The Road to Sustainable Energy

Haven’t read the article myself yet, but Scientific American published an Article in its November 2009 issue titled A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030 (as txt), where they propose a potential pathway to transition the world onto sustainable energy production by 2030.

Many energy bloggers disagree with this vision, if only in the timeframe.

Here are […]

The power of goo: A less savoury aspect of other kinds of goo

The recent wrangling between Ukraine and Russia over Natural Gas Transit to western Europe got me looking into natural gas and biogas. So I stumbled across “The Complete Biogas Handbook”.

The first tidbits I was able to read online looked rather simple from a trained chemical engineers point of view but hands on from an “I […]

Energy Strategy for the Road Ahead

The Global Business Network published an interesting scenario analysis:

Scenario one: Current economic and energy trends continue with no major regulatory shifts in climate policy

Scenario two: Investment flows overseas make it difficult for most U.S. companies to adjust to an energy and carbon constrained world

Scenario three: Severe weather events and international economic crises bankrupt many U.S. […]

European CO2 emissions

CapGemini has released an interesting report on the EU’s Climate Change Objectives at the end of last year (pdf).

I know I am misinterpreting this and am going way overboard, but whenever I see streamlined graphs like these I want to draw lines in there too… and with the help of skitch this was very easy:

Don’t […]