Stories tagged with "sweden"

Peak Oil and the Environment Day 2 Part 1

Posted by Heading Out on May 10, 2006 - 1:17am
Topic: Policy/Politics
Tags: biofuel, ethanol, nuclear power, peak oil, peak oil and the environment, solar power, sustainable energy forum, sweden, wind [list all tags]

Julian Darley seems to think that the world may be reaching Peak natural Gas. This has considerable impact on likely future supplies of LNG to the US, and to everywhere else for that matter. It was the first statement he made in chairing the last panel of the "Peak Oil and the Environment" Forum in D.C. this afternoon, but it was also the last statement I heard at the meeting. I had to leave for my flight, and with the program running just enough late I missed both it and the last presentation (and me with only 17 pages of notes from today).
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Link roundup: Oil-free Sweden and We Luv Public Transportation

Posted by Yankee on January 27, 2006 - 2:25pm
Topic: Miscellaneous
Tags: alternative energy, public transportation, sweden [list all tags]

I wanted to write fuller posts on both of these, but they've been stagnating in my Bloglines for a while, so I'm just going to put them out there in case you haven't already seen them.

Treehugger had a post earlier this week on Sweden's plans the be the first fossil fuel-free country by 2020. Wow! In just 15 years, an entire first world nation aims to be fossil fuel free! Apparently, the goal is to rid the country of cars that run on gasoline, and heating oil for the home (Sweden has excellent capacity for geothermal home heating).

For the record, I think this is a great idea, and a goal which more countries are probably eventually going to have to consider, but I just don't know if it's going to happen by 2020.

Be sure to catch the comments to this post, many of which come from Swedes. And I personally liked reader Paul's contribution:

I'm curious, I'm sure it's possible to be completely rid of oil for power generation purposes, but is it possible to be completely rid of oil altogether? I'd have thought lubricants and some plastics are still needed and they're made from oil...
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