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The Renewable Future

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Achim Steiner, Helen Clark, Kandeh K. Yumkella - May. 15 (Opinion) - Renewable energy triggers sharply polarized views. For some, it is a costly white elephant; for others, it is humanity’s savior, promising to emancipate us (and our environment) from the “folly” of fossil fuels. So a hardheaded, credible, and, above all, impartial analysis, which would provide a much-needed dose of pragmatism and realism to the debate, is long overdue.

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President Obama announces plans to expand domestic oil production

Sat, 14 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The New Orleans Times-Picayune - By Jonathan Tilove - May. 14 (News) - President Barack Obama Saturday announced plans to expand domestic oil production, including holding a lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico this year and two in 2012, and extending leases in the Gulf that were affected by the drilling moratorium in the wake of the BP oil spill to allow operators more time to meet heightened safety requirements.

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Tucking Carbon Into the Ground

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Matthew L. Wald - Mar. 31 (Special Report) - Carbon capture and sequestration has been a missing piece in eliminating greenhouse gases. A few projects are making headway.

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Unleash the Great American Energy Industry

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Real Clear Markets - By Larry Kudlow - Mar. 31 (Opinion) - If you buy into the energy speech President Obama delivered on Wednesday, it sure sounds like we're headed for drill, drill, drill. It would be a total reversal of policy. I guess $100-plus oil and near $4 gas at the pump -- along with a consumer economic-political revolt -- will do that to you.

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Obama Sets Goal of One-Third Cut in Oil Imports

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By John M. Broder - Mar. 30 (News) - With gasoline prices rising, oil supplies from the Middle East pinched by political upheaval and growing calls in Congress for expanded domestic oil and gas production, President Obama on Wednesday will set a goal of a one-third reduction in oil imports over the next decade, aides said Tuesday.

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EU to ban cars from cities by 2050

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Bruno Waterfield - Mar. 29 (News) - Cars will be banned from London and all other cities across Europe under a draconian EU masterplan to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent over the next 40 years.

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2010: The Year In Crazy, Pt. 1

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

This Modern World - By Tom Tomorrow - Dec. 21 (Cartoon) - An incomplete and subjective look at the year in crazy.

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Subsisting on Arsenic, a Microbe May Redefine Life

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Dennis Overbye - Dec. 02 (News Report) - Scientists said Thursday that they had trained a bacterium to eat and grow on a diet of arsenic, in place of phosphorus — one of six elements considered essential for life — opening up the possibility that organisms could exist elsewhere in the universe or even here on Earth using biochemical powers we have not yet dared to dream about.

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NASA Finds New Life

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Gizmodo - By Jesus Diaz - Dec. 02 (Breaking News) - Hours before their special news conference today, the cat is out of the bag: NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn't share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth. This changes everything.

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Global Warming "Undeniable," U.S. Government Report Says

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

National Geographic - By Christine Dell'Amore - Jul. 28 (Special Report) - An in-depth analysis of ten climate indicators all point to a marked warming over the past three decades, with the most recent decade being the hottest on record, according to the latest of the U.S. National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration's annual "State of the Climate" reports, which was released Wednesday.

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A hidden world, growing beyond control

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Dana Priest, William M. Arkin - Jul. 19 (Special Report) - The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.

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Lockheed Martin: Information Systems And Global Services | Crocodyl

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Crocodyl: Collaborative Research on Corporations - By Tim Shorrock, et. al. - Jul. 19 (Investigative Report) - [a] 2008 investigation, U.S. officials confirmed that 70 percent of the U.S. intelligence budget goes directly to private companies working under contract to the CIA, the NSA, and other agencies. With the U.S. intelligence budget estimated at $60 billion a year, the outsourced business of intelligence is a $45 billion annual industry. To help the public and media understand this new phenomenon, CorpWatch is today with Shorrock, the first journalist to blow the whistle on the privatization of U.S. intelligence, to create a groundbreaking database focusing on the dozens of corporations that provide classified intelligence services to the United States government.

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Lasting Menace

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:36:51 -0700

Scientific American - By David Biello - Jun. 20 (News) - More than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez foundered off the coast of Alaska, sea otters still dig up oil in their hunt for clams in Prince William Sound. Nearly 25 years after an oil storage tank ruptured near mangrove swamps and coral reefs of Bahia Las Minas in Panama, oil slicks still form in the water. And some 40 years after the fuel-oil barge Florida ran aground off Cape Cod, the muck beneath the marsh grasses makes the area smell like a gas station. Similar damage may be in store for the U.S. Gulf coast, given that millions of gallons of light sweet crude spewed from BP’s broken well 1,500 meters down and approximately 65 kilometers off the Louisiana coast.

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The Problem: BP Oil Gusher a Product of Abiotic Oil--Not Dinosaurs

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

beforeitsnews.com - By Grant Lawrence - Jun. 15 (Opinion) - It appears that BP hit a massive deep channel of abiotic oil. That means that the oil was not produced from decaying matter but from chemical processes deep within the earth. It has been known for years that there is abiotic oil. The notion that the earth had hit a peak in oil production was, in my view, fed by Big Oil and financial interests to justify the massive profits from price rigging and speculation. Peak oil was also used as an excuse to justify deep sea drilling and other risky ventures to get more oil.

