From thomas at thosmos.com  Sun Oct 14 18:04:48 2007
From: thomas at thosmos.com (Thomas Spellman)
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:04:48 -0700
Subject: [Energy] Pentagon Urges Space-Based Solar Power
Message-ID: <055901c80ec7$624b9360$26e2ba20$@com>

 <http://slashdot.org/> Slashdot

Pentagon Urges Space-Based Solar Power

eldavojohn writes "The Pentagon issued a report indicating that space-based
solar power 'has the potential to help the United States stave off climate
change and avoid future conflicts over oil by harnessing the Sun's power to
provide an essentially inexhaustible supply of clean energy.' The report,
from the Pentagon's National Security Space Office, calls for funding the
development of space-based solar power culminating in 'a platform in
geosynchronous orbit bigger than the international space station and capable
of beaming 5-10 megawatts of power to a receiving station on the ground.'
The Pentagon's interest in such an effort stems from the need to acquire
energy on the battlefield, which today often comes at a painful premium." 

Read <http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/14/2129233&from=rss>
more of this story at Slashdot.

 

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From caver456 at gmail.com  Sun Oct 14 20:11:46 2007
From: caver456 at gmail.com (Tom Grundy)
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:11:46 -0700
Subject: [Energy] Fwd: Canada's natural gas
In-Reply-To: <3C1A23F2-B725-4B34-8243-FBEB87B6D0AA@mountainastrologer.com>
References: <3C1A23F2-B725-4B34-8243-FBEB87B6D0AA@mountainastrologer.com>
Message-ID: <c2317b210710142011l55be635cr7f402ff48564a9e2@mail.gmail.com>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tem Tarriktar <pcurrents at mountainastrologer.com>
Date: Oct 12, 2007 9:03 AM
Subject: Canada's natural gas
To: Rick Hartmann <sunwolf48 at sbcglobal.net>, Tom Grundy
<caver456 at gmail.com>, Janaia Donaldson <janaia at peakmoment.tv>


Check out this bit of news and the following postings...looks like
the tar sands are in trouble due to declining gas production.
Make sure you get ALL of the url below.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?
az=view_all&address=115x116312


From caver456 at gmail.com  Fri Oct 19 10:12:03 2007
From: caver456 at gmail.com (Tom Grundy)
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:12:03 -0700
Subject: [Energy] important precedent from Grist
Message-ID: <c2317b210710191012m37d0bb45o780623103ab4f2ef@mail.gmail.com>

*In today's Grist:  it's an amazing precedent, as are the other reaasons
they list that coal plants have been denied.  Interesting parallel to
hesitation on the mine due to its energy consumption:


Coming in From the Coal *
*Kansas denies permit for coal-fired power plant due to concern over CO2
emissions *

 The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Thursday became the
first government agency in the United States to reject a permit for
construction of a coal-fired power plant based on its carbon dioxide
emissions, saying such emissions could harm human health and the
environment. The final decision rested with secretary of the KDHE, Roderick
Bremby, who said, "I believe it would be irresponsible to ignore emerging
information about the contribution of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse
gases to climate change and the potential harm to our environment and health
if we do nothing." Sunflower Electric Power wanted to build two 700-megawatt
generating units that together would have emitted some 11 million tons of
carbon dioxide a year. Opponents hope instead for a mix of wind power and
natural-gas power plants. And while the Kansas slapdown is an important
first, at least 16 other coal plants across the U.S. have been denied for
other reasons, including investor uncertainty about future U.S. climate
legislation as well as higher construction and labor costs.

[ email<http://lists.grist.org/t?r=2&c=1678&l=16&ctl=1306E:603DB36EDBAE95677C2522D191879D5F>|
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The Kansas City
Star<http://lists.grist.org/t?r=2&c=1678&l=16&ctl=1305A:603DB36EDBAE95677C2522D191879D5F>,
Reuters<http://lists.grist.org/t?r=2&c=1678&l=16&ctl=13049:603DB36EDBAE95677C2522D191879D5F>,
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From pcurrents at mountainastrologer.com  Sun Oct 21 21:03:18 2007
From: pcurrents at mountainastrologer.com (Tem Tarriktar)
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:03:18 -0700
Subject: [Energy] German Energy Group predicts 7%/yr. rate of decrease
References: <471c1f55.1c99220a.4b00.ffffb386SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com>
Message-ID: <06240D97-4748-405E-AA79-4130F1B5FF34@mountainastrologer.com>

