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Developing a Valid Picture of Fossil fuels and our Future

Apr 22, 2011 at 08:09

One of the problems in trying to project future demand and supply of oil and the other fossil fuels is that the decisions on their availability and use are often…

United States Budget Problems and the Oil Supply

Apr 21, 2011 at 09:18

We see endless fighting between the Democrats and Republicans about the budget, but no real explanation as to what the issues are. My view is that there is a structural…

Where to Now for Metals? A Look at Gold, Copper, Aluminum and Steel

Apr 21, 2011 at 09:11

We know that 2011 began with a rocky start – the Middle East uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya turned the status quo upside down, the sovereign debt of European…

A Different Idea on Where Hydrocarbons Come From

Apr 21, 2011 at 09:01

A research team including colleagues at UC Davis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Shell Projects & Technology is offering a new computational study published in the Proceedings of the…

Clean Energy Investments Slump in Q1

Apr 21, 2011 at 08:59

Global clean energy investment in the first three months of 2011 totalled $31.1 billion, a 34% slump on the previous quarter and down 10% on the corresponding period last year,…

Key Barriers Electric Cars Have to Overcome

Apr 21, 2011 at 08:57

Will electric cars ever become the common way to drive?  What is needed is an infrastructure that allows easy recharging of the vehicle (such as gasoline stations are for the…

Engineers Are Now Wearing the Poet's Mantle

Apr 20, 2011 at 19:50

F. Scott Fitzgerald supposedly told Ernest Hemingway, “The rich are different from you and me.” And Hemingway supposedly replied, “Yes, they have more money.” Engineers are different from the rest…

Gloves Are Off as Big Banks Disagree on Oil Price Outlook

Apr 20, 2011 at 08:35

Goldman Sachs surprised the market when the investment bank advised its clients on Monday, April 11 to liquidate the "CCCP basket" for a 25% profit.  The bear call was partly…

Colombia is Popping Up on My Radar

Apr 20, 2011 at 08:27

My current scenario for global equities has them selling off over the summer, then a rebounding led by emerging markets starting sometime in the fall. In that case, you…

Energy Breakthrough: One Step Closer to Extracting Hydrogen From Water

Apr 20, 2011 at 08:24

A research team at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland has announced they have come upon a new catalyst for electrolysis to split hydrogen out of water.…

Report from Libya: Oil Majors Were Ready to Walk Before Trouble Started

Apr 19, 2011 at 17:54

Over the weekend, I managed to catch up with a friend of mine who just escaped from Libya by the skin of his teeth. Sent there by an oil major…

A Possible Solution to Sudden Oil Price Spikes

Apr 19, 2011 at 08:24

One of my recent essays discussed the relationship between high oil prices and recession. Consumers who suddenly find themselves paying more for fuel are hit with the equivalent of…

The Nuclear Industry Took a Wrong Turn: Could Fukushima Have Been Prevented?

Apr 19, 2011 at 08:21

Nuclear researchers knew long ago that reactor designs now in wide use had already been bested in safety by another design. Why did the industry turn its back on that…

Differences in the Price of Oil: Brent-WTI Spread

Apr 19, 2011 at 07:51

The puzzling differential between the price of oil in different markets seems to be persisting. For most of the last decade, there was very little difference between the price of…

The End of QE2 is In the Market

Apr 18, 2011 at 19:57

No one has been more negative about the long term outlook for the Treasury bond markets than I. At the rate that we are piling on spending while chopping back…

Saudi Arabia Has Not Made up for the Drop in Libyan Oil Production

Apr 18, 2011 at 10:41

The OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report and IEA Oil Market Report both came out on Tuesday last week and allowed us to see how events in the Middle…

Can Asia Live Without Nuclear Power

Apr 18, 2011 at 10:36

Every time there is a spike in the cost of energy such as the ’73 crisis and the ’79/80 oil price spike — and then again in ‘07/08 — alternative…

The Global Prospects for Shale Gas

Apr 18, 2011 at 09:26

I thought it worthwhile spending a post looking at the global prospects for gas shale. I am indebted to Art Berman for first bringing some of the problems to…

UK Pension Funds Unhealthy Overweighting of Fossil Fuel Stocks

Apr 18, 2011 at 09:24

The overweighting of the UK stock market towards fossil fuel companies means that UK pension funds are at particular risk of any sudden reassessment of the viability of high-carbon energy…

Gasoline Prices and the Oil Supply Problem

Apr 15, 2011 at 09:09

I paid $50 to fill my tank at a gas station in Maine this morning, at a cost of almost $4 a gallon. When the Actress muttered some comment of…

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