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Peak Metals - What happens when we run out?

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

sbs.com.au - By Bill Code - Jun. 15 (News) - Put simply, the extraction of virgin ores from the earth's crust will peak - indeed, it already has for many. Although the theory is not without its detractors, there is no doubt that the metals that drive our society are finite resources - and extracting them from the earth has to end.

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Oil Spill May Spur Action on Energy, Probably Not on Climate

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By John M. Broder - Jun. 12 (News Report) - Images of gushing oil and dying pelicans in the Gulf of Mexico have stirred anger and agony in Washington. But are they enough to prod the Senate to act on long-delayed clean energy and climate change legislation? Energy, maybe. Climate, probably not.

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Punishing BP Is Harder Than Boycotting Stations

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Ron Lieber - Jun. 11 (News Report) - BP owns only a handful of the 11,000 stations that bear its brand and is trying to sell the few still on its books. So those who wish to inflict the maximum amount of pain on the company are instead putting much of the hurt on the family businesses that actually own the stations.

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Nuclear Energy Guide

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Council on Foreign Relations - Jun. 08 (Special Report) - Concerns over climate change and energy security have spurred countries to reevaluate their energy policies. After decades of decline, nuclear power is increasingly presented as an option to meet growing electricity demands. Global construction of new reactors is on the rise, with some observers predicting a renaissance for nuclear power. Still, there exists an array of obstacles to expansion.

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Europe Energized

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Steven Hill - Jun. 08 (Opinion) - The average European today emits half the carbon of an average American and uses far less electricity. It takes 40 percent more fuel for an American car to drive a mile than a European car. Europe overall has managed to reduce its ecological footprint to half that of the United States for the same standard of living. How has Europe managed this? Through smart, strategic government policy, working closely with the private sector, to advance incentives and regulations that encourage the necessary behavior from consumers, households and businesses. While the U.S. has resorted to ill-fated strategies to secure more oil — including recent calls for more offshore drilling — the European landscape has been slowly transformed. Picture windmills, tidal turbines and solar panels on rooftops dotting the European landscape, and vast solar arrays with tens of thousands of panels that have tracking technology to follow the sun.

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Energy Transitions Past and Future

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Oil Drum - By Cutler Cleveland - Jun. 07 (Opinion) - In the coming decades, world oil production will peak and then begin to decline, followed by natural gas and eventually coal production. There is considerable debate about when these peaks will occur because such information would greatly aid energy companies, policy makers, and the general public. But at another level, the timing of peak fossil fuel production doesn't really matter. A more fundamental issue is the magnitude and nature of the energy transition that will eventually occur.

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Stabilization Wedges

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Princeton University - Jun. 07 (Special Report) - To get on track to avoiding dramatic climate change, the world must avoid emitting about 200 billion tons of carbon, or eight 25 billion ton wedges, over the next 50 years. This is the heart of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative's (CMI) Stabilization Wedges concept, a simple framework for understanding both the carbon emissions cuts needed to avoid dramatic climate change and the tools already available to do so. Since the wedges concept is becoming a paradigm in the field of carbon mitigation, CMI has developed this website both as an educational resource and as an archive of resources for those who'd like to incorporate the wedges into their own presentations and workshops. Our graphics and other materials may be used freely for non-commercial purposes; we just ask that you credit the "Carbon Mitigation Initiative, Princeton University."

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Imagining the Worst in BP’s Future

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Andrew Ross Sorkin - Jun. 07 (Opinion) - With shares of BP plunging since the Deepwater Horizon accident, many are speculating about the company’s options.

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Which Horizon?

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Clusterf*ck Nation - By James Howard Kunstler - Jun. 07 (Opinion) - The obvious remedy for the oil-and-car problem would be to live in walkable towns and neighborhoods served by the kind of public transit that people are not ashamed to ride in. But it may be too late for that. We're going to be a much poorer society from now on. We squandered the financial resources for that transition on too many other things. We're stuck with our investments in houses and their commercial accessories, built where they were built, and no Jolly Green Giant is going to pick them up and move them closer together in an artful way that adds up to real towns. A reorganization of American life will occur, but now it will be on much less deliberate terms, a much messier and more destructive operation, a default to the smaller scale by extreme necessity, with a lot of losses along the way. The Deepwater Horizon incident only hastens the process.

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In gulf oil spill's long reach, ecological damage could last decades

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Joel Achenbach, David Brown - Jun. 06 (News Report) - Ecosystems can survive and eventually recover from very large oil spills, even ones that are Ixtoc-sized. In most spills, the volatile compounds evaporate. The sun breaks down others. Some compounds are dissolved in water. Microbes consume the simpler, "straight chain" hydrocarbons -- and the warmer it is, the more they eat. The gulf spill has climate in its favor. Scientists agree: Horrible as the spill may be, it's not going to turn the Gulf of Mexico into another Dead Sea.

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The dangerous new era of "extreme energy."

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Daniel Gross - Jun. 06 (Opinion) - We've entered an age in which the production of energy, especially from fossil fuels, demands ever-more-expensive environmental trade-offs. We've entered what Michael Klare, professor at Hampshire College, calls the era of "extreme energy."

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