Alternative Energy and Renewable Fuels are today's headliners and attention grabbers. I have been doing quite a bit of research on the state of play for the future of fuels, I wanted to see what the advances were and what the possible impacts and hindrances to their widespread deployment really are, sans green-washing and hype. So I took a little surf over the Internet and looked at many hours of amazingly boring videos of lectures and focus groups on the subjects, pain I endured to bring you this update on the state of play in the field of alternative fuels.

I really wanted to know where we are headed and how fast and what could trip us up along the way, now I am no expert in this field and I would greatly appreciate any input you, my readers, can provide that covers anything I missed this time through.

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Evil oil companies! Record prices for gasoline in the US have prompted even the greenest amongst the government to pause their green washing of America to pounce on the oil companies for allegedly doing what they wanted, getting people to drive less. Carbon Taxes, Cap and Trade will all work to raise fossil fuel prices and force consumers to change their habits, this is the basic premise of these policies, so now as the prices rise and they see the real effect that their policies would have had if enacted, they seem to be singing another tune.

So if the market is doing for you what you were getting resistance from others to do yourself, I am forced to ask, "What is your beef with oil prices?"

I wait patiently for the driving season increase in fuel prices here in BC which will happen at the exact same time our now famous Carbon Tax wi ... Read More »

I am kind of at a loss for words here, I guess the simple thing would be just to attempt to explain what is happening. The "scientists" over at RealClimate.com have challenged the German climate modellers who recently published their "peer reviewed" paper on the results of their new climate model runs to a wager on the validity of their predictions. This new paper Keenlyside et al. 2008 makes some short term, single decade,  long predictions regarding the global combined land and ocean surface temperature record. The basis of the wager is simple; Read More »

I do not know about you but I hate being put on hold, or "Ignore" as I call it, when you are trying to reach someone who is much too busy to be bothered with you. This seems to be the case with Global Warming and the Earth. Seems the planet is far too busy with real climate issues to be distracted by the AGW theory, much to the dismay of the climate faithful world-wide who are now simply falling back to the climate change argument that they set-up for just this purpose.

Recently in the journal Nature German climate scientists published new results of a coupled ocean-atmospheric model that now shows a decade out prediction, the result is cooler temperatures until at least 2015. This is similar to the last run that predicted cooler temperatures until 2009 followed by a 50/50 chance of renewed warming that came out in 2005. This re-modelling of the climate is starting to be ... Read More »