When looking at energy sources, fossil fuel is a good place to start – over 80% of the world’s energy production is from fossil fuel, coal, oil and natural gas. All in all, a conversion chart to normalize primary energy volume would have BTU’s, which economists love, expressed in quadrillions, along with “million ton [...]

Following this brief commentary is a “letter for publication” entitled “CLEAN, SAFE SOURCES OF ELECTRICITY” received from www.mng.org.uk/gh/ and if you can find out what M, N, and G mean you are more observant than I. In this “letter for publication” we are provided a list of alternative energy technologies that may power the planet [...]

Sacramento is the capital of California, a state that is world-renowned for its concern for the environment. As such, the Sacramento region is attracting businesses and investors from around the world, eager to capitalize on Sacramento’s enthusiastic embrace of green industry. But sometimes green is brown.
At the Port of Sacramento, a start-up company [...]

At last there is a bit of a chorus developing to call attention to the biofueled destruction of tropical rainforests at a time when rainforest restoration might actually curb global warming better and faster than drastically curtailing use of fossil fuel.
The Global Canopy Programme (GCP), to quote their own website, is “a global alliance [...]

IMPROVING ENERGY INTENSITY IS PROVING A DAUNTING TASK IN THE WORLD’S MOST POPULOUS NATION

How much of the old China will remain?

Editor’s Note: China, like India, is a nation of staggering population – well over 1.0 billion people – that is careening into the modern industrial age. In this report by Gordon Feller, it [...]