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Where the Shale Gas Revolution Came From

The ongoing shale gas boom has expanded domestic energy production, pushed wholesale electricity prices to record lows, and accelerated the closure of America’s aging coal plant fleet, lowering national power-sector carbon emissions. This revolution in natural gas — unleashed by a flood of recently accessible shale gas reserves, once thought to be unrecoverable — is [...]

Green Energy Technology Suppression At The DoE

After getting my posts at various blogs deleted or hacked and being ridiculed or smeared or called called a “nut” or “disgruntled former employee” by others, I come here to let intelligent people decide for yourself if I am either or both. I have no other way to get my story out to you – [...]

Dump the pump: could peak oil be voluntary?

People have fretted about when the world’s oil will start to run out ever since M. King Hubbert came up with the idea of “peak oil” back in the 1950s. The American geologist, who worked for Shell, pointed out that we are destined to reach a moment when oil production stops rising and goes into [...]

The Art of PV War

The U.S. Department of Commerce today handed down it’s preliminary report on alleged dumping by Chinese solar manufacturers in the US market. The landmark findings handed down concluded that Chinese manufacturers were guilty of dumping solar cells and panels into the U.S. market, and imposed preliminary margins of 31.14 % for Trina, 31.22 % for Suntech, 31.18 % [...]

Jeff Everson Radio Interview on Peak Oil

The long View – Sustainability Radio, On WUML FM 91.5s “Thinking Out loud” Dr. Jeff Everson speaks on Peak Oil: what is it and what does the future hold without citizen and Government intervention. We know that Clean Renewable Energy (CRE) is what we need to protect the remaining health of the planet. Can we organize [...]

Saudi Arabia Plans $109 Billion Boost for Solar Power

Saudi Arabia is seeking investors in a $109 billion plan to create a solar industry that generates a third of the nation’s electricity within two decades, according to officials at the government agency developing the plan. The world’s largest crude oil exporter aims to have 41,000 megawatts of solar capacity by 2032, said Maher al-Odan, [...]

Ethanol: Growing Food, Feed, Fiber, and Fuel?

Most analysts agree that we are rapidly approaching “peak oil,” the point when the volume of global oil production begins to decline. In response, Farm Bill programs have promoted a shift to liquid “biofuels” and “biomass” energy derived from farms. The Renewable Fuels Standard of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, for instance, [...]

Your Regularly Scheduled Peak Oil Doomsday Has Been Postponed Several Decades to Allow Humans to Convert to Advanced Nuclear Power

Massive Hydrocarbon Resources Beginning to UnfoldHumans have been unexpectedly handed several decades in which to convert their power infrastructure from a dependency on combustion energy to the use of advanced nuclear power. The explosion in the available natural gas resource — from the shale gas bonanza to the coming gas hydrates boom and beyond — [...]

New Solar Collector Heralds New Era in CSP

Solar thermal energy technology has taken an important step further with a new collaboration between 3M’s Renewable Energy Division and Gossamer Space Frames. The companies yesterday unveiled a new parabolic trough solar collector technology designed to reduce costs and equipment for Concentrated Solar Power systems. CSP is a solar system whereby sunlight is converted to [...]

Rare Earth Elements and Pyrolysis Oil

In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I talk about the significance of China’s dominance of rare earth element production, and the conversion of pyrolysis oil into fuel. The questions answered this week are: 1. Can you discuss the uses of ‘rare earth’ elements in the production of renewable energies (i.e., wind and solar)? [...]

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