Fossil Fuel Energy

By Tom Murphy, GigaOMHaving looked at the major alternatives to fossil fuel energy production ( summarized here), we come away with the general sentiment that the easy days of cheap energy are not evidently carried forward into a future without fossil fuels. In the slapdash scoring scheme I employed in the alternative energy matrix, the best performers racked up 5 points, whereas by the same criteria, our traditional fossil fuels typically...  

President Obama, in his latest budget proposal, has called to repeal more than $4 billion a year in subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, arguing that these “inefficient fossil fuel subsidies… impede investment in clean energy sources and ...  

Here are disturbing numbers from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, by Lester R. Brown, and its excerpt "Governments Spend $1.4 Billion Per Day to Destabilize Climate ...  

Presented by Bruce Grulke, CEO, REConomics, LLC Biodiesel: America's Advanced Biofuel -Liquid fuels are essential for many aspects of society. The only alternative to unsustainable fossil fuels for heavy-duty transportation and mobile uses is biofuel.  

Having looked at the major alternatives to fossil fuel energy production (summarized here), we come away with the general sentiment that the easy days of cheap energy are not evidently carried forward into a future without fossil fuels.  

A startling new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) reveals a free-market way to thwart climate change: Create a free market in energy. Fatih Birol, chief economist at the IEA, estimates that 37 nations spent $409 billion on fossil fuel subsidies in 2010. (By comparison, renewables received $66 billion in that same year.) Impressively, if fossil fuel subsidies were eliminated, this would avoid 750 million tons of CO2 by 2015...  

A $425 MILLION ethanol and power plant to be built in Ingham could hit the jackpot and produce biofuel for the US Navy. The plant, to be built by North Queensland Bio-Energy by 2015, will produce up to 200,000 litres of ethanol a day. Regional Economies ...  

Duncan Clark writes: According [International Energy Agency] research, 37 governments spent $409bn on artificially lowering the price of fossil fuels in 2010. Critics say the subsidies significantly boost oil and gas consumption and disadvantage renewable energy technologies, which received only $66bn of subsidies in the same year. [IEA chief economist Fatih Birol] said that a phase-out would avoid 750m tonnes of CO2 a year by 2015...  

It’s no contest between gas and oil on one end and renewable energy sources on the other when it comes to government subsidies. According to a detailed report by the International Energy Agency, the world’s nations in 2010 spent $409 billion on ...  

But a study by the International Energy Agency finds that by ending fossil fuel subsidies, the “free-market” would make most cost-efficient choices.This natural shift could get the world halfway to its ambitious  carbon reduction goals.A ...  

One of the most surprising and alarming issues in the climate and energy arena is the fact that the fossil fuels causing global warming continue to receive substantial government support, making them artificially cheap and encouraging more of them to be ...  

Phasing out these fossil fuel subsidies it would save 750 million tonnes of CO2 every year by 2015, up to 2.6 gigatonnes by 2035, Birol said. As for the concern that in many developing nations keeping energy prices artificially low is needed to help raise ...  

Fourth grade students at Ranger School learned about renewable energy last week from a local expert volunteering to implement the subject in the district's curriculum. Cheri Olf, executive director of Solar Campus Initiative and former director of ...  

Plus: In the beginning, we needed energy. We had no industry, no science, no knowledge of pollution problems. Fossil fuel was there, often right at the surface, for the taking. It fueled the industrial revolution. Minus: fossil fuel energy ...  

Dwindling stocks of fossil fuels and the looming threat of global warming have been pushing the world towards a new era of sustainable energy including wind, wave, solar and nuclear. But with the discovery of techniques to extract shale gas, the narrative ...