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Published 19 February 2013 | viewed 2,178 times
Decline in output from the world's oil fields is averaging 5% per year, with some speculation that we may have reached the global production limit…
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Published 10 February 2013 | viewed 1,295 times
I wrote the following in a previous posting but there are a number of points of issue, which I shall now address. In particular, the…
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Published 27 January 2013 | viewed 2,213 times
The prospect of exploration in space for minerals has been the substance of science fiction, but in the face of a rapid depletion of non-renewable…
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Published 24 January 2013 | viewed 7,588 times
Making choices about the kind of light bulbs we should be using, on the simple basis of energy consumption, and hence carbon emissions, may be…
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Published 01 January 2013 | viewed 5,849 times
It is found that high concentrations of salts, including those of radium and barium, are present in the flowback waters from late-end fracking operations, lending…
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Published 10 December 2012 | viewed 3,919 times
The title is a condensate of the latest rendition from Nigel Lawson, who served Margaret Thatcher’s government, both as Secretary of State for Energy and…
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Published 03 December 2012 | viewed 1,638 times
B.P. intends to use a desalination plant to reduce the salt content of seawater so that it can more effectively flush oil from the surfaces…
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Published 14 August 2012 | viewed 2,108 times
There has been a highly successful run at the Royal Court Theatre, in London, not of a play in the usual form, but of a…
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Published 13 August 2012 | viewed 2,614 times
Cheap light crude oil production has already peaked and the resource will be all but gone within a decade. It is a matter of ebullient…
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Published 30 July 2012 | viewed 10,337 times
Not only are supplies of oil and natural gas under imminent threat of failing to meet demand for them, but so is a whole range…
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Published 05 July 2012 | viewed 4,963 times
In an effort to reduce acid emissions from the aviation industry, preventing an annual number of between 1,000 and 4,000 deaths, it is planned to…
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Published 21 June 2012 | viewed 8,627 times
World rock phosphate production is set to peak by 2030. Since the material provides fertilizer for agriculture, the consequences are likely to be severe, and…
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Published 10 June 2012 | viewed 8,942 times
Feasible fusion power – the carrot before the donkey?When I was about 10, I recall hearing that nuclear fusion power would become a reality "in…
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Published 29 February 2012 | viewed 3,603 times
There is much written to the effect that thorium might prove a more viable nuclear fuel, and an energy industry based upon it, than the…
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Published 26 February 2012 | viewed 5,729 times
Norway holds a resource of 170,000 tonnes of thorium, which amounts to 15% of the world’s total of 1.2 million tonnes. There is far more…
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Published 19 February 2012 | viewed 12,946 times
The depletion of world rock phosphate reserves will restrict the amount of food that can be grown, a situation that can only be compounded by…
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Published 14 February 2012 | viewed 2,878 times
It is an illusion to think we can continue to use as much energy as we do now. No one can entirely rule-out that some…
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Published 01 February 2012 | viewed 5,882 times
A vast and untapped resource of fuel? A contributor to global climate change? A submarine hazard and potential trigger of tsunami's? A cause of catastrophic…
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Published 19 January 2012 | viewed 6,573 times
Though there is much mention of the promise of algal biofuels and word of their commercial development, it seems timely to view what precisely has…
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Published 12 January 2012 | viewed 3,010 times
Britain is the pioneer in offshore wind energy, with more turbines placed out at sea than by any other nation. However, constructing such offshore wind…
