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China To Connect Its High Speed Rail All The Way To Europe
Inhabitat has a post on an extremely ambitious Chinese plan to build high speed rail links to Europe - China To Connect Its High Speed Rail All The Way To Europe. Remember the time when the US used to have enough ambition (beyond invading foreign...
India Said to Propose Sovereign Fund for Oil Assets
Bloomberg reports that India is looking to set up a sovereign wealth fund to support acquisitions by state owned energy companies - India Said to Propose Sovereign Fund for Oil Assets. India, with $254 billion of foreign-exchange reserves, may...
From Counterculture To Cyberculture: The Life And Times Of Stewart Brand
This post was prompted by my reading Fred Turner's book "From Counterculture To Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism", which looks at the influence Bucky Fuller had on a range of people, in...
Improving The Performance Of Solar Thermal Power
The US Department of Energy granted a US$1.37 billion loan guarantee to Brightsource Energy two weeks ago which could help clear the way for over 15 gigawatts of solar thermal power projects in California. Brightsource built a pilot plant in Israel...
Australia's Renewable Energy Future Repot Released
The Australian Academy of Science have released their report into Australia's Renewable Energy Future - Australia's Renewable Energy Future (pdf). The impact upon the climate caused by our current energy use cannot be sustained. The economic costs...
Shell, PetroChina and Arrow: the next resource grab
The FT has an article on a joint Shell / Chinese takeover bid for Queensland CSG producer Arrow Energy (I was pleased to see they included a link to my old coal seam gas post - I haven't seen many incoming links from the mainstream media lately -...
Even Shell’s CEO Expects Electric Cars to Dominate
Gas 2.0 has a post on a speech by Shell CEO Peter Voser on the electric car market (I think he's being overly optimistic that a significant proportion of cars will still be running on petrol in 2050) - Even Shell’s CEO Expects Electric Cars to...
U.S. Could Generate 37 Million GWh of Wind Power Per Year
EcoGeek has a post on a new NREL study on the potential for wind power in the US - U.S. Could Generate 37 Million GWh of Wind Power Per Year. For those in the wind power business, or those considering jumping in, last week brought some big news. A...
IBM’s Chinese Smart Grid Ambitions
Earth2Tech has an article on IBM's involvement in Chinese smart grid initiatives - IBM’s Chinese Smart Grid Ambitions. When Forbes reported in November that IBM was launching a major utility and energy research lab in China and planned up to nine...
Shell Aims for ‘New Nigeria’ as Qatari GTL Plant Starts
Bloomberg reports that Shell's gas to liquids plant in Qatar has commenced operation - Shell Aims for ‘New Nigeria’ as Qatari Plant Starts. Royal Dutch Shell Plc spent $19 billion to build the world’s largest gas-to-liquids project, triple the...
10 Companies Reinventing Our Energy Infrastructure
Wired has a look at some of the companies searching for solutions to peak oil and global warming - 10 Companies Reinventing Our Energy Infrastructure - featuring cellulosic ethanol company Agrivida, high altitude wind power company Makani,...
Australia's oil reserves 'dwindling'
The SMH has a report on Australia's increasing dependence on imported oil, following the release of a report into Australia's energy resources by Geoscience Australia and ABARE (the Australian Energy Resource Assessment) - Australia's oil reserves...
