Energy Bulletin - Natural gas
The Way is Shut
When I first approached the topic of societal energy in 2004, I became aware for the first time that our energy future was not in the bag, and proceeded to explore alternative after alternative to judge the viability and potential pitfalls of various options. I have retraced my steps in Do the Math posts, exposing the scales at which different energy sources might contribute, and the practical complexities involved. My spooky campfire version of the story, a la Tolkien: The Way is Shut.
Water - Feb 20
-Humanity’s Growing Impact on the World’s Freshwater
-Uncharted waters: Probing aquifers to head off war
-Drought summit: Why not pipe the water from north to south?
-Jordan's Green Fairytale- 'Once Upon a Water' Campaign
-Thailand's economy shrinks 9% after flood disruptions
-Food security v energy security: land use conflict and the law
Peak oil review - Feb 20
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The Iranian confrontation
-The Greek bailout
-Quote of the week
-Briefs
World energy consumption - beyond 500 exajoules
Today's post goes into the global consumption of energy and provides a dataset in Excel for researchers on global primary energy consumption from 1830 to 2010. We are now burning 10 times as much energy as a century ago to provide the goods and services we consume. Energy consumption is still increasing rapidly
thedailygreen.com
Energy and Capital - Renewables and Alternative Energy
Green Car Congress
- CoolPlanet BioFuels claims conversion yield of 4K gallons gasoline per acre biomass
- Renault introducing two new Energy range engines: Energy dCI 90 and 75
- Toyota future B-segment hybrid concept to produce 50% less CO2 than average supermini
- Novozymes introduces its latest enzyme technology for cellulosic biofuels; performs 1.5x better than predecessor
- NAATBatt Coalition recommends deployment of up to 300 GWh of distributed energy storage systems by 2022
Clusterfuck Nation
The Crash Course
- Daily Digest 2/22 - Unemployment Payouts Drop, Greek Bailout Vote Uncertain, Americans Driving Old Cars Longer Than Ever
- Dangerous Ideas
- Understanding Emergencies: Every Day Carry & Survival Equipement
- Daily Digest 2/21 - Big Government Is Coming To An End, Icelandic Anger Brings Debt Forgiveness, Aviation Biofuel's Future
- Daily Digest 2/20 - Roll On The Barrels, The Ethyl-Poisoned Earth, Iran Halts Export To Britain And France
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis
- Liquidity Floodgate Set to Backfire; Transmission Broken; Shutting Down the Liquidity Spigot
- Eurozone PMI "Worse Than Expected" and Back in Contraction; Expect German-Periphery Divergence to Resolve to the Downside for Germany
- Greece Needs New Constitutional Provision Imposed by the Troika; Slight Problem, Constitutionally It Can't Do it
- Hillary Clinton's New Role as Secretary of Job Creation
- 9 Day Race to Ecstasy; Only Way Greece Can Win Is To Lose