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The Coming Boom in Oil Shale

Oct 18, 2010 at 08:45

The US is sitting on more reserves of oil-equivalent than is likely to be found in the entire Persian Gulf. Under the Obama regime that is all the US will…

Growing Competition for Natural Resources Leads to Daily Pricing for Alumina

Oct 18, 2010 at 08:42

We've all heard the lines about increasing global competition for natural resources. The world is not the same as it was ten or even five years ago. New sources of…

A Fuel cell that runs on Regular Diesel and Biodiesel

Oct 18, 2010 at 08:38

Using biodiesel as well as regular diesel in a fuel cell is for many an incredible idea. The Research Council of Norway’s RENERGI program Technical Director Dag Øvrebø is developing…

Russias Growing Anger over Afghanistans Growing Drug Output

Oct 18, 2010 at 08:32

Russian frustration is rising with NATO’s “incomprehensible passivity” in efforts to contain Afghanistan’s growing drugs output. It has reached a point where some politicians in Moscow are starting to call…

The Effects of Population Growth and Aging on Climate

Oct 18, 2010 at 08:29

Changes in population growth and composition, including aging and urbanization, could significantly affect global emissions of carbon dioxide over the next 40 years. The research, appearing in Proceedings of the…

The Gold Rush in Iraq

Oct 17, 2010 at 10:05

There is a Gold Rush Underway in Iraq, with major implications for the rest of us. The success of the recent oil auctions in Iraq is creating a windfall for…

Venezuela to Have Their First Nuclear Power Plant

Oct 17, 2010 at 10:03

Russia and Venezuela have signed an agreement for Russia to build Venezuela's first nuclear power plant. The agreement was signed during a visit by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez to Moscow…

Cash Floods Into Offshore Wind Projects

Oct 17, 2010 at 09:59

Investment in clean energy hit $37.9 billion in the third quarter, as a flood of cash into offshore wind infrastructure in the North Sea helped drive a record $32.8 billion…

Indonesia is On Fire

Oct 17, 2010 at 09:56

Who said quantitative easing wouldn’t work? The only problem is that you have to speak Bahasa, eat nasi goreng, and live South of the equator, to take full advantage of…

Not So Nice About Oil

Oct 17, 2010 at 09:53

Last week I gave a lecture in Paris at the Université de Paris (Dauphine), in which I did my usual best to explain to a group of energy economics students…

Uzbekistan "6+3" Afghanistan Proposal Deserves Washington’s Attention

Oct 15, 2010 at 13:14

On 14 October the Atlantic Council hosted an extraordinary event, a “Roundtable on Providing Security and Stability in Afghanistan: Uzbekistan’s View” as part of its Eurasia Discussion Series. Tashkent deployed…

Weekly Geopolitical Summary, 14 October 2010

Oct 15, 2010 at 10:35

In this week’s issue: •Head of Turkmengaz Fired and Replaced with Deputy•CYBERCOM to Go Operational This Month•Govt Takes over Hungarian Plant after Deadly Toxic Spill•French Transport and…

The Solar Boom in California

Oct 15, 2010 at 09:04

There is a gold rush of a different kind going on in California, the solar variety. There is a stampede by 49 alternative energy projects, including nine solar ones, to…

A Big Boost for the Palladium Market

Oct 15, 2010 at 09:01

Not to belabor my writings on palladium from earlier this week. But this chart tells a critical story. Open interest…

America’s Unhealthy Obsession With the Chinese Exchange Rate

Oct 15, 2010 at 08:56

The US obsession with the Chinese exchange rate is a classic example of blaming foreigners for domestic woes. And we’ve been here before. In the 1980s, the US government –…

US and Kyrgyzstan Wrangling Over Fuel Supply Offer for Access to Manas

Oct 15, 2010 at 08:43

As talks to shape Kyrgyzstan’s next government get underway, the United States has fashioned a compromise fuel-supply arrangement that US officials hope will ensure American and NATO access to the…

Google to Invest in Massive Offshore Wind Project

Oct 15, 2010 at 08:39

Google is to invest in a gigantic, $5 billion ‘backbone’ transmission project, which could connect up 6GW of offshore wind to the eastern US grid. If built, the Atlantic Wind…

Nuclear Power: More Cost Effective Than Wind Energy

Oct 14, 2010 at 08:36

If you’re a large electrical user and concerned about just what all the alternative power generation ideas will do to your stockholders, management and labor interests, knowing just what the…

Tapping the Oceans Mineral Wealth With Deep Sea Mining

Oct 14, 2010 at 08:28

No one knows how many hydrothermal vent sites are in the oceans, but there is a best guess. Amazingly, when scientists who have studied different parts of the ridge system…

Algae Fuels Coming Under Pressure

Oct 14, 2010 at 08:23

The conventional route to biodiesel consists of extracting oil from plants and converting it to the methyl esters of fatty acids that are present in the lipid-components, known as triglycerides.…

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