11 companies show interest to invest in Afghan oil, gas fields - Xinhua

Tue, 06/16/2009 - 02:05 — admin


11 companies show interest to invest in Afghan oil, gas fields
Xinhua, China
KABUL, June 16 (Xinhua) -- The government of Afghanistan, in efforts to attract foreign capital and boost private sector, has put bid on its oil and gas fields in which 11 companies have shown their interest, a local newspaper reported Tuesday. ...


OIL FUTURES: Crude Trades Near Flat On Pullback Worries - Wall Street Journal

Tue, 06/16/2009 - 01:16 — admin


Straits Times
OIL FUTURES: Crude Trades Near Flat On Pullback Worries
Wall Street Journal


Other Voices: Speculators inflate the price of gasoline - The Union of Grass Valley

Tue, 06/16/2009 - 01:06 — admin


Baltimore Sun
Other Voices: Speculators inflate the price of gasoline
The Union of Grass Valley, CA


Solar Satellite Power with Laser Propulsion and Reusable Launch Vehicle

Sun, 06/14/2009 - 09:06 — admin

This is a guest post by Keith Henson.

Could Satellite Solar Power (SSP) solve worldwide energy problems and even sequester serious amounts of carbon dioxide? In this post, I look at SSP built with laser propulsion and a new Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) combination, since this approach seems to be lower cost than other approaches and still could produce a huge amount of electric power. If there is enough electric power, some of it might even be used to sequester carbon dioxide by converting it to synthetic oil.


The Dubious Lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador - Part 1

Sun, 06/14/2009 - 07:50 — admin

[Editor's note by Super G] The Oil Drum staff consists of a diverse set of voices. The story that follows is one staff member's perspective. Other perspectives on this case may be posted in the future.

Recently, a fraudulent lawsuit against Dole was dismissed. According to the WSJ,


Right Sizing the Economy: Can Herman Daly's Prescription for a Steady State Economy Accomplish this Task?

Sat, 06/13/2009 - 16:06 — admin

This is a guest post from RogerK, a hardware engineer from San Jose California who thinks and writes about the finite world paradigms which will be needed to replace the 'no limits' paradigm which exists as the cultural norm of modern industrial society. Tonights post expands on a comment he made in last weeks guest essay from Herman Daly on a Steady State Economy. Roger previously has written a related essay on TOD here, and a follow up here.


Floating Offshore Wind Power Update

Sat, 06/13/2009 - 08:59 — admin

I did a post last year on the potential for floating offshore wind power, which looked at a number of different prototypes at various stages of development.