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• Incredible Geothermal Energy Potential in the United States

  Published 17 February 2011 | viewed 31,561 times

  USGS estimates 500,000 MWe of EGS geothermal resource potential lies beneath the western United States. This is approximately half of the current installed electric power…

• Why Big Wind Power Won’t Work

  Published 16 February 2011 | viewed 15,513 times

  Obama's regime and faux environmentalists around the globe have been gung ho over big wind power farms for years now. And every time anyone takes…

• Oil Production Rising Once Again in North America

  Published 14 February 2011 | viewed 9,325 times

  "Peak oil in North America is likely not to be peak" given $90 per barrel prices and new technology that makes it easier to recover…

• India Aims to Reduce Costs of Algal Oils by Factor of 25!

  Published 10 February 2011 | viewed 12,478 times

  India's Institute of Chemical Technology is aiming to reduce the cost of producing oils from algae from Rs 500 per litre to roughly Rs20 per…

• North America’s Bounty of Unconventional Hydrocarbons

  Published 04 February 2011 | viewed 7,033 times

  North America contains a huge portion of global hydrocarbons, when unconventionals are taken into account. As the price of oil creeps ever higher over time,…

• Is Peak Oil Slipping Backwards to the Year 2060 and Beyond?

  Published 02 February 2011 | viewed 18,882 times

  “The estimates for how much oil there is in the world continue to increase,” according to William M Colton, Exxon Mobil’s vice president for corporate…

• Extreme Offshore: The Hunt for Hard to Find Crude

  Published 27 January 2011 | viewed 11,733 times

  Brazil's quest for extreme oil may cost as much as US$ 1 trillion. That is a lot of money to invest in a such a…

• An In Depth Look at Coal

  Published 26 January 2011 | viewed 9,872 times

  The energy we get from coal today comes from the energy that plants absorbed from the sun millions of years ago. All living plants store…

• Corruption, Incompetence and Bureaucracy Holding Back Russian Oil Production

  Published 24 January 2011 | viewed 8,492 times

  While Russia is rich in oil and gas resources, the Russian government in 2008 had to introduce a US$4.2 billion tax cut at mid-year to…

• How Many "Bakkens" Will Be Found?

  Published 20 January 2011 | viewed 5,908 times

  North Dakota's Bakken shale oil deposits were supposed to have only 4.3 billion barrels of proven reserves. But that number keeps rising -- as do…

• Big Biomass Boost for Drought-Prone Climates

  Published 20 January 2011 | viewed 9,333 times

  Mike Mickelbart, an assistant professor of horticulture; Mike Hasegawa, a professor of horticulture; and Chal Yul Yoo, a horticulture graduate student, found that a genetic…

• 2010 Crude Oil: 50 Billion Barrels Discovered, 30 Billion Barrels Used

  Published 18 January 2011 | viewed 8,563 times

  With the price of oil hovering above $70 a barrel for over a year -- and around $90 a barrel for several weeks -- oil…

• Venezuela’s Oil Industry Hurting Despite Huge Reserves

  Published 17 January 2011 | viewed 13,124 times

  Jorge Pinon, an energy expert at Florida International University in Miami, said that Venezuela's state oil company has suffered from a lack of adequate technology…

• Oil Shale Mining and Research Picking Up Steam

  Published 15 January 2011 | viewed 9,784 times

  Estonia's largest oil shale mining company, Eesti Energia, reported the largest oil shale production figures in 18 years for 2010 - 17 million tons, up…

• Biofuels Production and Magic Bullet Thinking

  Published 14 January 2011 | viewed 5,815 times

  Using marginal lands not suitable for food crops, 50% of the world's liquid fuels can be produced, according to U. of Illinois scientists. Published in…

• Creating Jet Fuel from Biomass Waste

  Published 13 January 2011 | viewed 12,948 times

  First British Airways, and now Qantas are teaming with the Solena Group to build commercial plasma gasification and Fischer-Tropsch plants to create synthetic jet fuel…

• The Big Winners in the Climate Change Money Game

  Published 12 January 2011 | viewed 21,267 times

  The amount of money being spent on climate change research this year is astounding. I urge you to read the document yourself. Here is the…

• The Dangerous Bubble in Commodity and Oil Prices

  Published 07 January 2011 | viewed 9,649 times

  Right now, the printing of trillions of dollars by the Federal Reserve is creating another financial bubble. It is supported only by deficit spending, borrowing,…

• Turning Old Carpets Into Oil: Garbage to Energy

  Published 06 January 2011 | viewed 5,169 times

  Four billion pounds of carpet enter waste streams in the U.S. each year, says CEO Ron Simonetti. Five pounds of oil go into a single…

• High Oil Prices Will Lead to an Oil Exploration Boom in 2011

  Published 05 January 2011 | viewed 7,623 times

  Oil is like any other commodity: if price go up, people will produce more of it to sell. Despite the bleatings of peak oil sheep,…