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Daniel Yergin
The Future Of Electricity-Center Of Gravity Shifting To Asia
The global electric power landscape is changing fast, and increasingly, the action in it has been shifting to Asia. On average, in each of the last three years, China alone has added as much new generating capacity as all of existing capacity in Texas. The shift to Asia will continue. [Read More]
Daniel Yergin
Security, Climate And Technology
The world today depends on fossil fuels to meet over 80 percent of its energy needs, a simple fact of the way the industrial world has grown up. But dependence brings with it major challenges placing places the United States and the world at an energy crossroads. [Read More]
Matthew Hick
Alternative Fuel Sources - Moving Away From Gas
With soaring gas prices, and concerns about the effects fossil fuel use is having on the environment, researchers are scrambling to find alternative fuel options for America's dependence on foreign oil. [Read More]
Matt OConnor
What's Actually In Biodiesel?
Rising prices of energy fuels have prompted companies and individuals to search for low-cost sources of fuels for their machines and automobiles. One of the most popular alternative fuel is biodiesel, a fuel derived from vegetable and animal fats. [Read More]
Michael Dappert
Agriculture: Our Biggest Environmental Disaster
Agriculture has a huge impact on the environment. Until the full impact of current agricultural practices are reflected in the shelf price of each product things will stay the same. [Read More]
Daniel Yergin
Renewable Electric Power Takes Off
Renewable electric power is beginning to soar. The current surge of activity, which has been accelerating over the last few years, is driven by several factors including environmental and sociopolitical considerations. [Read More]
Daniel Yergin
Will Innovation Transform Energy?
There has never before been so wide-ranging a drive for technological advance and breakthroughs. It affects every part of the energy industry, whether one is talking about oil and natural gas, renewables and alternatives or efficiency and demand management. The impact is evident in the oil and gas industry. [Read More]
Warren Peters
Wind Power as a Viable Solution to Alternative Energy Needs
This web site covers many sources of no coal fuel that makes energy earth friendly. Wind power is one. Even the ocean is being utilized. Solar panels and even nuclear power have made giant steps in cleaning up the planet. [Read More]
Michael Dappert
Why Can't We Turn Our Lights Off
The simple act of turning off lights when not needed could save large amounts of energy and eliminate tons of green house gases. So why don't we do it? [Read More]
Daniel Yergin
Ethanol And Brazil: The New Global Energy Brand?
When it comes to energy, Brazil is on its way to becoming a "global brand." Although the United States recently outpaced Brazil in ethanol production, Brazil is by far the leader in sugar-based ethanol. [Read More]
Daniel Yergin
A Double Bubble Drives Rising Oil Production Costs
The dramatic run-up in oil prices in recent years has been the subject of much attention and many headlines. What has received far less attention is another increase: the parallel rise in the costs of drilling for oil and building the infrastructure necessary to pump it out of the ground. [Read More]
Daniel Yergin
How Different Will Tomorrow Be? Thinking About The Energy Future
The energy business has one of the longest timelines of any industry. Decisions are being made today for oil or natural gas fields that will only begin to flow fifteen years from now. Investors, in the meantime, have to decide where to put their bets on technologies that will take years to come to fruition. [Read More]
Matthew Hick
Air Pollution - Your House May Be Harming Your Family
Kitchen cabinets, furniture, perfume, even candles and air fresheners - they can all contribute to the air pollution in our homes. [Read More]
Kevin Dark
New Computer Recycling Technologies Help Preserve Nature
In this booming age of information technology, no sooner have you used your computer for a year, than you are faced with it becoming out-dated thanks to later versions becoming available that incorporate latest and more cutting edge technologies. [Read More]
Ba Kiwanuka
Global Warming: Is The Bush II Government Pursuing A Policy Of Genocide By Proxy
In World War II the Nazi's genocide weapon-of-choice was hydrogen cyanide gas, what irony that in this upcoming genocide, gas too is the weapon of choice; carbon dioxide gas! [Read More]