Peak oil theorists don't know Jack

“The industry is still very capable of coming up with new ways of producing oil,” says Michael Lynch, a prominent opponent of the notion of peak oil — that global supplies of crude are set for a marked decline.

Meet Vinod Khosla, ethanol evangelist

BP appoints ombudsman to hear complaints

Farming for Energy

As eco-friendly energy becomes more cost-efficient, convenient, and feasible, the time may be right for a growth spurt

Dip in gas prices may lift entire economy: Gasoline prices fell by more than 30 cents a gallon last month, and everyone stands to benefit.

Tories want road pricing for all lorries driving in Britain

Heavyweight harangues Japan on oil law reform

Watari, chairman of the country's biggest integrated oil company, warns that unless the Alternative Energy Law and the New Energy Law are replaced they will "obstruct and crush all of the energy technology developments we could see in the foreseeable future".

Oil-rich Iraq forced to import fuel to beat shortages

BANGLADESH: Load-shedding deepens in city. Dsepite protests, the blackouts are getting worse. Supply is 39% short of what they need.

Power Shortage Cuts Alcoa, Ghana's Aluminium Output

Cairn delays India oilfield start

Cairn Energy has again put back the start date for production at its main Indian oilfield.

The firm blamed the delay on slower-than-expected pipeline building.

The Mangala oilfield should now come online in 2009, rather than in 2008 as predicted. Cairn had initially forecast it would start pumping oil in 2007.

Chad eyes bigger share of its oil profits

DAKAR, SENEGAL – Describing Chad's profits from a multibillion-dollar pipeline as "crumbs," President Idriss Deby is trying to grab a larger slice of the petrodollar pie, joining the trend of "resource nationalism" in vogue from Algeria to Venezuela.

Dr Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari and the four phases of transition

"The fact of being in 'Post-Peak' will bring about explosive disruptions we know little about, and which are extremely difficult to foresee. And the shock waves from these explosions rippling throughout the financial and industrial infrastructure could have myriad unintended consequences for which we have no precedent and little experience."

Advocates laud safety of new nuclear reactors

Energy costs force server rethink

For most of the history of commercial IT, servers have been measured largely by one metric: performance related to cost of acquisition. However, that equation, often known by the Americanism “bang per buck”, is now being challenged by a new metric called “performance per watt”.

The rise of performance per watt as a concern among IT buyers is a recognition that energy costs and, in particular, the power required by volume servers, have become important contributors to overall IT expense, even if the bill is still more likely to be handed to facilities managers than IT chiefs.