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First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

University Shambles: How to Ruin the Best University System in the World.

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Entities: Margaret Thatcher, Education, University of London

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Picturing a Tonne of Carbon, and Energy from Dog-Excrement.

The question of, "what does a tonne of carbon really mean?", was put to me last night at a meeting of Transition Reading, a member of the rapidly growing Transition Towns movement, which I belong to, and which aims to achieve resilience at the level of ... [Published Energy Balance - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Enthalpy, Combustion

First reported Mar 17 2013 - Updated Mar 17 2013 - 1 reports

Global Warming is Nonsense - According to the "Daily Mail."

The Daily Mail, having recently published an interview with Nigel Lawson, which attempts to convince its sentient readership that Peak Oil is nonsense http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2244822/Thought-running-fossil-fuels-New-technology-means-Britain-U-S-tap-undreamed-reserves-gas-oil.html ... [Published Energy Balance - Mar 17 2013]

Entities: Global Warming/Climate Change, Peak Oil, Nigel Lawson, Climate, Thermal Energy

First reported Mar 11 2013 - Updated Mar 11 2013 - 1 reports

Wind for Hydrogen - An Update.

This is an update of some numbers from an older posting http://ergobalance.blogspot.co.uk/2007/10/ulf-bossel-platinum-and-hydrogen.html in light of the larger commercial wind turbines that are now available http://ergobalance.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/shaky-foundations-for-offshore-wind.html ... [Published Energy Balance - Mar 11 2013]

Entities: Hydrogen, Electrolysis, Electron, Fuel Cell

First reported Feb 19 2013 - Updated Feb 19 2013 - 1 reports

Governments Must Cooperate for "Power-Down" as Oil Supplies Decline.

Decline in output from the world's oil fields is averaging 5% per year http://aspousa.org/peak-oil-reference/peak-oil-data/oil-depletion/ , with some speculation that we may have reached the global production limit for conventional crude oil http://www.skepticalscience.com/Climate-Policy-Peak-Oil_U-Washington.html ... [Published Energy Balance - Feb 19 2013]

Entities: Food Production, Peak Oil, Aquifer, Inertia

First reported Feb 06 2013 - Updated Feb 06 2013 - 1 reports

International Energy Agency

The Petroleum Rollercoaster.

I wrote the following in a previous posting http://ergobalance.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/can-solar-fuels-avert-imminent.html but there are a number of points of issue, which I shall now address. In particular, the aspect of the apparent rate of decline ... [Published Energy Balance - Feb 06 2013]

Entities: Crude Oil, Liquidation, Petroleum, International Energy Agency, Oil Production

First reported Feb 01 2013 - Updated Feb 01 2013 - 1 reports

The Achilles' Heel of Algal Biofuels - Peak Phosphate. - An Update.

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Entities: Phosphate, Algae, Phosphorus, Biofuels, Diesel

First reported Jan 31 2013 - Updated Jan 31 2013 - 1 reports

Energy Institute: Potential for Hydropower on the River Thames.

Entities: Hydro Power, Energy Institute, Environment Agency, Environment

First reported Jan 30 2013 - Updated Jan 30 2013 - 1 reports

Reading: English Town to Adopt Biogas Buses.

Reading is the town where I live, in the south east of England, and is famous for the three Bs that used to be produced here - beer, bulbs and biscuits - and probably also for its gaol, famously written about by Oscar Wilde, in his "The Ballad of Reading ... [Published Energy Balance - Jan 30 2013]

Entities: Biogas, Oscar Wilde, Compressed Natural Gas, Methane

First reported Jan 24 2013 - Updated Jan 24 2013 - 1 reports

Low Energy Light Bulbs Not So "Green" After All?

Making choices about the kind of light bulbs we should be using, on the simple basis of energy consumption, and hence carbon emissions, may be a little short-sighted. Thus, the old fashioned incandescent bulbs are no longer commonly on sale, though there ... [Published Energy Balance - Jan 24 2013]

Entities: Joseph Swan, Carbon Emissions, Toxic, Copper, Recycling

First reported Jan 23 2013 - Updated Jan 23 2013 - 1 reports

Gold Mining in Space... has no one heard of EROEI?

