News from October 2010

Lurching from One Disaster to the Next

So say experts like Peter Walker, director of the Tufts University-based Feinstein International Center near Boston. In late 2008, his organisation authored a report titled “Humanitarian Costs of Climate Change” for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. “We may be keeping people alive, we may be helping people to survive,” Walker [...]

Russia prepares to spend billions on smart grid upgrades

Russia’s Federal Grid Company (FGC) has signed a deal with the New York-based battery maker Ener1 to find ways to use high-performance batteries to make the ageing Russian electrical grid smarter and more reliable. Russia, the world’s fourth-largest electricity market, has seen record-setting demand for power. After two decades of deferred investment, the nation is [...]

US Military Leadership Acknowledge Peak Oil, Develop Alternatives

Two reports this week clearly indicate that the U.S. military is aware of the peak oil threat and is seriously pursuing development of alternative fuel and energy sources. The immediate costs of transporting fuel on the battlefield as well as the long-term costs of foreign oil dependency (and oil scarcity) have prompted a pragmatic shift [...]

Dr. James Schlesinger “The Peak Oil Debate is Over”

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Former Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Energy and CIA Director

An open letter to medicine, nursing, and public health upon reaching the limits to growth

* 206 reads * Printer-friendly version Bookmark and Share Published Oct 30 2010 by Energy Bulletin, Archived Oct 30 2010 An open letter to medicine, nursing, and public health upon reaching the limits to growth by Dan Bednarz, PhD, J. Mac Crawford, PhD, RN and Nancy Lee Wood, PhD 0 Please Log in or register [...]

Brazil deepwater well hits huge oil reserve

The Brazilian government has found up to 15bn barrels of oil in a deep-water field known as Libra, in a further indication of potentially enormous reserves contained in the so-called pre-salt region first discovered in 2007. If confirmed, the Libra field alone could more than double the size of Brazil’s current proven reserves of about [...]

Halliburton Says BP Is to Blame in Gulf

Halliburton, whose failed cement job on the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico was identified as a contributing factor to the deadly blowout by a presidential investigative panel on Thursday, is defending its work and assigning the blame for the accident to BP. In a six-page statement issued late Thursday night, Halliburton questioned tests [...]

Can you really afford that second child?

I had a conversation with a friend not too long ago who had one child in her mid-thirties and stopped there. She and her husband had an overwhelming desire to have one child, she said, but the desire for a second child just wasn’t strong enough to outweigh the cost. And that was that. I [...]

Another Green Energy Technology suppressed by Government?

Within the last 18 months Green Energy Reports has discovered two very real, and very green technologies being suppressed and witheld from public disclosure. In both cases Halliburton has tried to buy the technologies and their offers were rejected. The first case involves a company called Hobson Secondary Oil, a small company with an incredible [...]

Trillions necessary to maintain Russia’s oil production

Keeping up Russia’s oil output will cost 9 trillion roubles ($292 billion), according to Vladimir Putin. The prime minister called for that level of investment over the next decade to maintain crude oil production levels at 500 million tons a year. And he admitted that tax regimes needed to be reformed before new reserves can [...]