Al Fin runs a number of very successful blogs that cover, energy, technology, news and politics.
USGS estimates 500,000 MWe of EGS geothermal resource potential lies beneath the western United States. This is approximately half of the current installed electric power…
Obama's regime and faux environmentalists around the globe have been gung ho over big wind power farms for years now. And every time anyone takes…
"Peak oil in North America is likely not to be peak" given $90 per barrel prices and new technology that makes it easier to recover…
India's Institute of Chemical Technology is aiming to reduce the cost of producing oils from algae from Rs 500 per litre to roughly Rs20 per…
North America contains a huge portion of global hydrocarbons, when unconventionals are taken into account. As the price of oil creeps ever higher over time,…
“The estimates for how much oil there is in the world continue to increase,” according to William M Colton, Exxon Mobil’s vice president for corporate…
Brazil's quest for extreme oil may cost as much as US$ 1 trillion. That is a lot of money to invest in a such a…
The energy we get from coal today comes from the energy that plants absorbed from the sun millions of years ago. All living plants store…
While Russia is rich in oil and gas resources, the Russian government in 2008 had to introduce a US$4.2 billion tax cut at mid-year to…
North Dakota's Bakken shale oil deposits were supposed to have only 4.3 billion barrels of proven reserves. But that number keeps rising -- as do…
Mike Mickelbart, an assistant professor of horticulture; Mike Hasegawa, a professor of horticulture; and Chal Yul Yoo, a horticulture graduate student, found that a genetic…
With the price of oil hovering above $70 a barrel for over a year -- and around $90 a barrel for several weeks -- oil…
Jorge Pinon, an energy expert at Florida International University in Miami, said that Venezuela's state oil company has suffered from a lack of adequate technology…
Estonia's largest oil shale mining company, Eesti Energia, reported the largest oil shale production figures in 18 years for 2010 - 17 million tons, up…
Using marginal lands not suitable for food crops, 50% of the world's liquid fuels can be produced, according to U. of Illinois scientists. Published in…
First British Airways, and now Qantas are teaming with the Solena Group to build commercial plasma gasification and Fischer-Tropsch plants to create synthetic jet fuel…
The amount of money being spent on climate change research this year is astounding. I urge you to read the document yourself. Here is the…
Right now, the printing of trillions of dollars by the Federal Reserve is creating another financial bubble. It is supported only by deficit spending, borrowing,…
Four billion pounds of carpet enter waste streams in the U.S. each year, says CEO Ron Simonetti. Five pounds of oil go into a single…
Oil is like any other commodity: if price go up, people will produce more of it to sell. Despite the bleatings of peak oil sheep,…