Showing posts with label Fossil Fuels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fossil Fuels. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Opinion

Unleashing Shakti: our power to transform
Fossil fuels have fossilised our imagination, our potential, and our creativity.Environment - Vandana Shiva - posted 4/8/2009

The folly of ‘magical solutions’ for targeting carbon emissions
Governments and society should focus money and attention on workable solutions for improving energy efficiency. Environment - Roger Pielke - posted 4/8/2009

Friday, July 24, 2009

Peak oil may solve climate change
Unrealistic expectations of fossil energy supply is but one glaring error in the climate change science. Environment - James Bunger - posted 23/7/2009

CCS: investment in futility?
Why invest more than $2 billion in CCS when it can do little more than prolong the uneconomic use of fossil fuels? Science & Technology - Mike Pope - posted 23/7/2009

Monday, July 13, 2009

Friday, June 19, 2009

Is there a green fossil fuel?
The natural gas interests are interested in the being the first choice fuel in the American future. A report just issued from the Potential Gas Committee sure makes natural gas look like the best potential fuel for generating electricity in coming decades. The U.S. is actually adding to its estimated reserves. Unlike Peak Oil, there seems no fear that natural gas is in seriously dwindling supply. How can there be more natural gas? More sophisticated exploration techniques and more effective gas release technology. Of course, any exploited resource comes with a cost. From coal mining to obtaining minerals for lithium-ion batteries to casting solar panels, we have no energy source that does not exact some environmental toll. We need a...

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Online Opinion

Fossil Fuels Fail to Explain Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels: AEF Media ReleaseCHAIR of the Australian Environment Foundation, Jennifer Marohasy, today welcomed new research by Australian physicist [...]

Climate policy not even treading waterAustralians are not doing enough to help nations faced with climate-induced calamities.Environment - James Norman - posted 14/4/2009