Shale Gas: Not a 'Game Changer' After All

15 Jun, 2011 04:51 pm Newly accessible natural gas from deep shale deposits around the world has been touted as a solution to everything from oil dependence to climate change...

Fossil Fuels vs. The Public Interest

1 Sep, 2010 12:32 pm The fossil fuel industry often pretends to have the public's best interests in mind. The operative word is "pretends."

Investigating the Resource Curse in Southeast Asia

24 May, 2010 03:23 pm New evidence suggests that the developing countries of Southeast Asia are not prone to the resource curse when it comes to oil and gas production.

My Top 10 Energy Related Stories of 2009

30 Dec, 2009 05:34 pm Here are my choices for the Top 10 energy related stories of 2009. Previously I listed how I voted in Platt's Top 10 poll, but my list is a bit different...

Can Solar Compete?

3 Sep, 2009 05:32 pm In this month's briefing on low-carbon electricity technologies, MIT's Technology Review concluded[1] that while the cost of solar power has declined significantly...

Burning Picassos for Heat

26 Aug, 2009 11:05 pm Burning natural gas to extract and process oil from the Canadian tar sands has been likened by one industry insider to burning Picassos for heat...

Britain's Impending Energy Crisis

10 Aug, 2009 10:46 am By 2015, Britain's generating capacity could have dropped by a third as ageing coal and nuclear power stations are closed...

Which Matters Most? The Size of the Tap or the Tank?

22 Jun, 2009 11:19 pm Energy optimists are fond of citing very large numbers for worldwide fossil fuel resources such as oil and natural gas. But they conveniently leave out...

Natural Gas Gaining Momentum

8 Apr, 2009 09:52 am I have said a number of times that I would prefer to take the natural gas we use to make ethanol and just use it directly in compressed natural gas (CNG)...

Over the Cliff for Natural Gas in North America?

26 Jan, 2009 09:23 am Is natural gas production in North America headed for cliff? No one can know for sure; but all signs point down.

Alternative Energy And Natural Gas

13 Jan, 2009 06:08 pm At the end of the first full work week of the new year--a week I suspect I am not alone in having found a bit of a slog--a pair of articles in MIT's Technology...

The Costs of Major Energy Accidents, 1907 to 2007

29 Apr, 2008 12:11 pm Conventional energy technologies-- namely nuclear, coal, oil, gas, and hydroelectric power generators-- may kill more people than you think.

Can the natural gas economy become a reality?

5 Apr, 2008 11:49 am Natural gas has been often been prophesied as the fuel of the future, one that will fill the gap when oil declines and give us the time we need to transition...

Richard Heinberg on a Post-Carbon Future

22 Jan, 2008 10:14 am Ecologist Richard Heinberg, author of The Party's Over, Power Down, The Oil Depletion Protocol, and Peak Everything, talks about energy wars,...

New Tank Innovation Makes Small Natural Gas Vehicles Attractive

9 Mar, 2007 10:31 am Technology uses corncobs to create space-saving briquettes for low-pressure tanks. A development in natural gas technology will make it possible to...