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• Forget Renewables, We Need Cheap Oil - An Interview with Gail Tverberg

  Published 16 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  What does our world's energy future look like? Does renewable energy feature as much in the energy production mix as many hope it will? Will…

• Which Biofuels Hold the Most Promise for the Future - Interview with Jim Lane

  Published 10 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Following record droughts across the United States the benefits of the ethanol subsidy were once again hotly debated and biofuels in general found themselves generating…

• What Impact does Oil Have on the Syrian Civil War?

  Published 05 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  There is a popular belief in the Middle East that Washington's foreign policy, particularly as it relates to this precarious region, is largely driven by…

• Energy New Front in Economic Warfare

  Published 03 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Opposition leaders in Canada suggested a string of cyber security threats to domestic companies might be the work of Chinese hackers. Twice last week, the…

• Big Oil Funding U.S. Politics

  Published 01 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  U.S. Rep. John Boehner, speaker of the House of Representatives, received nearly twice as much financial support from donors tied to the energy sector than…

• Exxon and Rosneft Plan to Drill for Oil in Old Soviet Nuclear Dumping Ground

  Published 28 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  It has been well documented that oil majors from around the world are looking at oil exploration in the Arctic, where they believe that some…

• Mecca to Become First Solar City in Saudi Arabia

  Published 28 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Mecca, the birthplace of Muhammad, and Islam's holiest city, has plans to become the first city in Saudi Arabia to run completely on solar power.…

• US Navy Develops a Technique to Produce Jet Fuel from Sea Water

  Published 28 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington is working to develop a system that can produce jet fuel from seawater. Last year the US Naval…

• Broker Sent Oil Prices to Eight Month High in a Drunken Stupor

  Published 28 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  On June the 30th 2009 oil mysteriously jumped by more than $1.50 a barrel during the night, to reach its highest price in eight months,…

• Qatar: Rich and Dangerous

  Published 25 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  The first concern of the Emir of Qatar is the prosperity and security of the tiny kingdom. To achieve that, he knows no limits. Stuck…

• Japan Steps Away from Nuclear Power

  Published 24 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  As Japan and France move away from nuclear energy, is it the endgame for nuclear proponents? As the world slouches into the 21st century, one…

• Can Syria's Rebels Overthrow Assad? An Interview with Jellyfish Operations

  Published 18 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  As rebels attempt to regroup in advance of a new strategy to overpower Assad, and Western powers try to start from scratch with a new…

• Libya - Doomed from Day One

  Published 16 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  People often ask me why the West doesn't attempt a Libya-style intervention in Syria. After all, things are going so well in Libya. Oil production…

• Afghanistan's Natural Resources Could Spark Civil War

  Published 14 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  It is estimated that Afghanistan contains reserves of natural resources, such as oil, gold, iron ore, copper, lithium, etc., which could be worth trillions of…

• Global Carbon Trading System on the Verge of Collapse

  Published 14 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is the only global carbon trading system which is designed to create funding to give poor countries access to new…

• MIT Develop Simple, Fast, Efficient Method of Cleaning Up Oil Spills

  Published 14 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have proposed a new oil spill clean-up technique which is set to be simple, fast, and energy…

• Will John Fredriksen's $11 Billion Gamble Pay Off?

  Published 14 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  John Fredriksen, the shipping magnate worth $13.2 billion is one of the most powerful, respected, and even feared men in the global oil and gas…

• EU Bites the Hand that Feeds It: Gazprom Will Bite Back

  Published 11 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Gazprom has Europe's natural gas market in a stranglehold and Europe is attempting to fight back, first with a raid last year on the Russian…

• Will the US Face Blackouts as Electricity Generation Suffers in Drought?

  Published 07 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Well, its official - the U.S. government has acknowledged that the U.S. is in the worst drought in over 50 years, since December 1956, when…

• Renewable Energy Sources Could be the Key to Reaching Through to Iran

  Published 04 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Why are we even talking about Iran's nuclear program when renewable energy offers a clear way out of this conundrum? If we can remove bad…