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Oil is currently at $100 or so per barrel. The current reason for the high price is instability in Middle Eastern countries like Libya. In addition, demand for oil is increasing at a time when new oil discoveries are declining. In the United States (and many other parts of the world), coal is abundant. What [...]
There are now three companies, with three different technologies, that are claiming they can eliminate fossil fuels and replace them with something green and much less expensive. We have already talked about Joule Unlimited, which claims it can use modified E. coli bacteria to create diesel fuel at a $30/barrel equivalent price: The impossible has [...]
U.S. Navy Rethinks Fuel Tank Convoys
by Allison Loudermilk | October 15, 2010
Fossil fuels are under attack these days — literally. In October 2010 alone, attackers have targeted NATO fuel convoys in Pakistan on six different occasions, killing seven people and destroying dozens of oil tankers, according to Nasir Habib’s CNN story. In one instance, 54 different tankers went down, Habib reports.
When you think about the great, big lumbering trucks and factor in some basic military strategy, it’s easy to see why the vehicles are picked off.
Modern civilization depends on energy from fossil fuels. But in a world of increasing consumption and decreasing resources, how long will fossil fuel supplies last? Tune in and learn more about the debate over peak oil in this podcast.
As members of Congress pour over a U.S. climate bill centered on a cap-and-trade system, a small collection of idyllic atolls in the Indian Ocean is busy with its own ambitious plan. According to the Economist, the president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, announced in March that his country would attempt to stop using fossil fuels by 2020.
You asked: Why can’t cars run on cheaper cleaner fuels? Why must they run only on fossil fuels? — Allan, Hollywood, Calif. Marshall answered: The short answer is: There isn’t a fuel cheaper than fossil fuels. For example, to make hydrogen you have to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which takes energy, which makes [...]
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