Energy

Open source energy video     Peak Oil solved: but climate will fry - BP report

$674B annual spend on 'unburnable' fossil fuel assets signals failure to recognise huge financial risk

World Energy Oulook 2011    World Energy Outlook 2010    WWF: The Energy Report

The ACEEE 2012 International Energy Efficiency Scoreboard   GL Garrad Hassan

Trends, Persistence & Volatility in Energy Markets    The Energy Commons

Global energy network and information system   UN emissions market needs urgent reform

Genscape: Earth Observation satellite tracks infrastructure development projects

China urges global energy cooperation    More clean energy does not mean less dirty energy

Discovery opens door to efficiently storing and reusing renewable energy

Cooled coal emissions would clean air and lower health and climate-change costs 

A tipping point for fossil fuels    Equinox Communique   The base-load myth     Waste-to-Energy Plants

UGA discovery may allow scientists to make fuel from CO2 in the atmosphere

Nuclear, coal power face climate change risk-study     74 nuclear reactors in tsunami-risk areas

Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation

Energy independence is nothing but an illusion in the modern world

Asia's energy challenge 

How is 100% renewable energy possible in Japan by 2020?    Japan extracts 'fire ice' gas from seabed

How is 100% renewable energy possible in South Korea by 2020?

How is 100% renewable energy possible in Turkey by 2020? 

North Sea power-to gas platform

Australia: Energy, climate and poverty - time to broaden the conversation  

Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan

The economic argument for adopting a zero emissions energy policy in Australia

The world is locking itself into an unsustainable energy future which would have far-reaching consequences

Technology funding makes climate protection cheaper    Renewable Energy Technology Cost Review

New research suggests Cap and Trade programs do not provide sufficient incentives for energy technology innovation

Huge renewable energy growth this decade, if EU countries meet projections

German Village Achieves Energy Independence … And Then Some    

Americans See High Energy Costs Ahead But Bullish That Advanced Energy Can Solve Problems, Strengthen Economy

How much will tar sands oil add to global warming?

US energy policy is "all wet" when it comes to hidden costs   US: drought, water and energy - a national survey of attitudes

US Survey: "Partisan Divide" On Energy Issues Is a Myth, Strong Bipartisan Support Seen For Shift To Cleaner Energy

Electric Utilities:

Breakthrough in converting waste heat to electricity

A study of 5 countries that generate electricity from renewable resources

Achieving 100% reliance on renewable energy for electricity generation  in Central America

Wind, solar paired with storage could be cost-effective way to US power grid

Preparing utilities for climate change    Growth of 'distributed' electricity could transform utility systems

Linking electricity and water models to access electricity choices at water-relevant scales

Evaluation of power generation options in response to changes in surface water reservoir storage 

Modeling low-carbon US electricity futures to explore impacts on national and regional water usage

Life cycle water use for electricty generation: a review and harmonization of literature estimates

Operational water consumption and withdrawal factors for electricity generating technologies: a review of existing literature

Horizontal cooling towers: riverine ecosystem services and the fate of thermoelectric heat in the contemporary Northeast US 

Water use for electricity in the US: an analysis of reported and calculated water use information for 2008

The water implications of generating electricity: water use across the US based on different electricity pathways through 2050 

Can switching fuels save water? A life cycle quantification of freshwater consumption for Texas coal- and natural gas-fired electricity

UCLA center creates first intteractive electricity-use map of Los Angeles 

Hydrogen for large-scale electricity generation in USA   Canada can be energy superpower

China's power utilities exposed to water disruption   China's power utilities in hot water: report summary 

Health costs of coal-sourced electricity in SouthEast Asia 

Simulations of Scenarios with 100% Renewable Electricity in the Australian National Electricity Market

Smart Grids:

Quantum cryptography put to work for electric grid security        

The need to coordinate transmission policy: an overview of the issues

US national grid creates big questions for transmission industry    Finding reserves on the electrical grid

