Biuofuels came under attack at a conference in Washington DC over the weekend, as poor nations blame the Western focus on ethanol production for rising food prices that are causing riots and political instability in some parts of the...
Archive - April 2008
The New York Times has an opinion article by Paul Krugman that paints a terrifying picture of the global food crisis in relation to energy and climate change. Krugman says that over the past few years the prices of wheat, corn, rice and other basic...
I have seen various posts and have heard a few talking heads talk about how higher gas prices are not reducing demand. Looking at the energy.gov This week in Petroleum site, I have to disagree. First look at the trends and ranges in the graphs. ...
The Press Association writes that Professor Harry Gray, founding director of the Beckman Institute at the California Institute of Technology, told attendants of the 235th national meeting of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans that...
A very peculiar type of legal action between people with trees and those with solar panels has erupted in California, all because of the Solar Shade Act. To cut a long story short, the act protects those people with solar panels from shading made by...
