Today's Energy News Summaries
A summary of recent energy industry news from a variety of sources.
Our energy supply: some basics
If a person were to listen to Energy Secretary Steven Chu or National Geographic, one might think that our energy problems are fairly minor and distant. We can easily add sufficiently renewable energy to substitute for fossil fuels in a fairly short time frame. But if one looks at the situation more closely, one discovers that the situation is quite different.
Read more [Energy Bulletin]
From counterculture to cyberculture: the life and times of Stewart Brand
Fred Turner's book looks at the influence Bucky Fuller had on a range of people, in particular Stewart Brand, who helped create first the hippie counterculture and the back to the land movement of the sixties and seventies, then later the cyberculture that grew up around the San Francisco bay area.
Read more [Energy Bulletin]
Cash for carbon capture projects
Two plans for capturing the carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power stations have shared tens of millions of pounds of government money to fund detailed design...
Read more [Financial Times Energy News]
Oil production predicted to peak in 2014
Predicting the end of oil has proven tricky and often controversial, but Kuwaiti scientists now say that global oil production will peak in 2014.
Read more [MSNBC Oil & Energy]
Broadwind Drops, Sees First Half Bottom
Wind-power company Broadwind plummets on expected first half bottoming and weak fourth-quarter numbers.
Read more [The Street - Energy News]
PetroVietnam Gas inks $1bn pipeline
PetroVietnam Gas has signed a $1bn business co-operation contract to build and operate a pipeline running from the gas fields off Vietnam's southern coast to the Mekong Delta
Read more [Financial Times Energy News]
Food & agriculture - Mar 12
-Grow your own' revolution receives major land boost
-Slow foodies are not cavemen
-What’s driving our favorite fruit into decline?
-A Backlash After San Francisco Labels Sewage Sludge "Organic"
-How Locavores Could Save the World
-Increasing Yields and Decreasing Fertilizer Waste on Subsistence Farms
-How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
-Greenhouse project promotes self-sufficiency
Read more [Energy Bulletin]
Why Wind is a Better Bet Than Solar
JPMorgan shifts its cleantech investing theme, souring on solar and catching the wind. We sit down with the JPMorgan's alternative energy analyst to drill down on its sudden, total eclipse of the sun.
Read more [The Street - Energy News]
Why Wind is a Better Bet Than Solar
JPMorgan shifts its cleantech investing theme, souring on solar and catching the wind. We sit down with the JPMorgan's alternative energy analyst to drill down on its sudden, total eclipse of the sun.
Read more [The Street - Energy News]
ODAC Newsletter - Mar 12
What do you do if you're an energy consultancy that finds itself on the wrong side of the peak oil argument just as much of the oil industry and the rest of the world embraces the idea? The solution devised by eternal optimists IHS CERA, hosting a conference in Houston this week, is to sidestep this embarrassing development by simply rebranding the problem: 'peak demand'.
Read more [Energy Bulletin]
Where the Commodities Are Heading
Gold, silver, oil and natural gas look as if they could move higher.
Read more [The Street - Energy News]
Renewables & efficiency - Mar 12
-EU to exceed 2020 green energy target: forecasts
-Quantum Physics Breakthrough: Scientists Find an Equation for Materials Innovation
-Solar PV has failed in Germany and it will fail in the UK
Read more [Energy Bulletin]
Health Is the Tipping Point to Identify and Eliminate GMOs
Are Americans willing to jeopardize their health with GMO foods? Probably not. And it might take only 15 million Americans or 5 percent of the U.S. population to establish a tipping point for change.
Read more [Energy Bulletin]
Gold Prices Sideways Amid M&A
Rising gold prices this year have been driving a wave of acquisition activities in the sector with at least three major deals being announced this week
Read more [The Street - Energy News]
Deep thought - Mar 12
-The Wrong Kind of Green
-Return of the natives
-A Lesson from the Great Depression
-Why Us, God?
Read more [Energy Bulletin]
Oil Moves Higher as Demand Seen Rising
Oil prices were higher Friday following a report from the International Energy Agency that said world oil demand would rise in 2010.
Read more [The Street - Energy News]
Vermont: Neighbors and Online Networks
When Michael Wood-Lewis and his wife, Valerie, moved from Washington, D.C., to the south end of Burlington, Vermont, in 1998, "we'd landed in what we thought was our dream neighborhood. It was walkable, near the lake, full of trees. But we were having trouble getting to know the neighbors.
Read more [Energy Bulletin]
Church in Our Times: Spirit and Security in the Face of Reality
We’ve been hearing for years that the mainline Protestant churches are on the wane in the United States, emptying out in an increasingly atomized society. And Catholicism has been clearly weakened by recent internal events. Is the Christian church only a force on the Right in the United States?
Read more [Energy Bulletin]
Oil Holds Above $82; Demand Seen Rising
Oil prices were holding above $82 a barrel following a report from the International Energy Agency that said world oil demand would rise in 2010.
Read more [The Street - Energy News]
Energy: A foot on the gas
Energy: Enthusiasm for shale deposits – part of a wider revival for a fuel that could cut carbon emissions and transform global politics – is tempered by risks to investors
Read more [Financial Times Energy News]