Power Blackout Risks    George Arnold of NIST On Smart Grid Standards    The Smart Grid (audio)

U.S., Europe Collaborating on Smart Grid Standards Development

Simulation software optimizes smart grids  Supergrid: efficient generation, storage and distribution of energy    

Cross-border interconnections on every continent       Powering up Asia's super-grid

Using Computers and Sensors to Curb Electricity Use in Buildings

Innovative Superconductor Fibers Carry 40 Times More Electricity

Disaggregated End-Use Energy Sensing for the Smart Grid

Oil:

New device recreates oil reservoir on a chip    Every Chromatogram Tells a Story

Crude oil ‘far from depleted’    Closing Oil Stock Levels in Days of Net Imports 

Americans using more fossil fuels

Canada-Alberta Oil Sands environmental monitoring information portal     

Taking Control of Oil: Managing Dependence on Petroleum Fuels in the Pacific 

How Effective are Oil Funds? Managing Resource Windfalls in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan

China gets massive deep-water rig     Models will enable safer deepwater oil production

New microwave method converts used motor oil into fuel 

Oil Shale:

Shale offers freedom and security - but it could be a trap

Hydraulic Fracturing: the state of the science    The Hard Facts about Fracking

Hydraulic fracturing and water resources: separating the frack from the fiction

Wastewater injection spurred biggest earthquake yet, says study

Fracking requires a minimum distance of at least 0.6km from sensitive rock strata

Fracking production 'outstrips scientific knowledge'    

CAPP members establish new Guiding Principles for Hydraulic Fracturing      

Horizontal Drilling and Shale Exploration  

Oil sands environmental impact unknown: Canada audit

Evaluation of microbial biofilm communities from an Alberta oil sands tailings pond

Ohio Earthquake Likely Caused by Fracking Wastewater  

Fracking will poison New York's drinking water, critics warn    Little revolution, big fracking consequences

Avoiding fracking earthquakes: expensive venture

Fracking tests near Blackpool 'likely cause' of tremors   Earthquake Hazard Associated With Deep Well Injection

Tighten fracking regulations, scientists urge US officials

Natural Gas:

An introduction to shale gas    OPEC could collapse as shale gas pops peak oil myth

Assessing the Real and Perceived Consequences of Shale Gas Development

Shale-gas extraction faces growing public and regulatory challenges

Gas quakes anger Dutch farmers but relieve state coffers

Shale gas production: potential vs actual greenhouse gas emissions

Assessing the greenhouse impact of natural gas

The greenhouse impact of unconventional gas for electricity generation

Methane contamination of drinking water accompanying gas-well drilling and hydraulic fracturing

Methane on Tap: Study Links Pollution to Gas Drilling

US DOE Shale Gas Production Subcommittee

Considering Shale Gas Extraction in North Carolina: Lessons from Other States

Using the energy in oil shale without releasing carbon dioxide in a greenhouse world

Caution needed with new greenhouse gas emission standards

Carbon Capture & Storage:  

New set of computational tools and models expected to help enable rapid development and deployment of carbon capture technologies

Pulling CO2 from air vital to curb global warming   'Solar Sponge' soaks up CO2 emissions

Going negative: removal of CO2 from the atmosphere      Subsurface energy footprints

Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage and the UNFCCC    What is Carbon capture and Storage?

Carbon Sequestration - Frequently Asked Questions Information Portal 

A Clearer Picture of Carbon Sequestration    Scientists poke holes in CO2 sequestration

Computer model pinpoints prime materials for efficient carbon capture  

Geologic CO2 Storage Research    More Promising Natural Gas Storage? 

CO2 mineral sequestration: developments towards large-scale application

Carbon sequestration options in the international climate regime 

On scale and magnitude of pressure build-up induced by large-scale geologic storage of CO2

Cost and Performance of Carbon Dioxide Capture from Power Generation

Ca looping technology: current status, developments and future directions

The Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium

Australia unveils CCS plant

Geothermal Energy:

Why support geothermal energy?   

