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The IEA’s Energy Technology Perspectives 2008 calls for an “energy revolution” to meet rising world demand in the context of greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions constraints.Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director, IEA: “The world faces the daunting combination of surging energy demand, rising GHG emissions and tightening resources. A global energy technology revolution […]

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The IEA’s Energy Technology Perspectives 2008 calls for an “energy revolution” to meet rising world demand in the context of greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions constraints.
Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director, IEA: “The world faces the daunting combination of surging energy demand, rising GHG emissions and tightening resources. A global energy technology revolution […]

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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO) summit in Rome took on the relationship between AGROfuels expansion and rising food prices. They held a debate described as “fiery” and were extremely diplomatic about conclusions: “We call upon relevant inter-governmental organizations, including FAO, within their mandates and areas of […]

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In 1971, after killings at Kent State University during a Vietnam War protest, Neil Young wrote Ohio:
“Tin soldiers and Nixon’s comin’/We’re finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin’/Four dead in O-hi-o…”
Now he’s talking about a whole other kind of history. Young is financing (at upwards of $120,000) mechanic […]

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The ancient Greek deity Aeolus ruled the winds. Some modern Greeks have turned their backs on Aeolus in favor of aesthetic considerations. Rojas SA, on the other hand, is busily building modern monuments to Aeolus in the form of giant turbines that will power the Greek nation the way Aeolus […]

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A true-life instructional tale: Because of its huge copper industry, Chile is not as concerned about the COST of energy as it is about HAVING energy to run its copper mining. With the sun-drenched Atacama Desert and wind swept mountains geographically adjacent to the northern mining region, solar and wind […]

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While admitting circumstances have contrived a “perfect storm” of malefactors driving world food prices up (including drought, flood, earthquake and out of control oil prices), an administrator of UN food assistance programs said ethanol subsidies and incentives were one factor that could and should be reconsidered.
The issue is vital because […]

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A new report from noted think tank The Washington Institute essentially shows how to neuter Iran by rerouting oil shipments around the Strait of Hormuz. www.washingtoninstitute.org
According to the report, there are existing and potential pipeline networks that could be used as alternative routes for Gulf energy exports.
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As one of America’s five top sources of imported oil, the health of the Nigerian oil industry is critical to the health of the U.S. economy. So how is it possible that when the Nigerian government’s own energy advisers recently warned that their country’s oil industry is in “grave danger” of a sharp […]

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Already suffering from record gas prices, and with record electric bills on the way this summer, the third act of Americans’ energy nightmare will be played out next winter, when record heating oil bills will threaten to crush millions of low- and middle-income families.
“The government is going to have to step in and […]

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Watch out for growing unrest across Europe now that European Union finance ministers have chosen to bury France’s plan for gas tax relief for Europe’s besieged truckers. euobserver.com
In fact, with India, Malaysia and a number of other governments in the process of removing subsidies that had kept their gas and diesel prices artificially […]

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Nearly three million plug-in hybrid and pure electric vehicles per year will be sold by 2012. The market for the lithium-ion batteries in these vehicles will surge to $16.9 billion in 2012 compared with $6.8 billion in 2007.
Also by 2012, fuel cells “will return from the dead,” commercial sales rising to $1.8 billion […]

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As if record gasoline prices weren’t causing enough consumer pain, Americans are expected to face skyrocketing electric utility bills this summer that may force as many as six million low- and middle-income families to seek government and utility assistance, twice as many as historically seek aid. Some could even die.
That’s according to Michael […]

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