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Published 29 February 2012 | viewed 1,979 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 2,952 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 4,733 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 2,061 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 2,838 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 2,974 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 1,870 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…
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Published 20 December 2011 | viewed 4,582 times
The ownership of the largest deposits of oil, notably in the former U.S.S.R., e.g. Siberia and Kazakhstan and the Caspian region generally, in addition to…
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Published 03 October 2011 | viewed 7,452 times
If they are not actually "commandments" they might as well be. The original set of 10 provided a simple set of rules for members of…
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Published 21 September 2011 | viewed 2,722 times
Britain's first public hydrogen filling-station has opened in Swindon. It will be run by BOC (British Oxygen Company) who are the nation's biggest supplier of…
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Published 13 September 2011 | viewed 1,801 times
The UK company AWE and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have joined-forces with the US-based National Ignition Facility (NIF) to help provide energy using Inertial Confinement…
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Published 08 September 2011 | viewed 2,244 times
In the light of the Chinese hegemony for its own energy projects, it is feared that restrictions in the global supply of rare earth elements…
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Published 11 July 2011 | viewed 2,174 times
The amount of energy available in the Earth system to be extracted by wind-turbines is limited, and if sufficient energy is removed the world climate…
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Published 07 July 2011 | viewed 1,787 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 03 June 2011 | viewed 2,956 times
Hydraulic Fracturing, known as "frac'ing" in the industry, has made another unwelcome appearance in the media, in which the process is termed "fracking", where it…
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Published 01 June 2011 | viewed 1,389 times
Not all biofuels are "green" according to where the crops from which they are derived are grown. The worst offenders are palm oils which may…
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Published 24 May 2011 | viewed 1,689 times
The UK Secretary for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Huhne, has committed to establish an "Oil Shock Response Plan" to cope with some of the…
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Published 12 May 2011 | viewed 2,119 times
A study has been undertaken by Duke University of methane levels in water from 68 private wells above the Marcellus and Utica shales in Pennsylvania…
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Published 02 May 2011 | viewed 2,919 times
According to a new computer model, liquid methane in contact with a partially hydrogen-terminated diamond surface at extremely high pressures and temperatures spontaneously forms longer…
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Published 28 April 2011 | viewed 3,150 times
Always ready to air the other side of an argument, I return to the matter of whether Rare Earth Elements (REEs) and their impending scarcity…
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