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Environmental Advocates Are Cooling on Obama
The NYT reports that environmentalists are slowly giving up on Obama as he inexplicably hands over vast swathes of taxpayer money to the moribiund nuclear power industry and professes belief in (non-existant) clean coal - Environmental Advocates...
Smarter Grids, Appliances, and Consumers
Lester Brown has a post on smart grids at TreeHugger - Smarter Grids, Appliances, and Consumers. More and more utilities are beginning to realize that building large power plants just to handle peak daily and seasonal demand is a very costly way of...
Mythological thinking, the de-industrialisation of the West and the New World Order
Australian climate change minister Penny Wong recently made a speech to a conference on "Coasts and Climate Change" (see Wong: Climate sceptics are all red herrings and quackery for the full text) where she made some remarks about climate skeptics...
Innovation ≠ technology: Why Bill Gates is wrong
David Roberts at Grist has a bone to pick with some of Bill Gates' recent pronouncements about clean energy (which are by and large still laudable in my opinion) - Innovation ≠ technology: Why Bill Gates is wrong. Gates has burst on to the...
New Nuclear Power Costs Too High ?
FuturePundit has a post on a recent report from Citibank (pdf) on the economics of nuclear power - New Nuclear Power Costs Too High?. A November 2009 report by Citibank about nuclear power costs and viability of new nuclear plants in the UK and...
Saudi Arabia preparing for oil demand to peak
AP reports that the Saudis are concerned about a peaking of demand (which may just be a roundabout way of saying peak oil) and are looking to diversify their economy - Saudi Arabia preparing for oil demand to peak. A top Saudi energy official...
Facebook's Energy Efficient Data Center
Fast Company has an article on Facebook's new 147,000 square foot, energy efficient data centre in Oregon - Facebook Buys Dedicated Data Center, Could Servers Be Far Behind? .Facebook is so mind-bogglingly vast--350 million users, 70% of them...
Another gas source for Australia - unconventional (shale) gas from the Cooper Basin ?
Santos recently raised their gas reserves (largely due to new coal seam gas exploration) by 42 per cent, saying "the reserves upgrade brings its total reserves to 1.44 billion barrels of oil equivalent at the end of 2009". They now say they have...
The Next Crisis: Prepare for Peak Oil
Peak oil seems to be slowly raising its profile kin the mainstream media again lately, with the Wall Street Journal providing a recent example - The Next Crisis: Prepare for Peak Oil. As Europe's leaders gather in Brussels today, they have only one...
Move Over OLEDs: Scientists Create Cheap, Fully Recyclable Lighting Material
TreeHugger has a post on using graphene for energy efficient lighting - Move Over OLEDs: Scientists Create Cheap, Fully Recyclable Lighting Material. Swedish and American researchers have just developed a fully recyclable lighting component with...
Branson warns that oil crunch is coming within five years
The Guardian reports that Richard Branson hasn't forgotten the trouble the last oil price spike caused his transport businesses and is warning about another shock - Branson warns that oil crunch is coming within five years. Sir Richard Branson and...
Eden Energy soars on deal with Indian Oil
The Australian has an (not entirely informative) article on the possible licencing of an Australian pyrolysis technology to Indian Oil - Eden Energy soars on deal with Indian Oil. SHARES in Perth-based tiddler Eden Energy rocketed more than 250 per...
