Friday, December 30, 2005

Subtracting Wedges

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Since I started following the climate change issue in the mid-1990s, I’ve given a lot of thought to what might significantly change the US a...
Thursday, December 29, 2005

Global Gas

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Ever since the hurricanes disabled a sizable fraction of US energy production from the Gulf Coast, I've been worried about the availabil...
Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Local vs. Global Solutions

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Climate change is a global issue. The consequences of greenhouse gas emissions manifest on a greatly-delayed basis around the world, rather ...
Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Access to Resources

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Two stories in last week's news provide perfect counterpoints of the challenge facing the international oil industry with regard to gain...
Friday, December 23, 2005

Deferred Again

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The Congressional opponents of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) won another battle this week in their long war...
Thursday, December 22, 2005

Fat vs. Skinny Branches

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No sooner had I posted yesterday's blog on the economics of hybrid cars than I ran across an article on an entirely new hybrid technolo...
Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Hybrids Down to Earth

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Lately I keep running into articles and commentaries (subscription required) suggesting that hybrid cars are a disappointment and simply not...
Tuesday, December 20, 2005

The Next Oil Crisis

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Yesterday I suggested that we are seeing signs of the fundamentals for oil starting to weaken, setting up the possibility that oil could fin...
Monday, December 19, 2005

Too High or Too Low?

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One of the deep truths about oil prices is that they are impossible to predict even a year out, and that they have a historical tendency to ...
Friday, December 16, 2005

If Not There...?

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Highlighting the destructive and counter-productive nature of the NIMBY-ism that is so prevalent today has been a consistent theme of this b...
Thursday, December 15, 2005

Congress Examines Peak Oil

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One of the topics to which I've devoted considerable space in this blog in the last two years is that of an imminent peak in oil product...
Wednesday, December 14, 2005

How Did Natural Gas Get to $15?

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The futures contract for natural gas for delivery in January 2006 is currently over $15 per million BTUs. The same contract traded under $8 ...
Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Revolving Tür

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Another item from the last week that caught my attention was the announcement that the recently-former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder h...
Monday, December 12, 2005

Voluntary Mechanisms

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There are several topics from my week's absence that I could comment on, including the pending difficulties of Calpine and the prospects...
Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Is Oil Blocking Iraq's Exits?

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Considering the degree to which the US-led invasion of Iraq was linked by so many of its critics to petroleum, it is remarkable that the com...
Tuesday, November 29, 2005

From Little Green Plants to Big Gray Plants

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Here's a good article from Technology Review on some of the new processes that could make biofuels much more economically and environmen...
Monday, November 28, 2005

A Nuclear Venezuela?

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Two of the factors that contributed to America's rise as a world power were its abundant natural resources and the lack of a serious riv...
Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Electrons vs. Molecules

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Following on from a couple of comments to yesterday's posting concerning batteries competing with fuel cells, the basic issue is how to ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Protons vs. Electrons

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My posting last Friday on hydrogen cars for China generated a thought-provoking comment suggesting that advances in battery technology would...
Monday, November 21, 2005

Deeper Disincentives

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Washington, DC, November 10, 2037 - Yesterday's Senate Energy Committee hearing on the exorbitant profits of the biodiesel industry was ...