Underground natural gas storage fields in the American Gas Associations AGA East region have neared their capacity limits before each winter since 2005. Storage field utilization in the East has ranged between […]
China has emerged as a key player in both financing and building the hydroelectric power infrastructure in Southeast Asia. China invested more than $6.1 billion between 2006 and 2011 in financing 2,729 […]
Many readers will know about the claim that a frog plopped into boiling water will hop right back out if it can, while one put into cold water which is then slowly […]
Wind is China’s fastest growing renewable energy resource. In 2012, 13 gigawatts (GW) were added to the system, and incremental wind electricity production exceeded coal growth for the first time ever. In […]
We know the world economic pattern we have been used to in years past–world population grows, resource usage grows including energy resources, and debt increases. The economy grows fast enough that paying […]
In this post I will, amongst other things, present the results from my review of the Bakken portion of Leonardo Maugeri’s discussion paper “The Shale Oil Boom: A U.S. Phenomenon” Leonardo Maugeri […]
My major point when I gave my talk at the Fifth Biophysical Economics Conference at the University of Vermont was that our economy’s overall energy return on investment is already too low […]
When appliance standards are revised, the Department of Energy (DOE) looks at the estimated benefits of standards relative to the estimated costs and only sets standards that it finds are cost-effective to […]
At the big clean energy conferences that have been held in three continents over the last two months the major topic of conversation has been clear – battery storage – what it […]
Time was that I used to write, on Sundays usually, a Tech Talk over at The Oil Drum where I would try and explain some of the technical issues involved in oil […]
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