The Cogeneration Stopgap
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The prospect of going through a cold winter with inadequate heat is a real one. More and more Americans are putting their winter heating fuel on credit, increasing their level of debt and the burden of servicing it. This cannot continue indefinitely. When the ARM resets or the credit cards max out, the whole […]
DrumBeat: February 26, 2008
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Oil Rises Above $100 to Record Close After the Dollar Declines
(Bloomberg) — Crude oil rose above $100 a barrel to a record close in New York as the U.S. dollar fell to an all-time low against the euro, prompting some traders to invest in commodities as a hedge against inflation.
… Crude oil for April delivery […]
U.S. Pushes Sovereign Funds To Open to Outside Scrutiny
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Treasury Has Talks With Abu Dhabi, Seeks Set of Rules By BOB DAVIS February 26, 2008; Page A1 (See Corrections and Amplifications item below.) WASHINGTON –
Why Big Oil discovered its love of trees
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Remember: This is what the home team says. You can imagine what the Mueslix-eating yuppies in Toronto think. Oil executives are not dumb. They can see this.
Renewables, on a national scale, can replace fossil and nuclear powe
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http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jeremy_leggett/2008/02/renewed_energy.html Renewed energy A recent German experiment shows that renewable energy, harnessed
Reining in oil sands
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Election Day in Alberta is six sleeps away and the fight has been mostly quiet, not even generating front-page news every day in the province, which pretty
Is the Starving Man Free?
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This article addresses one of the issues that roils this list. See if you agree with the author’s distinction between “freedom from coercion by other men and
U.S. Pushes Sovereign Funds To Open to Outside Scrutiny
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Treasury Has Talks With Abu Dhabi, Seeks Set of Rules By BOB DAVIS February 26, 2008; Page A1 (See Corrections and Amplifications item below.) WASHINGTON –Read full story
Why Big Oil discovered its love of trees
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Remember: This is what the home team says. You can imagine what the Mueslix-eating yuppies in Toronto think. Oil executives are not dumb. They can see this.Read full story
Termite Power
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When I was in graduate school at Texas A&M in the early 90’s, I selected chemical engineering Professor Mark Holtzapple as my research advisor. His work was exactly in my area of interest: Biofuels from cellulose. Even then, I was very concerned about the unsustainable lifestyle we were living, and I was hoping to save […]
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