When driving an unfamiliar road, and there is a curve, most everyone will slow down . However, there is always the knucklehead who takes the turn too fast. The good news this week is we have eased up on the gas, and are no longer barreling straight ahead into some unknown disaster. For the past eight months there has been a speculator driven oil bubble —it has popped . Remember how just a few weeks ago, when some second rate neo-con nitwit would offer the opinion it would be necessary for... Read Full Story
With spot oil prices surging to $120 a barrel (futures remain over $100 through 2016), a shortage of electrical generation capacity across the world, and hugely wasteful Chinese and other emerging market demand for all kinds of fossil fuels from coal to LNG, we are clearly approaching some kind of tipping point for our current energy paradigm. I'd be a seller of current prices which result from a speculative bubble in commodities, but probably a buyer of 2016 futures; worldwide demand for... Read Full Story
So the G.O.P. has found its issue for the 2008 election. For the next three months the party plans to keep chanting: "Drill here! Drill now! Drill here! Drill now! And the debate on energy policy has helped me find the words for something I've been thinking about for a while. Republicans, once hailed as the "party of ideas," have become the party of stupid. Now, I don't mean that G.O.P. politicians are, on average, any dumber than their Democratic counterparts. And I certainly don't mean to... Read Full Story
API has issued the following statement on the House energy bill under discussion today:
“The House energy bill is a dry hole for American consumers. The bill does little to increase U.S. oil and natural gas supplies and, in fact, may well result in less domestic production, which would make America more dependent on foreign energy.”
The plan guarantees $18 billion in new taxes on the industry, which would discourage new energy production. At the same time, it offers the illusion of... Read Full Story
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
IGCC plus CCS - an Objective Analysis
By F.Starr : Claverton Group Conference Paper - October 2008
1. Introduction
The British Government has recently indicated that it will only support “post combustion capture” schemes for the removal of CO 2 from the flue gases of new-build power plant. In such schemes the idea is that just before the flue gases are vented up the stack, the CO 2 is removed by washing the gases with an alkaline... Read Full Story
Leadership, Organization and Knowledge Management By Robin Trehan, B.A, MIB, MBA electronic business A dynamic leadership is a necessity for sharing knowledge. Throughout the knowledge process, leaders concern themselves with the following questions: What needs to change and why? How do we build the necessary connection between people and ideas? How will we create a community of people who are ready and willing to act? For leadership to find what, how and why answers, leadership needs to re... Read Full Story
There are 3,000 new jobs available in Wisconsin and Minnesota!
Don’t look now, but the economy is beginning to stir after the enforced hibernation of the general economic collapse that was prompted by the failure of the financial and real estate markets. Even the oil and gas sector is coming back after the whiplash ride of experiencing crude oil prices soar to about $150 a barrel before slumping to around $30 a barrel in the course of a few months in 2008. (Crude oil futures are now... Read Full Story
The election is over and now decisive action needs to occur on the development of a clean energy initiative for America. Numerous suggestions have been provided by high profile citizens, from Al Gore to T. Boone Pickens, and the new President-elect should appoint a team of talented individuals, with a cabinet level Secretary of Energy Transformation leading the charge, to address this problem.
There are numerous nay-sayers that believe Global Warming and oil dependency are non... Read Full Story
These days, clean energy ranks right up there with Mom, apple pie and ice cream as an All-American attribute. You can barely sit through a TV show, listen to the radio, or even read a blog without coming across an ad from someone extolling the virtues of some "clean" energy form or another.
Never mind that some of them—from nuclear power to "clean" coal—bear no resemblance to the cleanest solutions like wind, solar and energy efficiency. Some industries have more money to spend on ads... Read Full Story
T. Boone Pickens' Clean-Energy Plan (Pickens' Plan): Ponzi SchemeTechnorati Tags: current affairs, current events, news, politics, science, technology, Tom Usher, T. Boone Pickens, energy, Pickens' Plan, Ponzi scheme
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