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Peak Energy Peak Oil Peak Energy Peak Oil. Global Warming. Viridian Solutions. RSS 30 OTEC In Guam Jun Essential Reading Posted by Big Gav in guam, ocean energy, otec Our Clean Energy Future OTEC News has a post on a potential Ocean Thermal energy project in Guam, which is The Oil Drum / ANZ claimed to cost $1.5 billion - Guam OTEC . Energy Bulletin MIT Technology Review An interview with American Samoa Territorial Energy Office (TEO) Acting Director Mauigoa WSJ Env. Capital Reupena Tagaloa, with Radio New Zealand International, triggered a couple of articles on Guam Newsfactor. The most interesting part of the articles may be the claim that the US NYT Green Inc Navy would be spending 1.5 Billion to build OTEC for the military facilities on Guam. That World Changing seems like a very high number and I would be interested to hear what has been included in Tree Hugger that. Open The Future Grist / Mill Business Green Bruce Sterling Real Climate Green Car Congress The Energy Collective Peak Oil Debunked 1 comments » 30Jun The Net Hubbert Curve: What Does It Mean? Posted by Big Gav in eroei, peak oil David Murphy has a post at TOD with a good graphic showing the effect of declining EROEI on a Hubbert curve (the "Net Hubbert Curve") = The Net Hubbert Curve: What Does It Mean? . Cutler Cleveland of Boston University has reported that the EROI of oil and gas extraction in the U.S. has decreased from 100:1 in the 1930’s to 30:1 in the 1970’s to roughly 11:1 as of 2000 (Figure 1). But beyond the fact that society receives currently around 11 barrels of oil for every 1 barrel that it spends getting that oil, What does this mean? Well, first, it means that, if the trend of declining EROI continues, society will be spending an increasingly larger chunk of their remaining energy to get more energy. This cycle is positively reinforcing: Declining EROI means that the net energy contained in each unit of energy delivered to society is decreasing over time, requiring the extraction of increasingly greater quantities just to meet societal demand → decreases the quantity of energy remaining in the ground for future society → makes it more difficult to find and develop the remaining bit of energy. With every barrel we pull out of the ground we propel ourselves further down this path, Ads creating a more difficult situation for future generations. (note: I assume that the “Best First Principle” applies to this scenario, i.e. society is using the best resources (i.e. oil fields) first, then the second best, etc…) More importantly, declining EROI also means that the amount of discretionary energy Make Your Own available to society is FAR less than that predicted by a Hubbert curve (Figure 2). The Hydrogen Hubbert curve represents the total gross quantity of energy available, and, as it is We've Found The calculated, there are equal quantities of energy available on the left and right side of the Best Hydrogen peak. This, however, is only true in a gross sense. The net energy available (i.e. Guide Find Out discretionary energy) is less. In other words, declining EROI means that there will be much What We Know less net energy extracted post-peak than pre-peak on the Hubbert curve. And Save Now! LearnHHO.com Marcellus Gas Formation 1,300 Trillion Cubic Feet of Natural Gas. New Investor Report. 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The free online application, which has not yet been made CleanTech Blog officially available, will take data from consumers where available and use it to help them Cleantechnica assess their energy use. Such data will include house features, electricity usage patterns and Earth2tech appliances. Where the information is unavailable, it will use local and national averages. EcoGeek The system will use this data to make practical recommendations to consumers, including EE / RE Investing placing new caulking on windows or installing a programmable thermostat, said the Gas 2.0 company in a statement. Greener Computing Greentech Media The system is designed to integrate with energy meters so that it can gather data from IDFuel customers transparently. To this end, the software giant is working with four utilities: Xcel Inhabitat Energy, Puget Sound Energy, Seattle City Light and Sacramento Municipal Utility District. It IT Week Green Business will create a software development kit for utilities to work with. Leonardo Energy Massive Change Significantly, the software giant says that Hohm will use the Microsoft advertising platform, Renewable Energy World indicating that there may be a commercial element to the system. It will also take Smart Grid News advantage of its recently launched Bing search engine. Smart Growth The move comes just weeks after Google announced its own set of partnerships around a Smart Meters similar system, called Google Power Meter. It, too, is publishing a set of APIs designed to TransMaterial enable utilities to look into its own systems, feeding data back to its servers, and enabling Terrawatts News consumers to monitor their own power use. 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"Some 1.6 billion hectares could be added to the current 1.4 billion hectares of crop land [in the world], and over half of the additionally available land is found in Africa and Latin America," concludes the report, compiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Big Gav Development and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). View my complete profile If further evidence were needed, it comes in a second report, launched jointly by the FAO and the World Bank. It concludes that 400 million hectares, straddling 25 African countries, Interesting Sites are suitable for farming. A Few Things Ill - Models for producing new crop land already exist in Thailand, where land originally deemed Considered agriculturally unpromising, due to irrigation problems and infertile soil, has been After Gutenberg transformed into a cornucopia by smallholder farmers. 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Satellite O'er The Desert TED Existence is the ultimate proof of the possible. Every time a bold new project is tried, and The Energy Blog works, we advance our sense of the achievable. Given how much transformation we need in Transition Culture order to meet the challenges we face, we need many more attempts at innovation, and TransMaterial we're not getting them. The achievable is not advancing quickly enough. TREC News TomDispatch Why does it matter? Because our perception of what's possible dictates our standards of Yale Environment 360 what's acceptable, and the biggest barriers to social innovation and bright green experimentation are almost always institutional, legal and regulatory. We may have tons of new technology, promising designs, ambitious plans, but in most of the Global North, it's Ads exceedingly costly and difficult to try new things at any scale. 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