Energy / Energy-General

Jul 07, 2011 at 08:17 | Gail Tverberg

Will uranium supply be adequate for planned nuclear electricity? This question has seen sharply differing views. The purpose of this post is to give an update, showing where we are…

Jul 06, 2011 at 07:54 | Economywatch

Socio-economic problems have erupted in Yemen as the petrol crisis enters into its fifth month with little to no end in sight. The Yemeni oil industry, which is the country’s…

Jul 06, 2011 at 07:52 | Mark Nicholls

The outlook for climate change-related investments is brightening after a few years when “it’s been a pretty depressing place to work”, according to a leading analyst. “From where I sit,…

Jul 01, 2011 at 07:34 | Al Fin

For humans to enjoy a clean and abundant energy future, they will need to move to energy from nuclear reactions -- which means nuclear fission, for now. Thorium is the…

Jun 30, 2011 at 08:34 | Kurt Cobb

In late August 1859 the most severe solar storm ever witnessed began and lasted through the first few days of September. It produced vivid auroras in the night sky as…

Jun 30, 2011 at 08:14 | Andy Soos

Cook Inlet stretches 180 miles from the Gulf of Alaska to Anchorage in south-central Alaska. Cook Inlet branches into the Knik Arm and Turnagain Arm at its northern end, almost…

Jun 28, 2011 at 08:04 | John Daly

According to recent reports in the Venezuelan press, President Hugo Chávez is currently undergoing medical treatment in Cuba. Beyond that, little is certain. The right-wing Latino press of southern Florida…

Jun 28, 2011 at 07:44 | Kurt Cobb

World governments have collectively poured trillions of dollars of stimulative spending into the world economy since the crash of 2008. And, they've shoveled trillions more into failed financial institutions. In…

Jun 28, 2011 at 07:42 | EcoSeed

President Obama launched a national initiative which will leverage over $500 million in investments to fund emerging technologies that can increase the energy efficiency of industrial facilities and create manufacturing…

Jun 27, 2011 at 08:26 | Christopher Cundy

EU carbon prices have slumped 15% in one week, as a slew of bearish news took its toll on the markets. The benchmark EU allowance (EUA) contract for December 2011…

Jun 27, 2011 at 08:24 | Energy Digital

The United States has some of the highest recoverable natural gas reserves in the world thanks to the controversial hydraulic fracturing process that breaks shale rock formations to release the…

Jun 24, 2011 at 07:46 | John Daly

President Obama has declared that, a decade after Operation Enduring Freedom began, the first significant withdrawals of U.S. troops from that battered nation will begin, with 10,000 U.S. troops withdrawn…

Jun 24, 2011 at 07:39 | Robert Rapier

BP recently released their highly respected annual Statistical Review of World Energy for 2011. Most of the news stories on the report have focused on the exceptionally strong growth…

Jun 23, 2011 at 07:50 | John Daly

Many western analysts have described the post-Soviet tussle for Caspain and Central Asian energy reserves as the new “Great Game, except this time around, Russia is facing the U.S. rather…

Jun 22, 2011 at 08:06 | John Daly

China’s omnivorous energy requirements have been attracting increasing attention as of late, as Beijing attempts to secure any and all sources of power for its growing industrial base. Nowhere is…

Jun 22, 2011 at 07:55 | Gail Tverberg

It seems to me that most policymakers have missed some basic issues with respect to our energy problem. One of these is that world oil supply is very inelastic–that is,…

Jun 21, 2011 at 08:03 | Science Progress

We are in a “Sputnik moment,” the president said in his second official State of the Union address in January. Energy Secretary Steven Chu also likes to invoke this historical…

Jun 21, 2011 at 07:56 | Energy Digital

Russia and other producer nations are invited into the International Energy Agency in response to high oil prices and uncertain global energy security. The International Energy Agency (IEA) serves as…

Jun 21, 2011 at 07:53 | Al Fin

The Earth is floating in hydrocarbons, yet the easy oil is in the hands of dictators, kleptocrats, and corrupt national oil companies. Oil is not only used for fuels, it…

Jun 20, 2011 at 07:31 | Energy Digital

U.S. regulators express concern that diluted bitumen from Canadian oil sands may be corrosive to pipelines and risk should be assessed. The United States is benefiting greatly from the Canadian…