April 2010 Blog Posts (98)

Watch on Wednesday

Added by Geoff Bailey on April 12, 2010 at 7:14pm — 2 Comments

Is there Any Intelligent Life out there?

Today down sunny Florida I noticed gasoline prices were closing in from below to $3.00 a gallon. It’s $2.83 for a gallon of

Regular. So here we are climbing out from the most recent financial

collapse, and things are apparently getting better, as I for one do

believe that things are getting better. This is not to say however, that

the opposing forces to “change”…

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Added by REepedia on April 12, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Chronos Consulting wins landmark RPO bid for major environmental planning, construction and infrastructure organization.

Chronos Consulting wins landmark RPO bid for major environmental planning, construction and infrastructure organization. The Chronos Group now has over 6000 contractors worldwide. For more details on our wind, solar, nuclear, oil , gas and engineering roles contact me here.

Added by Dr Simon Harding on April 12, 2010 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment

Most Barnett Shale facilities release emissions

Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by The News under federal and state open-records laws, plus other reports and studies, reveal a

pattern of emissions of toxic compounds, often including

cancer-causing benzene, from Barnett Shale facilities.

More than 90 percent of the gas-processing plants, compressor stations and wells that agencies have examined with leak-detecting infrared cameras since 2007 were…

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Added by Scott Baker on April 12, 2010 at 12:20pm — No Comments

Congress Launches Investigation Into Gas Drilling Practices

Two of the largest companies involved in natural gas drilling have

acknowledged pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of diesel-based

fluids into the ground in the process of hydraulic

fracturing [1], raising further

concerns that existing state and federal regulations don't adequately

protect drinking water from drilling.

Rep. Henry A.…

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Added by Scott Baker on April 12, 2010 at 12:11pm — No Comments

Researchers harness viruses to split water: Crucial step toward turning water into Hydrogen fuel

A team of MIT researchers has found a novel way to mimic the process by which plants use the power of sunlight to split water and make chemical fuel to power their growth. In this case, the team used a modified virus as a kind of biological scaffold that can assemble the nanoscale components needed to split a water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Splitting is one way to solve the basic problem of solar… Continue

Added by Solar Man on April 11, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Texas Oil Firms Oppose California Climate Law (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/science/earth/08energy.html)

On April 8, 2010, John M. Broder and Clifford Krauss reported in the New York Times: “Several Texas oil companies are bankrolling a petition drive to suspend California’s path-breaking climate change law in a move that may prove a bellwether for national efforts to address global warming.”…

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Added by Barry Stevens on April 11, 2010 at 8:43am — No Comments

appears fracking fluid is going green spread the word

this is what I got:… Continue

Added by Sam Fleet on April 9, 2010 at 10:31am — 2 Comments

Got a few minutes?

I'm not sure if this is supposed to be an optimistic appraisal of the future or a frightening one but now that someone has given the vision form and shape someone will try to make it real.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jU9KzsU0zo&feature=player_embedded

Added by W. Dan Chance on April 8, 2010 at 9:30pm — 7 Comments

Oil Could Give Kiss of Death to Recovery

This week oil climbed to $87 a barrel, its highest level since October 2008 and prompted concerns that triple-digit crude was once again in the offing.

This was after a period of eight months when oil traded between $70 and $80, a narrow band that pleased oil producers without hurting consumers too much.

The latest surge seems to have been prompted by rising…

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Added by Geoff Bailey on April 8, 2010 at 5:13pm — No Comments

U.S. Natural Gas Reserves May Have Doubled, Secretary Chu Says

April 06, 2010, 10:07 AM EDT

By Simon Lomax

April 6 (Bloomberg) -- New natural-gas drilling technologies may have doubled U.S. reserves of the fuel, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said today.

U.S. natural gas reserves have definitely increased by about 30 percent and “probably has doubled,” Chu said in a speech at a conference in Washington hosted by the U.S. Energy Information…

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Added by Geoff Bailey on April 8, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments

We need to change the tone of the conversation - www.REepedia.com is doing just that

For a little over 1-year now I have been reviewing all of the various comments, blogs and reports regarding the renewable and clean energy discussion. Anyone that is truly interested in advancing the use of alternative energies needs to understand that it can actually happen if and only if, they start appealing to individual’s “common sense”.

When spoken about from a Political tone or even from a Social and Environmental voice, people tend not to want to listen. The fact is most people… Continue

Added by REepedia on April 8, 2010 at 11:06am — No Comments

Plant Your Tree Today

Added by Geoff Bailey on April 8, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

Renault-Nissan-Daimler Officially Announce Cooperation on Electric Cars, Smart EV coming in 2013

Nick

Chambers, Gas2.org, April 7th, 2010

Yesterday I brought you…

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Added by W. Dan Chance on April 8, 2010 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

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Here at USA Green Jobs Now.Org our recruiting assessment system streamlines the

recruitment process through its detailed accuracy and allows employers access

to the most… Continue

Added by RON VOGT on April 7, 2010 at 7:52pm — No Comments

Broad Scope of EPA’s Fracturing Study Raises Ire of Gas Industry

Will the EPA get it right this time? An ambitious new study of fracking may finally provide some answer, but THREE YEARS?! Why not 6 months?
http://www.propublica.org/feature/broad-scope-of-epas-fracturing-study-raises-ire-of-gas-industry

Added by Scott Baker on April 7, 2010 at 5:16pm — No Comments