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| A Primer on Peak Oil Credit Writedowns I ran across three separate articles on peak oil at well-regarded financial news sites today: The Economist, The Financial Times and Le Figaro. I thought I’d give you a run down of what they were saying and what it means for the economy and investing. See all stories on this topic » |
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| Optimistic Visions of the World After the Oil Runs Out io9 But what are the optimistic scenarios for a post-peak oil future? We went looking, and here’s what we found. For starters, let’s get one thing out of the way. This article doesn’t include any science fiction stories where somebody discovers a … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Will IBM’s Battery 500 Project Disrupt The Automobile Industry? Daily Disruption By Duane Barnhart | @dailydisrupt | April 20th, 2012 During the last few decades, environmental impact of the petroleum-based transportation infrastructure, along with the peak oil, has led to renewed interest in an electric transportation … See all stories on this topic » |
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Optimistic Visions of the World After the Oil Runs Out
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Is Fukushima’s Doomsday Machine About to Blow?
News 2 new results for DANGER TO US NUCLEAR PLANTS Is Fukushima’s Doomsday Machine About to Blow?
OpEdNews
By Mike Whitney (about the author) Mounting troubles at Japan’s hobbled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant now pose a real threat to human survival. If the area in which Unit 4 is struck by another 7.0 magnitude earthquake, there’s a 70 percent …
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Eurasia Review
Mounting troubles at Japan’s hobbled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant now pose a real threat to human survival. If the area in which Unit 4 is struck by another 7.0 magnitude earthquake, there’s a 70 percent chance that “the entire fuel pool …
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China Installs the World’s Largest Battery
Oil Price Daily News Update
- Stung by the Keystone XL Debacle, Canada Looks Eastwards
- Make It So – Energy Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact
- Gazprom-Vietnam: All Hands on Deck in South China Sea
- Should we Limit Speculation in the Oil and Gas Markets?
- Why the West is Supporting an Anti-Western Solution in Syria
- A New Renewable Energy Source that Could Support Half a Billion People
- New Opinion Poll Shows 66% of Brits in Favour of Wind Energy
- China Installs the World’s Largest Battery
Stung by the Keystone XL Debacle, Canada Looks Eastwards
Posted: 20 Apr 2012 05:33 AM PDT
Given that the Keystone XL pipeline is apparently dead in the water at least until after the next presidential election, Canada is seeking new export markets in Asia for its booming oil and natural gas production. Few Americans realize it, but according to the U.S. Energy Administration, the United States total crude oil imports now average 9.033 million barrels per day (mbpd), with Canada sending 2.666 mbpd southwards to the U.S., making it America’s top source of oil imports. In 1988, Canada and the United States signed a free trade…Make It So – Energy Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact
Posted: 20 Apr 2012 05:30 AM PDT
It’s no secret that Gene Roddenberry’s venerable “Star Trek” metaseries has inspired the imagination of millions since it first debuted in 1966. Strange worlds, compelling characters, and more techno-babble than you could shake a stick at have always been hallmarks of the series. But Star Trek has also been noted on many occasions throughout the series for seemingly predicting (or perhaps inspiring) the progression of technology.While we’re certainly not cruising the galaxy in starships trying to pick up green women, a lot of Trek tech seems to…Gazprom-Vietnam: All Hands on Deck in South China Sea
Posted: 20 Apr 2012 05:28 AM PDT
A deal struck earlier this month between Russia’s state gas giant, Gazprom, and Vietnam’s state oil and gas group, PetroVietnam, has geopolitical underpinnings aimed at China’s prowess in the South China Sea. The 6 April Gazprom-PetroVietnam deal grants the Russian gas giant two licenses to explore the Moc Tinh and Hai Thach fields in the South China Sea off the Vietnamese continental shelf and gives Gazprom a 49% stake in the fields, which translates into some 55.6 billion of cubic meters of natural gas for Russia.While the fields…Should we Limit Speculation in the Oil and Gas Markets?
