Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mario Osava SÃO PAULO, May 18, 2012 (IPS) – Energy integration in South America will be a reality "in the medium to long term," driven by hydropower and drawing on Brazil’s experience, predicts Altino Ventura Filho, secretary of planning in this country’s Ministry of Mines and Energy. [...]
Top 5 Figures Influencing Renewable Energy in the U.S.
May 3, 2012 By
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By Jen Alic of Oilprice.com As Oilprice.com embarks on its Top 5 series, we thought it expedient to begin with our take on the key figures shaping and influencing U.S. renewable energy efforts, not least because the issue of energy security is being prioritized in campaigning ahead of [...]
Argentina’s Critics Get it Wrong Again
April 18, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Originally Published on The Guardian Unlimited, April 18, 2012 See the article on the original website. Mark Weisbrot The Argentine government’s decision to re-nationalize its formerly state-owned oil and gas company, YPF, has been greeted with howls of outrage, threats, forecasts of rage and ruin, and a rude bit of [...]
Standing Down as Iran’s Power Struggle Unfolds
April 16, 2012 By
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By Jen Alic of Oilprice.com A strike on Iran, however limited, would push the current internal power struggle to a premature end that would not be in the US’ best interests – that is the message, whether intentional or not, of the recent "intelligence leak" that has provided [...]
GREECE-CYPRUS-ISRAEL ENERGY TRIANGLE: DYNAMICS AND POTENTIALS IN THE EAST MEDITERRANEAN BASIN
April 15, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Republished with the author’s permission Read the article in the original form on the RIEAS site. Petros Makris-Kourkoulos (RIEAS Research Associate and Energy Security Analyst) In the mid-60s, John F. Kennedy stated the famous geography has made us neighbors, history has made us friends, economics has made us partners and [...]
Shale Gas a Bridge to More Global Warming
January 24, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) – Hundreds of thousands of shale gas wells are being "fracked" in the United States and Canada, allowing large amounts of methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, to escape into the atmosphere, new studies have shown. Shale gas production [...]
Solar Yacht Sails Around the World Powered by Nothing More than the Sun
January 24, 2012 By
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By. James Burgess of Oilprice.com The World Future Energy Summit has recently finished in Abu Dhabi and for me one of the highlights was the Turanor, an impressive solar powered yacht designed and built by Planet Solar. It is the largest boat of its kind to ever sail [...]
Using Ocean Temperature Differences to Create Renewable Energy
January 24, 2012 By
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By. James Burgess of Oilprice.com Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is an idea for creating renewable energy by exploiting the difference in ocean temperatures between the surface and the seabed. The OTEC permit office first opened in 1981 as part of NOAA, America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, [...]
China to Aid Saudi Arabia in Nuclear Power Development
January 21, 2012 By
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By. John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com Ever since the end of World War Two, the U.S. has come to regard Saudi Arabia as almost its exclusive oil producing enclave. In February 1945, after the Yalta Conference with Soviet General Secretary Iosif Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, [...]
Pakistan to Produce Gas – by Burning Underground Coal
January 18, 2012 By
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By. John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com As we start a new year, consider the miserable plight of the average Pakistani electricity consumer. With about 50 per cent less electricity generation capability than the actual demand, Pakistan’s National Grid is facing more than a 5,000-megawatt shortfall in power generation, [...]
