As environmentalists have pushed for greater investment in wind and solar energy, critics have insisted that renewable sources of power could never provide more than a fraction of world energy demand. Evidence […]
Efficiency Drove U.S. Emissions Decline, Not Natural Gas, Study Says
Conventional wisdom says switching to natural gas is why CO2 fell last year, but a recent analysis found a different explanation. By Maria Gallucci Aggressive energy efficiency efforts by households, companies and […]
Report: Utilities Missing Opportunity on Combined Heat and Power
Combined heat and power, an energy-saving technique for generating both heat and power from a single fuel source, is not yet as widespread as it could be in the U.S. And according […]
Will the Bakken “Red Queen” Have to Run Faster?
This post is an update and continued expansion to my previous posts about tight/shale oil in Bakken/Three Forks in North Dakota (ND): Is Shale Oil Production from Bakken Headed for a Run […]
Goldman Sachs says coal-export terminals are a bad investment
Goldman Sachs says the market for coal exports is slowing and related infrastructure projects, like those planned for the U.S. Northwest, “will struggle to earn a positive return.” via Grist http://grist.org/climate-energy/goldman-sachs-says-coal-export-terminals-are-a-bad-investment/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed
Note to Australia: Thermal coal is over : Renew Economy
via Note to Australia: Thermal coal is over : Renew Economy http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/note-to-australia-thermal-coal-is-over-65519?utm_source=feedly
How Fit Are Feed-In Tariff Policies?
via Renewable Energy World http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/07/how-fit-are-feed-in-tariff-policies?cmpid=rss
Battery storage: The numbers don’t add up – yet : Renew Economy
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 […]
Tech Talk – The latest Canadian oil spill
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 […]
New wells proliferate across the Eagle Ford Shale
All of that oil field activity in South Texas is adding up to lots of new wells.In the last four quarters, operators have drilled 4,092 new wells in the Eagle Ford Shale, […]
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