Panel Shortage Snags Solar System Sellers
Southern Nevada has plenty of sunshine and solar power, but companies installing solar power systems are dealing with a shortage of photovoltaic panels.
Electricity
Amory Lovins Misleads with Numbers
A review of Amory Lovins, “More Profit with Less Carbon”. In short, Lovins throws a lot of numbers around, but far too many of the ones he provides are irrelevant, meaningless, or misleading. The road ahead is much more difficult than he portrays.
Other Energy Headlines – 19 September, 2005
Era of cheap oil is ending, says Aus. Deputy PM / Higher Crude Oil Prices Spark Interest In Palm Oil Biofuel / Post-Katrina Power crews diverted to restore pipeline
UK Farmers urged to grow fuel crops as energy prices rise
Farmers could help ease the fuel crisis, the government has said. …
Ms Beckett acknowledged the UK had a long way to go to build up its biofuel industry: “This country is coming from a very low base in terms of biofuel production. The question is how speedily we can move.”
Solar can’t do it all: Conservation needed to localize energy sources
A study for the city of Willits (California) reports that locally-based sustainable energy could replace their oil-based imports, but only if conservation cut area energy use by more than half.
UK Gas Resources are in a Precarious State
UK Gas resources are in a precarious state, with output falling faster than either the Department of Trade or the UK Offshore Operators Association had anticipated, according to a leading Scottish energy economist.
A fit of (oil) peak
‘IT’S THE END of the world as we know it, and we feel fine.’ Grist.org editors look on the bright side, and name a reform agenda.
Ashden Awards 2005 for local sustainable energy schemes
The Ashden Awards recognise that industrialised and developing countries alike urgently need to make more use of local sustainable energy to ensure a liveable future.
UK gas and electricity crisis looming
The UK could experience a shortfall in gas supplies this winter due to the rapidly declining extraction rate from North Sea indigenous reserves and the country’s inadequate gas infrastructure (based on a just-in-time delivery system from offshore fields).
Future global energy prosperity: the Terawatt Challenge
At some point, almost certainly
within this decade, we will peak in the
amount of oil that is produced worldwide… Innovations in nanotechnology and
other advances in materials science
would make it possible to transform our
vision of plentiful, low-cost energy into a
reality. [article by Nobel Prize winner]
Other Energy Headlines – 19 August, 2005
BTC Oil Enters Georgia / China to Build Offshore Wind Power Complex / Shortages Stifle a Boom Time for the Solar Industry / Zero-energy homes / Tar sand companies try balancing oil gains, environmental pains / The Onion on Alternative Fuels
Sustainability and Solutions Headlines – 19 August, 2005
Bhutan puts farms before markets / Confronting the World’s All-Consuming Passions / Big game ‘could roam US plains’ / Crop diversity is dying / Farming with the Wild / Big cities’ future is our future / 10th annual Solfest puts spotlight on solar energy