An important news item on Peak Oil.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Dennis Brumm <brumm at brumm.com>
> Date: October 21, 2007 8:56:03 PM PDT
> To: nocalpcn at googlegroups.com
> Subject: [nocalpcn] German Energy Group predicts 7%/yr. rate of  
> decrease
> Reply-To: nocalpcn at googlegroups.com
>
> An article from "tomorrow" in the Guardian (UK). This is not good  
> news if the 7% decrease proves true:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,,2196435,00.html? 
> gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
>
> Steep decline in oil production brings risk of war and unrest, says  
> new study
>
> ? Output peaked in 2006 and will fall 7% a year
> ? Decline in gas, coal and uranium also predicted
>
> Ashley Seager
> Monday October 22, 2007
> The Guardian
>
> World oil production has already peaked and will fall by half as  
> soon as 2030, according to a report which also warns that extreme  
> shortages of fossil fuels will lead to wars and social breakdown.
>
> The German-based Energy Watch Group will release its study in  
> London today saying that global oil production peaked in 2006 -  
> much earlier than most experts had expected. The report, which  
> predicts that production will now fall by 7% a year, comes after  
> oil prices set new records almost every day last week, on Friday  
> hitting more than $90 (?44) a barrel.
>
> "The world soon will not be able to produce all the oil it needs as  
> demand is rising while supply is falling. This is a huge problem  
> for the world economy," said Hans-Josef Fell, EWG's founder and the  
> German MP behind the country's successful support system for  
> renewable energy.
>
> The report's author, Joerg Schindler, said its most alarming  
> finding was the steep decline in oil production after its peak,  
> which he says is now behind us.
>
> The results are in contrast to projections from the International  
> Energy Agency, which says there is little reason to worry about oil  
> supplies at the moment.
>
> However, the EWG study relies more on actual oil production data  
> which, it says, are more reliable than estimates of reserves still  
> in the ground. The group says official industry estimates put  
> global reserves at about 1.255 gigabarrels - equivalent to 42  
> years' supply at current consumption rates. But it thinks the  
> figure is only about two thirds of that.
>
> Global oil production is currently about 81m barrels a day - EWG  
> expects that to fall to 39m by 2030. It also predicts significant  
> falls in gas, coal and uranium production as those energy sources  
> are used up.
>
> Britain's oil production peaked in 1999 and has already dropped by  
> half to about 1.6 million barrels a day.
>
> The report presents a bleak view of the future unless a radically  
> different approach is adopted. It quotes the British energy  
> economist David Fleming as saying: "Anticipated supply shortages  
> could lead easily to disturbing scenes of mass unrest as witnessed  
> in Burma this month. For government, industry and the wider public,  
> just muddling through is not an option any more as this situation  
> could spin out of control and turn into a complete meltdown of  
> society."
>
> Mr Schindler comes to a similar conclusion. "The world is at the  
> beginning of a structural change of its economic system. This  
> change will be triggered by declining fossil fuel supplies and will  
> influence almost all aspects of our daily life."
>
> Jeremy Leggett, one of Britain's leading environmentalists and the  
> author of Half Gone, a book about "peak oil" - defined as the  
> moment when maximum production is reached, said that both the UK  
> government and the energy industry were in "institutionalised  
> denial" and that action should have been taken sooner.
>
> "When I was an adviser to government, I proposed that we set up a  
> taskforce to look at how fast the UK could mobilise alternative  
> energy technologies in extremis, come the peak," he said. "Other  
> industry advisers supported that. But the government prefers to  
> sleep on without even doing a contingency study. For those of us  
> who know that premature peak oil is a clear and present danger, it  
> is impossible to understand such complacency."
>
> Mr Fell said that the world had to move quickly towards the massive  
> deployment of renewable energy and to a dramatic increase in energy  
> efficiency, both as a way to combat climate change and to ensure  
> that the lights stayed on. "If we did all this we may not have an  
> energy crisis."
>
> He accused the British government of hypocrisy. "Tony Blair and  
> Gordon Brown have talked a lot about climate change but have not  
> brought in proper policies to drive up the use of renewables," he  
> said. "This is why they are left talking about nuclear and carbon  
> capture and storage. "
>
> Yesterday, a spokesman for the Department of Business and  
> Enterprise said: "Over the next few years global oil production and  
> refining capacity is expected to increase faster than demand. The  
> world's oil resources are sufficient to sustain economic growth for  
> the foreseeable future. The challenge will be to bring these  
> resources to market in a way that ensures sustainable, timely,  
> reliable and affordable supplies of energy."
>
> The German policy, which guarantees above-market payments to  
> producers of renewable power, is being adopted in many countries -  
> but not Britain, where renewables generate about 4% of the  
> country's electricity and 2% of its overall energy needs.
>
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From caver456 at gmail.com  Mon Oct 22 11:02:00 2007
From: caver456 at gmail.com (Tom Grundy)
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:02:00 -0700
Subject: [Energy] time to sue
Message-ID: <c2317b210710221102p3c8a575ak283878ad68a9291d@mail.gmail.com>

