What Went Wrong on Oil Platform?
• arcleinNew disclosures Wednesday revealed a complex cascade of deep-sea equipment failures and procedural problems in the oil rig explosion and massive spill that is still fouling the waters of the Gulf
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Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act Leaked Preview
• Huffington PostThis is a short summary of what to expect from the highly anticipated Kerry-Lieberman energy bill, which is called The American Power Act.
Lessons from the Gulf
Stephen LendmanGulf spill is potentially the greatest ever environmental disaster
Bakken Expected to Produce One Million bpd this Decade
• arclein(David Hobbs, Energy Strategist) "The potential production is far greater than anyone would have admitted to even a couple years ago. The rate at which innovation is changing the unit costs to bring it into the attractive oil prices - will ensure
Bladeless Wind Turbine
• arcleinWhat this efficiency translates to, according to a recent article at EcoGeek, are final costs of about $1.50/watt rated output, which is roughly 2/3 the cost of comparable bladed units. Further, “total operating costs over the lifetime of the unit” a
Inferno on the Gulf: Witnesses recount rig blast
• APOleander Benton was chatting with a friend in the laundry when the lights went out. The other woman had just gotten up to find a maintenance person when the deep-sea oil rig shook with an ear-shattering "BANG," followed by a long, loud "hisssss."
Gulf Economic and Environmental Disaster: 3 Months to Stop Leak
• CNBC.comBP faces the prospect of drilling a relief well to cut off the leaky oil well, which could take two to three months. A giant oil slick from the gush of oil threatens to create an environmental disaster for four Gulf Coast states.
Bubble of methane triggered rig blast
• APThe deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before exploding, according to i
Lawrenceville Plasma Hits 1 Mega Amp
• arcleinAfter six months of modifying the switches, LPP finally achieved the firing of all 12 switches within 25 ns of each other in four shots on April 26. At a charging voltage of 30 kV, we achieved our first pinch at over 1 mega-amp (MA). The fill pressur
Wind Turbine Advances
• arclein"A direct drive system eliminates all the gears," Buttefield explained. "Now you're reduced to only two bearings or maybe one bearing that supports a large diameter rotor...and that's it. So you have literally one moving part -- the rotor. So ju
Oil Starts To Wash Ashore Off Louisiana
• AP"We have teams that have confirmed oil on the beach, at the south end of the Chandeleur Islands, at Freemason Island," coastguard Connie Terrell said. "This is the first confirmation that Unified Command has received of oil on a shoreline," she added
Today on LewRockwell.com - May 4th 2010
• LewRockwell.comWhy Not Feel Sorry for the Oil Company? - Will China Crash Within a Year? - Big Government Leads to Civil Unrest - Want To Live To Be 100?
Cape Wind Project Approved
• arcleinThe $1 billion project will include 130 turbines off the coast of Cape Cod. It's expected to produce enough electricity to meet 75 percent of the demand on the Cape and the nearby islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.
2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill "Infographic": Why it may take months to stop
• nola.com/newsBP concedes that a relief well will eventually have to be drilled in order to successfully shut down the existing leaking well. The graphic below explains what's happening on the ocean floor, and how the relief well will work.
Indonesia Taps Volcano Power
• arcleinThe sprawling archipelago of 17,000 islands stretching from the Indian to the Pacific Oceans contains hundreds of volcanoes, estimated to hold around 40 percent of the world's geothermal energy potential.
Gulf drilling disaster ‘one of the most significant oil spills in US history’
• RawstoryThe Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster will develop into one of the worst spills in US history if the well is not sealed, the coast guard officer leading the response warned. British Petroleum, which leases the Deepwater Horizon platform, has been op
Fannie Mae owns patent on residential 'cap and trade' exchange
• washingtonexaminer.com/opinionThe patent, which Fannie Mae confirmed it still owns with Cantor Fitzgerald subsidiary CO2e.com, gives the mortgage giant a lock on the fledgling carbon trading market, thus also giving it a major financial stake in the success of cap-and-trade...
18 Months: The Imminent Shortfall of The Oil Supply?
• InformationClearingHouse.infoRest assured it does not come from a progressive Democrat. And vice versa. It was drawn by the United States Department of Energy, and the United States military's Joint Forces Command concurs with the overall picture.
Arizona's largest power company wants control over customer thermostats
• AZcentral.comDuring hot afternoons the following summer, or when there is a problem on the power grid such as a downed transmission line, APS will be able to turn up their thermostats remotely or run their air-conditioners in 20-minute intervals...
Solar Fuel
• Technology ReviewDesigning the perfect renewable fuel.
China Just Grew Its Oil Demand By 10x The Rate of Global Supply Growth
• Businessinsider.com/So just to put things in perspective, China grew its oil demand at over 8x the rate of global supply growth last month. Moreover, for the entire first quarter of 2010 Chinese oil demand grew even faster:
North African Solar Projects
• arcleinNorth Africa is taking a shine to solar power in a big way, with plants slated for Morocco and Tunisia as a German-led consortium pushes ahead with the world's most ambitious solar project in the Sahara Desert.
Peak Oil II Wakeup
• arcleinOn March 25, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) joined the officially worried, with a report in French newspaper Le Monde titled "Washington considers a decline of world oil production as of 2011."
US military warns oil output may dip causing massive shortages by 2015
• UK Guardian[and who do you think will get priority on the remaining oil?] The US military has warned that surplus oil production capacity could disappear within two years and there could be serious shortages by 2015 with significant political impact.
Climate Scam of the Week
• wendymcelroy.comAfter press reports, it was established during inspections that several solar power plants were generating current and feeding it into the net at night. To simulate a larger installation capacity, the operators connected diesel generators.
Magnetic Energy - To Heal The Planet (plus many other goodies)
• www.magneticenergy.org.uk“Magnetic Energy - A latent field of pulsing neutrons that is nearly inexhaustible...”
Energy Star rating given to gas-powered clock radio and 14 other bogus products
• CNSNews.comThe Environmental Protection Agency certified that a “gas-powered clock radio” was an energy-efficient product under the government’s Energy Star program, despite the fact that neither the clock nor its manufacturer ever existed.
25 dead in W.Va. mine blast, worst since 1984
• APA huge underground explosion blamed on methane gas killed 25 coal miners in the worst U.S. mining disaster in more than two decades. Crews bulldozed an access road Tuesday so they could drill 1,000 feet into the earth to try to find four others missi
Peak Oil Now Been Accepted
• arcleinYet official recognition of the peak oil threat remained muted, couched in warnings about "adequate investment" and blithe assertions that demand would soon peak, averting any supply shortage. All that seems to have changed in the last month. A su
Government and Gasoline - by Ron Paul
Powell GammillAs we head into the summer driving season and gasoline prices are again creeping up, the administration has announced plans to explore opening up more off-shore areas for exploration and drilling. On the one hand this can be lauded as a positive ste
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