The prospect of exploration in space for minerals has been the substance of science fiction, but in the face of a rapid depletion of non-renewable resources, and a likely downturn in funding for space projects in general, in these times of austerity, ... [Published Energy Balance - Jan 23 2013]

Entities: Planetoid, Mining, Platinum, Communications Satellite, Rare Earth

First reported Dec 29 2012 - Updated Dec 29 2012 - 1 reports

Fracking Stirs-up Fears Over Prehistoric Radioactive Salts.

It is found that high amounts of salts, including those of barium and radium, are present in the flowback waters from late-end fracking operations, leading to fears over potential groundwater contamination. The amount of the various salts is greater than ... [Published Energy Balance - Dec 29 2012]

Entities: Hydraulic Fracturing, Salts, Barium, Radium

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University Shambles: How to Ruin the Best Unive... [Published Energy Balance - May 11 2013]
Picturing a Tonne of Carbon, and Energy from Do... [Published Energy Balance - Apr 30 2013]
Global Warming is Nonsense - According to the "... [Published Energy Balance - Mar 17 2013]
Wind for Hydrogen - An Update. [Published Energy Balance - Mar 11 2013]
Governments Must Cooperate for "Power-Down" as ... [Published Energy Balance - Feb 19 2013]
The Petroleum Rollercoaster. [Published Energy Balance - Feb 06 2013]
The Achilles' Heel of Algal Biofuels - Peak Pho... [Published Energy Balance - Feb 01 2013]
Energy Institute: Potential for Hydropower on t... [Published Energy Balance - Jan 31 2013]
Reading: English Town to Adopt Biogas Buses. [Published Energy Balance - Jan 30 2013]
Low Energy Light Bulbs Not So "Green" After All? [Published Energy Balance - Jan 24 2013]
Gold Mining in Space... has no one heard of EROEI? [Published Energy Balance - Jan 23 2013]
Fracking Stirs-up Fears Over Prehistoric Radioa... [Published Energy Balance - Dec 29 2012]
The Start of a New Cycle [Published Energy Balance - Dec 22 2012]
(Lord) Nigel Lawson, in The Daily Mail… “Peak O... [Published Energy Balance - Dec 09 2012]
A Solar Cell Made From Carbon. [Published Energy Balance - Dec 05 2012]

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University Shambles: How to Ruin the Best Unive... [Published Energy Balance - May 11 2013] br />!--[if gte mso 10]> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; ...
Picturing a Tonne of Carbon, and Energy from Do... [Published Energy Balance - Apr 30 2013] The question of, "what does a tonne of carbon really mean?", was put to me last night at a meeting of Transition Reading, a member of the rapidly growing Transition Towns movement, which I belong to, and which aims to achieve resilience at the level of ...
Global Warming is Nonsense - According to the "... [Published Energy Balance - Mar 17 2013] The Daily Mail, having recently published an interview with Nigel Lawson, which attempts to convince its sentient readership that Peak Oil is nonsense http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2244822/Thought-running-fossil-fuels-New-technology-means-Britain-U-S-tap-undreamed-reserves-gas-oil.html ...
Wind for Hydrogen - An Update. [Published Energy Balance - Mar 11 2013] This is an update of some numbers from an older posting http://ergobalance.blogspot.co.uk/2007/10/ulf-bossel-platinum-and-hydrogen.html in light of the larger commercial wind turbines that are now available http://ergobalance.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/shaky-foundations-for-offshore-wind.html ...
Governments Must Cooperate for "Power-Down" as ... [Published Energy Balance - Feb 19 2013] Decline in output from the world's oil fields is averaging 5% per year http://aspousa.org/peak-oil-reference/peak-oil-data/oil-depletion/ , with some speculation that we may have reached the global production limit for conventional crude oil http://www.skepticalscience.com/Climate-Policy-Peak-Oil_U-Washington.html ...