Two Years Later, BP Spill Reminders Litter Gulf Coast
• http://www.npr.org, by Debbie ElliottIt's been two years since the Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 rig workers and unleashing the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
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Make It So - Energy Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact
• Oilprice.comStar Trek has been noted on many occasions throughout the series for seemingly predicting (or perhaps inspiring) the progression of technology.
When We Grow Up, We Will Fall in Love with Earth
• http://www.commondreams.org, by Robert C. KoehlerThe AP story on military maneuvers in the Arctic reads like the gleeful report of a mugging.
Obama Echoes Bush, Sets Plan for Polar Bear Extinction
• http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff“President Obama’s proposal for these magnificent and imperiled animals is a gift to Big Oil"
BP Spill Causing 'Alarming' Marine-Life Deformities in Gulf
• http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staffEyeless shrimp and other mutations due to BP chemicals
Environmental Groups: New Fracking Rules Fall Short
• http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staffEPA's rules on fracking still leave public health, communities at risk
Obama's Atomic Solyndra
• http://www.commondreams.org,by Harvey WassermanThe future of nuclear power now hangs on a single decision by President Obama---and us.
Fracking hell: UK government set to green light risky gas drilling?
• http://rt.comA controversial gas extraction method caused two earthquakes in the UK last year, a government panel of experts reported.
YPF oil: Spain threatens retaliation against Argentina
• http://www.bbc.co.ukSpain has threatened retaliation against Argentina over the forced nationalisation of oil firm YPF, raising the prospects of a trade war between the nations.
Tinted Windows that Generate Electricity
• http://www.technologyreview.com, By Kevin BullisA German company borrows the materials and manufacturing process of OLED displays to make a new kind of solar panel.
Behind the Wheel of Ford’s First Electric Vehicle
• http://www.wired.com, By Damon LavrincFord is at the onset of a massive push towards electrification. The Blue Oval estimates that between 10 and 25 percent of its products will be “electrified” by 2020, with a mix of traditional hybrids and plug-in versions joining a brace of new EVs.
Argentina Proposes to Nationalize Biggest Oil Company
• http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staffPresident sees 'the recovery of sovereignty' in take-back of natural resources from corporations
Solar Tower, a solution to climate change and energy consumption
• www.youtube.comA single 200MW Solar Tower power station will provide enough electricity to power around 400,000 households. The energy output will represent an annual saving of more than 1,960,000 tonnes of greenhouse CO2 gases from entering the environment
Does Fracking Cause Earthquakes?
• http://motherjones.com, By Alyssa BattistoniThere are plenty of reasons to worry about fracking—groundwater contamination, methane leaks, that flaming tap water thing. But can it really cause earthquakes?
U.S. Has A Natural Gas Problem: Too Much Of It
• http://www.npr.org, by John YdstieThere's a boom in natural gas production in the United States, a boom so big the market is having trouble absorbing it all.
VOLATILE OIL PRICES: The Geopolitics of Speculation: Oil-price makers and takers
• http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Prof. Ali KadriEvery market is a process of social and power relationships. In every market there are price makers and price takers.
Does Fracking Cause Earthquakes?
• http://motherjones.com, By Alyssa BattistoniThere are plenty of reasons to worry about fracking—groundwater contamination, methane leaks, that flaming tapwater thing.
Obama Administration Must Say No to Industry Loopholes in Natural Gas Fracking Standards
• http://www.commondreams.org, by Frances BeineckeEnergy companies have drilled more than 75,000 wells in the past five years, many of them on farmlands, near public schools, and in people’s backyards
Gas stations run dry in Juba as Sudan oil fight persists
• http://www.reuters.com, By Ulf LaessingMotorists in South Sudan queued for hours on Sunday to try to buy petrol as filling stations ran dry due to a shortage of dollars less than three months after the world's newest nation shut down oil production in a row with Sudan.
NASA Wants to Launch Floating Algae Farms
• http://www.technologyreview.com, By Kevin BullisA $10 million project aims to grow algae for biofuels inside plastic bags.
The U.S. Leads in Clean Energy Investments
• http://www.technologyreview.com,Kevin BullisBut does it really matter where clean energy is developed and deployed?
Is a Water War between India and Pakistan Imminent?
• Oilprice.comA rising new element of discord threatens to precipitate a new armed clash between southern Asia’s two nuclear powers – water.
Group Mobilizing Big Anti-Fracking 'Earthquake'
• http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff"If we stay silent, special interests will win; if we speak out together we have a chance."
Nuclear Power Is Expensive and Bad for the Environment …
• http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Washingtons BlogNuclear power is no longer an economically viable source of new energy in the United States, the freshly-retired CEO of Exelon, America’s largest producer of nuclear power [who also served on the president’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclea
Advanced Power Grid Research in Western USA
• arcleinTo achieve this level of decarbonization, policy changes are needed to cap or tax carbon emissions to provide an incentive to move toward low-carbon electricity sources, Kammen and the other study authors said.
Analysis: Troubled euro zone states most at risk from high oil
• http://www.reuters.com, By Philip BlenkinsopOil prices at record levels in euro terms are threatening to rock the euro zone's economy more than might be expected, with those countries least capable of riding out a shock being the worst hit.
Demise of Peak Oil Theory
• http://lewrockwell.com, by David DemingPeak Oil is the theory that the production history of petroleum follows a symmetrical bell-shaped curve.
Peru rebels kidnap gas workers
• http://www.aljazeera.comShining Path insurgents take as many as 30 workers hostage before releasing 23 of them.
Gasoline prices may have finally peaked for now
• http://www.latimes.com, By Ronald D. WhiteThe painful rise of gasoline prices across the U.S. may have finally reached its end, for now.
Gas Prices On Catalina Island Pass $7 Mark
• http://losangeles.cbslocal.comCatalina Island is known for many things… its picturesque scenery, seafood and hiking, to name a few. But what about high gas prices?
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