Geothermal technology packs one-two punch against climate change

Geothermal industry leads the way towards a more sustainable 2012

Fukushima disaster paves the way for new geothermal plants

First Google.Org-Funded Geothermal Mapping Report Confirms Vast Coast-to-Coast Clean Energy Source

Geothermal industry ends 2012 on a high note. 

Geothermal: International Market Overview Report 2012

GEA International Showcase 2012 highlioghts US leadership in geothermal global market

GEA releases 2012 Policy Priorities

Realizing the geothermal electricity potential—water use and consequences

Pinpointing geothermal energy's water needs

Life cycle analysis of geothermal power generation with supercritical CO2

Converting geothermal knowledge into megawatts 

Making a difference through geothermal energy   Indonesia to tap its geothermal supply

Nuclear Fission Energy:

Exit from nuclear power is affordable – but entering a new energy system is challenging

Safety Approach to Nuclear Operations     NRC rules on future US nuclear licenses

How Fukushima challenged a core tenet of US nuclear safety: an expert's view

Recommendations for enhancing reactor safety in the 21st Century

Global risk of radioactive fallout after major nuclear reactor accidents

Probability for contamination from severe nuclear accidents is higher than expected

New mapping tool shows how severe nuclear accident could look in the US

ESI Launches Nuclear Specialist Website, Promoting Virtual Engineering to Ensure Safety of Nuclear Power Plants

An objective nuclear accident magnitude scale for quantification of severe and catastrophic events

Nuclear Accident ABCs    Spent Nuclear Fuel Pools in the U.S.: Reducing the Deadly Risk of Storage

Texas A&M physicist sees energy solutions in green nuclear power technology 

Simulation of atmospheric krypton-85 transport to assess the detectability of clandestine nuclear reprocessing

Cold War's nuclear wastes pose challenges to science, engineering, society

 A Radical Kind of Reactor    Is Thorium the answer?    Thorium shows promise for nuclear power

Safe nuclear does exist, and China is leading the way with thorium    China to lead in new nuclear reactors?   

Belgium plans to phase out nuclear power     Swiss search for strategy on nuclear   

ENSI issues directives for the EU Stress Test   EU Stress Test: swiss National Report

Ground-based remote sensing profiling and numerical weather prediction model to manage nuclear power plants meteorological surveillance in Switzerland

UK Government needs to correct its short sighted approach to nuclear power

South Africa to push ahead with nuclear plans    Bangladesh signs deal for first nuclear plant

Seismic Activity Near Major Canadian Nuclear Facilities   

Central and Eastern US Seismic Source Characterization for Nuclear Facilities

How seawater could corrode nuclear fuel    Prepare for unanticipated nuclear accident

Nuclear Fusion Energy:

Scientists propose a solution to a critical barrier to producing fusion

International Thermal Experimental Reactor (ITER)      How long is the fuse for fusion?

US senators request investigation of international fusion experiment

Scientists discuss progress towards magnetic fusion energy

Laser Inertial Fusion Energy (LIFE)    NIF to shift emphasis after the facility'sfailure to achieve ignition

Solar Energy:

Funneling the Sun's energy     Peel-and-stick solar panels

How graphene and friends could harness the Sun's energy

HCPT collaboration aims to harness the energy of 2000 suns

Review and comparison of different solar energy technologies      Solar water heaters

Major advance in using sunlight to produce steam without boiling water

Using rust and water to store solar energy as hydrogen     Organic solar cell breakthrough

Concentrating solar power: its potential contribution to a sustainable energy future

A study of very large solar desert systems with the requirements and benefits to those nations having high solar irradiation potential  

Scientists help make deserts into solar-energy hubs    Morocco seeks to be green energy leader

Now you can determine the solar efficiency of your roof    A new dimension for solar energy 

