Energy Balance
Energy Balance is a series of essays on the matter of future energy
provision for the world, particularly against the backdrop of "Peak
Oil", which the author Chris Rhodes has dubbed the "Oil Dearth" Era
when supplies of the cheap light crude oil, on which the modern age
of globalisation has been built, begin to run-short. All aspects are
considered: pollution, nuclear power, nuclear waste, global warming
(and its reality), renewable energy, coal liquefaction, the myth of
the putatuive "hydrogen economy", biofuel production, and the
essential underlying solution of energy saving on a huge scale, by
relocalising civilization into smaller essentially self-sustaining
communities provided for by local farms and businesses.
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When I heard of a coffee-powered car I envisaged the tank being filled with the liquid beverage from a cafetiere. This is not what is meant, however, and the fuel is ground coffee combusted in a fluid
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It is concluded that a plausible cause of a series of small earthquakes in Texas during 2008 - 2009 is saltwater pumped deep into the earth to recover natural gas, though this explanation is not def
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Arrow Energy, the owner of the biggest reserves of gas trapped in seams of Australian coal, has been offered 2 billion by Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina. The gas, principally methane, is a cleaner
Posted 3 weeks ago
Combined output of North Sea oil and gas has fallen considerably from its heyday at the end of the 1970s to 2.48 million barrels a day last year, a 6% fall from the previous year. It is convenient to
Posted 3 weeks ago
On Monday, the price of a barrel of oil reached above $80 in New York. The cause was a combination of fears over supply as a strike hit the French oil industry and the vexed issue of uranium enrichmen
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Posted 7 weeks ago
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