• Russia's Energy Minister: 'We Cannot Continue to Waste Valuable Natural Resources' In a SPIEGEL interview, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko discusses plans for joint ventures with German engineering multinational Siemens, secure shipments of natural resources to the West and...
• The limits of energy storage technology "The maximum theoretical potential of advanced lithium-ion batteries that haven't yet been demonstrated to work is still only about 6 percent of crude oil."Read more
• Obama’s Billions for Energy Fuel Stanford, MIT Research Dreams In the basement lab of Nitash Balsara, at the University of California, Berkeley, are the ingredients of a lighter, more-potent battery to power the cars of the future. To build it, he needs...
• A Prince and Four Peaks: Peak Oil, Gas, Coal and Uranium
(The Oil Drum) -- Today the second three-day world future energy summit began in Abu Dhabi. One of the biggest energy conference in the world that is being attended by key policy makers,...
• Energy in the real world
(Energy Bulletin) -- Solar and Wind are not renewable. The energy from solar and from wind is available but not renewable. An oak tree is renewable. A horse is renewable. They reproduce...
• Chavez says Russia to build nuclear reactor in Venezuela (RIA Novosti) - Russia will help Venezuela build its first nuclear reactor in the northwestern province of Zulia, President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday.
Chavez had announced on Friday that Venezuela...
• The Coming Electricity Crisis: U.S. to Experience Large Scale Electrical Blackouts Excerpt: Earlier this week, I attended a privately sponsored presentation on U.S. energy policy. The main speaker was a senior faculty member from Carnegie Mellon University. This guy has been...
• Weird Military Energy Ideas (Karbuz) -- In January 2007 I wrote on Alternative Fuel Fantasies for Military on this blog. Since then I saw several new ideas coming forward painted with pink hopes, like making using of unusued...
• Russia, EU start work on civilian nuclear power deal - Rosatom (RIA Novosti) - Russia and the European Union are working on an agreement on the civilian use of atomic energy, a deputy head of Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Friday.
"We are...
• Uranium supply sufficient for next century: Study Global uranium supply is sufficient for at least the next 100 years and countries going ahead with nuclear energy programme will have enough fuel for their robust demand and growth, says...
• The Seven Myths of Energy Independence Myth #1 Energy Independence Is Good On February 1, 2006, Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington, arrived at the White House in a state of agitation. The night before, in his...
• Rising global demand for oil provoking new energy crisis With oil prices approaching the symbolic threshold of $100 a barrel, the world is headed toward its third energy shock in a generation. But today's surge is fundamentally different from the previous...
• Our World Is Finite: The Implications of Resource Limitations
We all know the world is finite. The number of atoms is finite, and these atoms combine to form a finite number of molecules. The mix of molecules may change over time, but in total, the number of...
• More Stark Warnings: Biofuels Will Kill Two more stark warnings have come out about the dangers "biofuels" pose to the world food supply, in just one day this week. Yesterday, Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food,...
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