimates varied as to exactly when, oil production was going to start declining due to a combination of geologic and geopolitical factors, prices were going to rise precipitously and a massive civilization-wrenching paradigm shift would start as the world transitioned from oil to other forms of energy.
