Al Fin runs a number of very successful blogs that cover, energy, technology, news and politics.
The Earth is deluged with vast amounts of energy from the sun on a constant basis. Humans have utilised solar energy from their earliest days,…
Methane hydrate is methane that is locked in ice. Huge amounts of methane are available for economical production via gas hydrates as soon as humans…
The new gas to liquids plant in Qatar is the equivalent of a new giant oil field, in terms of production. But rather than producing…
Andrea Rossi and partner Professor Sergio Focardi recently announced to the world that they have created a cold fusion device which produces more energy than…
The below infographic takes an unbiased look at the current situation with peak oil, oil consumption and declining fossil fuel reserves.Source: CarSortThis graphic presents a…
Common wisdom assumes that commodity prices, including oil prices, will continue to rise on exponential demand from emerging nations, such as China, India, Brazil, Turkey,…
The images below are taken from a report released last week by Wood MacKenzie, looking at the impact of relaxing just a few of President…
While the US Obama administration carries on a de facto offshore oil moratorium, Brazil is rushing to develop its own vast offshore petroleum resources. Brazil…
The most activist Department of the Interior in our nation's history is trying to change the rules and seize from Exxon Mobil one of the…
Within the next year, the Kremlin is expected to make its claim to the United Nations in a bold move to annex about 380,000 square…
Canada needs US natural gas to help produce its bitumen oil sands. As oil sands production ratchets up from 1.5 million barrels per day to…
The key factor that will determine Russia’s collapse will be the price of oil. Five years ago, a balanced budget required only $30 per barrel…
The reserve limits for coal, for China as well as the rest of the world, can be postponed for several generations if the technology to…
Canadian oil sands producers are making progress on many fronts, to produce a cleaner and more environmentally friendly product, in ever greater quantities. Brian Wang…
As the price of petroleum edges up in fits and starts, booms and busts, substitution products are coming on board to replace petroleum in many…
After the Fukushima nuclear crisis -- triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami -- Japan has been strongly divided on nuclear power. Many Japanese will…
Marine ecosystems are an untapped resource that account for over 50% of global biomass and seaweeds themselves are capable of producing more biomass per square…
For humans to enjoy a clean and abundant energy future, they will need to move to energy from nuclear reactions -- which means nuclear fission,…
800 million people live in Sub-Saharan Africa and a third of them don’t have enough food. By 2050, an estimated 1.95 billion people will be…
Many billions of dollars have been spent on large scale fusion efforts such as the National Ignition Facility in Livermore or ITER in France. But…