CCNY’s Solar Roof Pod Showcases Innovative Technology

Stanford scientists build the first all-carbon solar cell    Coupling PV and Thermal In Solar Collectors  

California on course for renewable energy   European PV status report 2012

Wind Energy:

Various wind turbine technologies   New wind technology    Offshore wind     Rethinking wind power

Wind could meet world's total power demand - and then some - by 2030

Are local wind power resources well estimated?    Using machine learning to predict wind turbine power output

Survey of offshore wind farm projects in the EU and their connecting grid systems

The modification of wind turbine performance by statistically distinct atmospheric regimes

Energy high in the sky     High altitude off-shore wind sails    Airborne Wind Energy

2010 Wind Technologies Market Report   Blowing Down the Barriers to Wind Energy    

Windpower: lessons for the future      Upwind Report   Gales send turbines into overdrive

The modification of wind turbine performance by statistically distinct atmospheric regimes

Opportunities and challenges in assessing climate change impacts on wind energy—a critical comparison of wind speed projections in California

Caltech Researchers Find Wind-turbine Placement Produces 10-fold Power Increase

Iowa State engineers study how hills, nearby turbines affect wind energy production

US engineers enlist weather model to optimize offshore wind plans

Quantifying the hurricane risk to offshore wind turbines

Keepers of the wind in the Pacific Northwest   Lawrence Livermore Ramps Up Wind Energy Research

Berkeley Lab study shows significantly higher potential for wind energy in India than previously estimated

Mitigating Wind Development’s Impacts on Wildlife in Kansas 

Impacts of wind farms on land surface temperature   

Assessing possible climatic impacts of large wind farms using satellite data 

Wind Super Modelling   Wind Power Without the Blades  Noise research to combat 'wind turbine syndrome'

Structure-borne sound and vibration from building-mounted wind turbines

The effect of giant wind farms on precipitation in a regional climate model

Offshore use of vertical-axis wind turbines gets a closer look

Long term wind speed changes due to climate change

Atmospheric stability affects wind turbine power collection

Why go offshore?   Potential climatic impacts and reliability of large-scale offshore wind farms

Short-term ecological effects of an offshore wind farm in the Dutch coastal zone; a compilation

Floating axis wind turbines for offshore power generation—a conceptual study

Giant concrete spheres: new form of energy storage for offshore wind farms

UK MOD deems wind towers a national security threat.    

Wave Energy:

Ocean Renewable Energy study - Australia 2015-2050   Wave tests prove successful   

Marine energy doubled by predicting wave power    Predicting wave power could double marine-based energy

Gradient Energy:

Thermodynamic and energy efficiency analysis of power generation from natural salinity gradients by pressure retarded osmosis  

BioFuels:

Large-scale bioenergy from additional harvest of forest biomass is neither sustainable nor greenhouse gas neutral

Modeling biofuel expansion effects on land use change dynamics

Estimates reduce amount of additional land available for biofuel production

Expansion of energy production from biomass requires careful consideration    Sustaingas

Production of bioenergy crops in the Midwest US     Study offers insight into converting wood to bio-oil

New study suggests EU biofuels are as carbon intensive as petrol    Bioenergy - chances and limits

Map identifies potential areas for boosting biofuel crop yield    Bioenergy from surplus land

Bioenergy Project Development & Biomass Supply   Fuelling the Future

China Turns to Biogas to Ease Impact of Factory Farms    Biogas aids Ugandan cattle-herders

Direct climate effects of perennial bioenergy crops in the United States

Scientists Identify New Microbe-Produced Advanced Biofuel as an Alternative to Diesel Fuel

Teaching Algae to make Fuel     Warning issued for modified algae

Engineered bacteria make fuel from sunlight     What green algae are up to in the dark

Large-scale production of biofuels made from algae poses sustainability concerns

Iowa State University scientists genetically increase algae biomass by more than 50 percent

Wind in the willows boosts biofuel production