Biofuels - Mar 16

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Tue, 2010-03-16

-The Case Against Biofuels: Probing Ethanol’s Hidden Costs
-Big Oil Behind Yet Another Biofuels Research Paper
-Harrabin's Notes: Battle over biofuel strategy

Biofuels - Mar 9

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Tue, 2010-03-09

-Green fuels cause more harm than fossil fuels, according to report
-Chemists create biofuel from plant waste
-Seeking a More 'Poplar' Biofuel

Peak oil review - Mar 1

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Mon, 2010-03-01

A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-Looming electricity shortages
-China's macro control
-Quote of the week
-Briefs

Energy follows its bliss

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-02-24

The predicament of industrial society unfolds to a large extent from its mishandling of energy issues. Because of that, the laws of thermodynamics -- and no, to borrow a phrase, they're not merely suggestions -- have to be taken into account in any attempt to make sense of the economics of the approaching deindustrial age.

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Commentary: The Redundant Subsidy

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Mon, 2010-02-22

Even for staunch proponents of U.S. biofuel policy, it is hard to argue that the current subsidy on grain ethanol serves the purpose it was designed to serve. With ethanol mandates now in place in the form of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), there is a mechanism – with penalties for non-compliance - to ensure that gasoline blenders use the mandated amount of ethanol.

ODAC Newsletter - Feb 19

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-02-19

The mood amongst oil company executives meeting in London this week for the Petroleum Week conference was largely bullish, with global oil demand expected to recover this year as the world economy

Biofuels - Feb 18

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Thu, 2010-02-18

-Controversy mounts in EU over fall-out from biofuel
-British Airways to fly jets on green fuel made from London's rubbish by 2014
-BA’s biofuels plans mean a lot of garbage: the problem of “peak waste”

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Biofuels - Feb 15

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Mon, 2010-02-15

-America's Food-To-Fuel Problem
-EU biofuels significantly harming food production in developing countries
-Burn Up the Biosphere and Call It Renewable Energy

Peak oil review - Feb 15

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Mon, 2010-02-15

A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-China's Growth
-India
-Quote of the Week
-Briefs

Job Losses Push Need for Energy Bill

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-02-10

Millions of job losses are pushing the U.S. Senate to consider a Jobs and Energy bill, even though Cap and Trade appears to be on life support. What are Five Key Measures that must be in a new Bill to avoid being a "half-ass..d" effort? (term from Sen. Lindsey Graham descrbing limited climate bill)

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The Challenge of Algal Fuel: Economic Processing of the Entire Algal Biomass

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Tue, 2010-02-09

Micro-algae have considerable potential for the production of biofuel, but at present the process of producing fuel from algae would appear to be currently uneconomic. If fuel from micro-algae is to be economic the entire algal biomass should be utilised and anaerobic digestion could play an important part in the exploitation of algae to produce algal energy.

United States - Feb 8

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Mon, 2010-02-08

-What’s Missing from the New Clean Energy Agenda?
-Soaring cost of healthcare sets a record
-America Is Not Yet Lost
-Seven States of Energy Debt

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ODAC Newsletter - Feb 5

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-02-05

In a busy week for energy policy, UK energy watchdog Ofgem finally acknowledged what has been obvious for years: that liberalized markets cannot deliver energy security in the era of carbon reduction a

Energy strategies, or the lack thereof - Feb 4

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Thu, 2010-02-04

-How long before the lights go out?
-Peak Oil Theory: implications for Australia’s strategic outlook and the ADF
-The Iraqi Oil Conundrum
-A New Clean Economy — With Old Sources of Energy
-Business as Usual: Hooked on Foreign Oil

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Obama Eyes Biofuels, Clean Coal in New Climate Push

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-02-03
by Jeff Mason and Timothy Gardner

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama announced new measures
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with "clean coal" technology on
Wednesday in his latest move to keep climate change at the top of the
country's political agenda.