A little more on coal mining

I am reminded of the high price that nations have to pay, on occasion, for coal by the sad news of the death of thirty miners in a gas explo...

Peak Oil comes to Climate Change - but I'm coughing again

Saturdays are when I usually wander around the different sites that devote their time to aspects of the Climate Change Debate, looking to se...

Predicting and investing in the energy future

When Congress passes laws, and politicians put the full resolution of a problem into the “out years”, i.e. those in the future, there is a t...

Gentle Cough - Jevons Paradox and the Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor has a comment on the likelihood of people driving more as fuel efficiency gets better. It notes that in its m...

Gentle Cough, Saudi Arabian production

Over at The Oil Drum (TOD) Ace has just posted an update to his F orecast of World Oil Production and it is the usual well argued and docu...

Cost viability and algae

Robert Rapier recently drew attention to the demise of GreenFuel Technologies , the company founded on ideas from MIT and Harvard and supp...

The TWIP and Mikael Höök's thesis

Being more than usually “out of it” last week I missed the new TWIP, but hopefully can get back on schedule this week. It is actually a goo...

Nabucco, or is the Great Gas Game turning into a waltz?

It seems as though, whenever things are relatively quiet in the energy world, which they currently seem to be, then all one has to do is typ...

Geologic Time, Oil Formation and Secretary Chu

Last week ,as Climate Audit caught , the Seretary of Energy was asked about how oil and gas got into the Arctic Rocks. Now there is a littl...

Jatropha, algae and camelina oils

If you had not gathered this before, then you should know that I have been favorably impressed with the potential of algae as a future sourc...

Can politics be removed from biofuel generation?

The Administration has been praised for its move to rely more on science in the generation of policy, and on Tuesday a new group was announ...

Wind in the Rockies is expensive

Government policy can, once decided, be implemented by a combination of laws and financial incentives/disincentives among other means. Thus,...

Some short notes

The end of the month, and the enforced rest, was going to give me time to catch up on a couple of things, but it turns out that there is a g...

A quick look at gas and miles travelled

Having missed both This Week in Petroleum , and the monthly release of miles driven , I thought I would just pop these up. Partially because...