Posted: 20 Apr 2012 05:25 AM PDT
Let’s Play ‘Blame the Speculators’Most people would probably agree that speculation in the oil and gas markets is hurting American consumers. Consider the case of Aubrey McClendon. Mr. McClendon is the CEO of Chesapeake Energy, where he sells natural gas for a living. Natural gas prices have now been pushed down — by speculators — to below $2 per million BTU. This is a drop of more than 80% from 2008 prices. With these depressed prices, Mr. McClendon will have a hard time ever matching his $112 million of earnings…Why the West is Supporting an Anti-Western Solution in Syria
Posted: 20 Apr 2012 05:21 AM PDT
A Jihadist, Anti-Western Agenda is Being Forced on Syria The international community has been blindly following a jihadist-driven agenda for Syria; a solution the majority of Syrians reject, but which Turkey and Qatar have been driving. It begs the question: why are analysts in Washington — or Paris or London — not digging more deeply into what is really happening, given that the solution they have endorsed is so profoundly anti-Western? The key test of the Annan plan and ceasefire to help end the widespread violence in Syria came on…A New Renewable Energy Source that Could Support Half a Billion People
Posted: 20 Apr 2012 05:19 AM PDT
With ever increasing energy prices, and the knowledge that oil and natural gas will one day run out, scientists and engineers are constantly trying to discover new, renewable sources of energy. A recent article released in the Environmental Science and Technology journal describes a promising study by Ngai Yin Yip and Menachem Elimelech of the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University.Via a process known as pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO) they believe that enough electricity could be cleanly produced to support the…New Opinion Poll Shows 66% of Brits in Favour of Wind Energy
Posted: 20 Apr 2012 05:18 AM PDT
In direct response to National Opposition to Windfarms campaign, launched today, the wind trade body, RenewableUK released the results of a poll it commissioned to determine the public’s true feelings about wind power.Quite tellingly, when asked ‘To what extent are you in favour of, or opposed to, the use of wind power in the UK?’ 66 percent confirmed that they were in favour, whilst only 8 percent voted against. Maria McCaffery, CEO of RenewableUK, said that, “it’s clear that the majority of those surveyed are supportive…China Installs the World’s Largest Battery
Posted: 20 Apr 2012 05:16 AM PDT
China now has the world’s largest battery with a storage capacity of 36MWh to combat any intermittence produced by wind and solar power at an adjoining farm.Brain the size of a planet, battery the size of a building – both sound like figures of speech, but the second at least is solid reality. It’s up and running at a combined solar power and wind farm near you.Near you, that is, if you live in Zhangbei, in China’s Hebei province. It’s currently, by a distance, the biggest battery in the world. Or, strictly speaking, thousands of batteries…You are subscribed to email updates from OilPrice.com Daily News Update
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The economic impact of high oil prices
News 3 new results for PEAK-OIL Peak Oil Off: Great Game On
Forbes
Nobody wants to lose: Peak oil is dead, the Great Game is back. What’s particularly interesting about East Africa finds in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar, Ethiopia and more established fields in Uganda and Sudan, isn’t just the size of the …
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FT Alphaville (blog)
We’re not talking about head-for-the-hills type “peak oil”, however. From Friday’s Buttonwood column: The concept of peak oil—the idea that global crude production may be at, or close to, its limit—is far from universally accepted.
See all stories on this topic »The economic impact of high oil prices
The Economist
The concept of peak oil—the idea that global crude production may be at, or close to, its limit—is far from universally accepted. One leading asset manager talked recently of the world being “awash with energy” because of the exploitation of American …
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The Economist
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Deep-sea oil wells: Surface coatings could inhibit buildup of methane hydrates that can block deep-sea oil and gas wells
ScienceDaily: Oceanography News
Posted: 11 Apr 2012 10:22 AM PDT
During the massive oil spill from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon well in 2010, it seemed at first like there might be a quick fix: a containment dome lowered onto the broken pipe to capture the flow so it could be pumped to the surface and disposed of properly. But that attempt quickly failed, because the dome almost instantly became clogged with frozen methane hydrate. Now a newly developed surface coatings could inhibit buildup of methane hydrates that can block deep-sea oil and gas wells.You are subscribed to email updates from ScienceDaily: Oceanography News
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Weird Science: Rubber Chicken Flies into Solar Storm
Weird Science: Rubber Chicken Flies into Solar Storm
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NASA Science News noreply@nasascience.org12:43 PM (1 hour ago)to NASANASA Science News for April 19, 2012In a unusual twist on space science, students in California have launched a rubber chicken to the edge of space to study a solar storm.
FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/19apr_camilla/
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