• Russia heads for energy efficiency Related: U.S. Government Readies Biggest Ever Push for Energy Saving; World Oil Production Peaked in 2008(RT) -- Russia is launching a programme to halve the country’s energy consumption over...
• U.S. Government Readies Biggest Ever Push for Energy Saving Related: World Oil Production Peaked in 2008You're probably familiar with some of the federal government's incentives for home energy efficiency -- heftier tax credits for solar panels, solar water...
• Energy-saving bulbs will become law Related: Peak Everything: Eight Things We Are Running Out Of And Why; Peak everything (Richard Heinberg) While making energy-efficient improvements to the home may qualify homeowners for tax credits,...
• Putin warns against excluding Russia from energy decisions (RIA Novosti) - Attempts to exclude Russia from global energy decision making are counterproductive, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday in a landmark address to the lower house of...
• Consumers could subvert energy conservation Comment: Isn't this why the economy is being deliberately shut down? Who are they kidding? They are the ones destroying the consumer, and the purchasing power of the dollar. Why? Peak...
• UK plans efficiency retrofits for all homes Britain proposed on Thursday new long-term efficiency and other low-carbon re-fits to 7 million homes by 2020, the cost of which which energy companies would pay for and pass on to all consumers....
• 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...
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