Doubts on green energy
RENEWABLE energy sources such as wind and solar energy will continue to meet only a tiny portion of world energy demand, despite their impressive growth.
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Asia switches slowly to green power
Rising oil prices and pollution are fueling interest in green power in Asia but experts see no prospect of a rapid switch from the region’s growing dependence on oil, coal and gas.
Hybrid Fiction
Even $50 a barrel can’t wean the world from oil. Only government can do that.
US Sets Ethanol Production Record
The U.S. ethanol industry set an all-time monthly production record in June of 222,000 barrels per day (b/d), according to recent information released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
The balance of power: energy in 2020
We can still have all the electricity we want in 2020, says Paul Brown. But we need to learn to love renewables
Nanotech: Up and Atom
A Nobel Prize-winning chemist says the impending world energy shortage requires several miracles of science that nanotechnology can help to deliver.
UK ‘green energy’ centre created
A new national marine renewable energy centre is to help lay the foundations for an industry based on wave and tidal movements.
Australian energy economics firm sees coal prices rising sharply
Sydney-based Energy Economics is forecasting sharp increases in the prices of thermal coal used for electricity generation and metallurgical coal when annual price negotiations are concluded for the new Japanese fiscal year.
UK: Energy prices to soar early next year
Millions of households face another rise in gas and electricity bills early next year in response to soaring wholesale energy costs.
Crunch makes fuel options mandatory
Neither President Bush nor his Democratic rival, John Kerry, has shown the vision demanded by the critical problem of the nation’s overdependence on depleted fossil fuels.
US: Renewable energy remains elusive
Jimmy Carter put solar heating panels on the White House during his first year in office to promote energy conservation. Ronald Reagan took them off and ushered in the era of market deregulation shortly after he was elected.
NZ: Expert warns nuclear power is on the cards
Nuclear power stations may be operating in New Zealand, a country known for its anti-nuke stance, as soon as 2015 if coal continues to be shunned as a fuel source.