Olieramp in de Golf van Mexico: Gevaar voor kust van Louisiana e. Geschreven op 23-4-2010 - Erik van Erne. Geplaatst in Milieu , Natuur {*style:<b> Update 20 september 2010: Zo, de klus is eindelijk geklaard. De olieput is definitief afgesloten iets meer dan vijf maanden na de fatale explosie. Helaas is daarmee wel een hoofdstuk uit het boek afgesloten, maar het boek zelf is nog lang niet dicht. Source: New York Times. FYI: Petrosun to Start Commercial Operation of. PetroSun, Inc (PINK: PSUD) announced that their Rio Hondo, Texas algae farm will commence operations on April 1, 2008 as PetroSun's initial commercial algae-to-biofuels facility.
The current algae farm consists of 1,100 acres of saltwater ponds that the company projects will produce a minimum of 4.4 million gallons of algal oil and 110 million pounds of biomass on an annual basis. The company has dedicated 20 acres of ponds for a proposed algae derived JP8 jet fuel research and development program. The Rio Hondo algae farm will be expanded in the future to provide the feedstock required by present or proposed company owned or joint ventured biodiesel and ethanol refineries. The Company plans to construct or acquire additional plants in the Gulf Coast region that are reachable via barge up the Mississippi River and its tributaries. The previously announced Bridgeport, Alabama refinery will receive algal oil feedstock from this distribution program.
Microgeneration could rival nuclear power, report shows. British buildings equipped with solar, wind and other micro power equipment could generate as much electricity in a year as five nuclear power stations, a government-backed industry report showed today.
Commissioned by the Department for Business, Energy and Regulatory Reform (DBERR), the report says that if government chose to be as ambitious as some other countries, a combination of loans, grants and incentives could lead to nearly 10m microgeneration systems being installed by 2020. Such a large scale switch to microrenewable energy could save 30m tonnes of CO2 – the equivalent of nearly 5% of all UK electricity. The report estimates that there are nearly 100,000 microgeneration units already installed in Britain. Nearly 90,000 of these are solar water heaters, with limited numbers of biomass boilers, photovoltaic panels, heat pumps, fuel cells, and small-scale hydroelectric and windpower schemes.
Oil prices: Green light from the black stuff. It will come as little comfort to many motorists blenching at the pumps today at having to pay 130p or more a litre to fill up their cars with unleaded petrol, but the surge in the price of oil may not all be bad news.
Potentially, at least, and if the right lessons are drawn, today's threat could be tomorrow's opportunity. Be clear, however. The 15% jump in the cost of crude oil since the new year will lead to higher inflation and lower growth, particularly if central banks respond by pushing up interest rates. If sustained, this will be the fifth significant rise in oil prices since 1973, and each of the previous four was followed by a recession.
This will have political consequences too. Oil prices are high for three reasons: demand, particularly from China, has been strong; the vast quantities of cheap dollars in the global financial markets have encouraged speculation in commodities; and political unrest in north Africa and the Middle East has led to fears of disrupted supplies. UK facing 1970s-style oil shock which could cost economy £45bn – Huhne. A sign reading 'Sorry No Petrol' outside a service station during a petrol shortage on February 1978. Photograph: Pete Primarello/Getty Images Britain is facing a 1970s-style oil price shock that could cost the UK economy £45bn over two years, the climate and energy secretary, Chris Huhne, is expected to warn in his first intervention on the issue since the start of Middle East political crisis. In Thursday's keynote speech on the impact of the oil crisis, Huhne argued that an $100 (£61) a barrel price for oil transforms the economics of climate change in Britain.
He disclosed the Department of Energy and Climate Change's (Decc) economists have warned that if the oil price rise turns into a 1970s-style shock the cumulative loss to the UK economy would be worth £45bn over two years. Drumbeat: May 31, 2010. Lawmakers blast oil firms' drilling plans. Crisis Commons » Blog Archive » Meet Oil Reporter. Meet Oil Reporter, an open data initiative of CrisisCommons.
This suite of tools and resources encourages response organizations to capture and share data with the public as they response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. This initiative provides response organizations with the ability to adopt and customize Oil Reporter for their own use, add additional data collection elements and provide technical assistance to help response organizations aggregate and visualize their data into products for use in response and recovery efforts. The Oil Reporter mobile application is available on the Android and iPhone platforms.
It features the ability to capture geotagged photographs, video, text and basic data elements such the presence of oil and distressed wildlife. The application also provides official phone numbers on where to report oiled beaches, wildlife as well as volunteer information links. Oil Reporter uses an open API for greater information sharing. TEDxOilSpill. Are your ideas worth $3 million?