*From today's Grist:


Catch a Waiver and You're Sittin' on Top of the World *
*California to sue EPA to force decision on vehicle-emissions waiver *

 California is expected to follow through on its
threat<http://lists.grist.org/t?r=2&c=1689&l=16&ctl=131C0:603DB36EDBAE95678F6A6A7452801694>to
sue the
U.S. EPA this week for not yet deciding whether to give the state the waiver
it needs to implement its 2002 law limiting greenhouse-gas emissions from
cars. The state's law requires a nearly 30 percent reduction in
greenhouse-gas emissions by 2016, which experts say can only realistically
be achieved by upping vehicle fuel-economy -- something the automakers argue
can only be set by the feds. California applied for the waiver in December
2005; the EPA has promised to make a decision on it by the end of the year,
but state officials are skeptical. State attorney general Jerry Brown said
of the EPA, "they require continuous, persistent pressure" -- just like a
wound. The suit will likely be filed on Wednesday in a Washington, D.C.,
federal court.

[ email<http://lists.grist.org/t?r=2&c=1689&l=16&ctl=131BC:603DB36EDBAE95678F6A6A7452801694>|
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From caver456 at gmail.com  Sun Oct 28 19:00:09 2007
From: caver456 at gmail.com (Tom Grundy)
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:00:09 -0700
Subject: [Energy] LCV releases Prez Candidates energy stance chart
Message-ID: <c2317b210710281900t19b98203m438e781613522658@mail.gmail.com>

>From Solar Nation:

Presidential Candidates weigh in on Energy Policy

October 10, 2007
The League of Conservation Voters has published a comparison of the
energy policy positions of the 2008 presidential candidates, which
range from environmentally responsible to business-as-usual. What is
startling about the comparison, however, is that some of the
candidates officially hold no articulated position on a subject on
which some other presidential hopefuls have gone to the wall.

... read more and see the chart:
http://www.solar-nation.org/2007/10/10/presidential-candidates-weigh-in-on-energy-policy/


From caver456 at gmail.com  Tue Oct 30 11:50:29 2007
From: caver456 at gmail.com (Tom Grundy)
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:50:29 -0700
Subject: [Energy] Fwd: Sacramento Municipal Utility District Wins DOE Wind
	Power Pioneer Award
In-Reply-To: <24368BD22FA54112B7230B7BB57055DB@ee.doe.gov>
References: <24368BD22FA54112B7230B7BB57055DB@ee.doe.gov>
Message-ID: <c2317b210710301150n310e1713teb8629cc3eabd66b@mail.gmail.com>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Progress Alerts <progessalerts at ee.doe.gov>
Date: Oct 30, 2007 6:52 AM
Subject: Sacramento Municipal Utility District Wins DOE Wind Power Pioneer
Award
To: caver456 at gmail.com

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that Sacramento (CA)
Municipal Utility District (SMUD) is receiving the 2007 Wind Power Pioneer
Award.  The municipal utility was cited for leadership, demonstrated success,
innovation and long history with wind power technologies.



SMUD was one of 14 public power utilities from across the United States that
were nominated for the award this year. The DOE Wind Powering America
program is presenting the award at the American Public Power Association's
2007 Customer Connections Conference in Seattle, WA, on October 30.  The
City of Palo Alto, CA, an award finalist, will also be recognized at that
time.


To view this entire Progress
Alert<http://www.eere.energy.gov/news/progress_alerts/progress_alert.asp?aid=253>

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