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Royal Dutch Shell’s Global Business Environment executive Jeremy Bentham and team addressed and fielded questions from the press regarding the company’s “Energy Scenarios to 2050” research and analysis during the first of a planned series of live Shell Dialogues web chats earlier today, May 15.
3 Hard Truths
Broadly speaking, “Three Hard Truths” underlie and are driving developments in the global energy industry, according to Shell’s analysis. Emerging nations have been increasingly participating in globalization for the past ten years and more and will continue to do so, creating a significant “discontinuity” on the demand side of the global energy production and distribution system, Bentham noted during the web chat - one that conventional energy suppliers, as well as governments and international agencies, have failed to adjust and adapt to in timely fashion, much less foresee, he might have added.
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Two significant and contrasting news items related to climate change and energy appear in the April 23 edition of the International Herald Tribune: Europe will increasingly rely on coal to meet its growing electricity needs while two US VCs team up with Norway’s ThinkGlobal to manufacture recyclable, emissions-free electric vehicles in California.[read more]
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Renewable energy investment and activity is taking a hit due to housing market weakness, bank losses and financial industry turmoil, the credit crunch and the slowing economy but capital is still flowing in and the sector as a whole is relatively buoyant, according to new New Energy Finance research.[read more]
At 7.5 MW - twice as big as the competition, which clock in at an average of around 3.5 MW - the Britannia achieves the economy of scale that offsets the extra cost of offshore development, while simultaneously reducing the number of platforms you need. Which means, paradoxically, that with a larger wind turbine, you leave a smaller environmental footprint (hey Bobby Kennedy Jr., are you listening?)[read more]
The NSF announced two breakthroughs that help pave the way for the development and widespread use of a variety of green fuels derived from cellulosic biomass such as corn stover, wood waste, switchgrass and fast growing poplar trees. Criticism of such efforts continues, however. [read more]
Want to learn about oil dependence, make like one of our national leaders and formulate energy policy in response to a threat to global oil supplies? Check out the curriculum box set of Oil ShockWave at the Web site of the same name.[read more]
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GridPoint Inc.and Duke Energy announced positive results from what is believed to be the first commercial test of utility-controlled “smart charging” for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs).[read more]
Academic institutions in Georgia, Minnesota and New York have been invited to represent their states in a joint US-Swedish renewable energy institute that aims to spearhead development and adoption of renewable energy technology.[read more]
Cambridge, Massachusetts has earned a reputation as a community promoting forward-thinking energy and environmental policies. From sustainable building to transportation and...[read more]
The DoE's National Renewable Energy Lab announced MoU's for two public-private partnerships in the past two days: one on the Hawaiian island of Maui where it will work with UPC to research and develop wind energy resources in line with Gov. Lingle's Clean Energy Initiative, and a second with Conoco-Phillips and Iowa State U. to develop biomass-to-fuel conversion technologies making use of corn stalks, hardy grasses, fast growing trees and other non-food vegetable organic matter.[read more]
Solar thermal technology provides space heating and/or hot water and is a frequently forgotten member of the solar family. These...[read more]
The American Southwest has some of the greatest solar resources on the globe, it yet remains largely untapped. This trend...[read more]
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