After years of over promising and under delivering, the solar industry is finally starting to show some interesting developments that have the potential to make solar power as cheap as fossil fuel on a cost-per-watt basis within five years.
Getting us to that state, called grid parity, would require solar companies [...]
We the Six Billion: The Ammonia Economy
His presentation, entitled "The Gulf of Maine: What Lies Beyond the Fossil Fuel Horizon," was billed as "describing the role that off-shore wind can play in reducing Maine's unsustainable dependence on fossil fuel based energy resources."
At the Strand he pulled no punches in' [...]
Energy savings to be big part of nations energy future
The easiest way to reduce U.S. consumption of greenhouse gas-emitting fossil fuels may not involve changing the way it is generated, but rather simply using less of it, an energy expert said.
Maxine Savitz, vice president of the National Academy of Engineering, [...]
KALUNDBORG, Denmark (Reuters) - A new plant in Denmark has begun converting straw into bioethanol for cars, pellets for biofuel-burning power plants and molasses for animal feed to avoid the carbon emissions from fossil fuels.
State oil, gas and power firm DONG Energy inaugurated the plant on Wednesday in time to [...]
This post is one of my series of tech talks, describing some of the ways in which fossil fuels are produced. In the current part of the series we are focusing a little more on the procedures that are being used to recover natural gas from formations such as the [...]
This post is one of my series of tech talks, describing some of the ways in which fossil fuels are produced. In the current part of the series we are focusing a little more on the procedures that are being used to recover natural gas from formations such as [...]
Here's the bad news about the global recession potentially coming to an end: the recovery could spark a massive energy crisis with increased demand for fossil fuels from China and other developing countries, tighter oil supplies and skyrocketing oil prices. And this is just in the near future. The longer-term [...]
Since fossil fuels are the essential commodity for modern civilization, reckoning their "cost" is critical.
Fossil fuels can be regarded as "cheap" or costly, depending on the context. How much energy does it require to extract and process the oil and gas, and then clean up [...]
(Reuters) - Nuclear energy is seen by some countries as an effective way to keep up electricity supplies while cutting emissions of climate warming gases from burning fossil fuels.
Lingering concerns over nuclear safety, waste and costs have limited the sector's growth in western Europe but several central and eastern European [...]
Richard Heinberg has been fairly specific about the dimensions of the challenge. He estimates that due to fossil fuel depletion [...]
