Welcome to the May 2008 Green InSight eNewsletter!
Jon Dougal
Editor, Green InSight |
"... as biological knowledge grows, the ethic will shift fundamentally so that everywhere ... the fauna and flora of a country will be thought part of the national heritage as important as its art, [and] its language ..." E.O. Wilson 1984
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Petroleum Products Yielded from One Barrel of Crude Oil in California
Source: California Energy Commission, Fuels Office, PIIRA database. Based on 2004 data.
Date: May 6, 2008
One barrel contains 42 gallons of crude oil. The total volume of products made from crude oil based origins is 48.43 gallons on average - 6.43 gallons greater than the original 42 gallons of crude oil. This represents a "processing gain" due to the additional other petroleum products such as alkylates that are added to the refining process to create the final products.
Additionally, California gasoline contains approximately 5.7 percent by volume of ethanol, a non-petroleum-based additive that brings the total processing gain to 7.59 gallons (or 49.59 total gallons).
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Petro Matad Floats On London’s AIM To Exploit Highly Prospective Assets In Mongolia
Source: Oilbarrel.com
Date: April 29, 2008
And now, for something completely different, a quiz show on London’s Alternative Investment Market and oil companies.
Question (from scowling, grumpy old quiz master): “Is it true that Mongolia is a producing oil province and that Petro Matad, which floated on AIM in the first week of May 2008, is the first purely Mongolian based oil company to be quoted on the London Stock Exchange.”
Answer (from intense furrowed browed but pretty female geology student): “Yes Mongolia does produce oil, not a great amount at the moment, and it ships it by road across the border to China. Mongolia, at this point, May 2008, imports all its refined oil products. But no, it is not true that Petro Matad is the only London Stock Exchange company to be involved in Mongolia.
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White House Behind the Biggest Bull Market of the Next 25 Years
By: Nick Hodge – April 16, 2007
Source: Energy & Capital (www.energyandcapital.com)
If ethanol were a crime, Washington would definitely be charged with aiding and abetting. Because let’s face it: there’s absolutely no doubt that those folks on the Hill are responsible for the ethanol movement.
And when you take into account all the agricultural subsidies and renewable fuel standards, the very thought of ethanol being written off as a temporary fad is ludicrous.
Just take a look at how much ethanol and other biofuels are going to come online thanks to the latest increase in the current renewable fuel standard:
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Drugs or Biofuels
Colombian FTA Misses Biofuels
By: Sam Hopkins – April 10, 2008
Source: Green Chip Stocks (www.greenchipstocks.com)
As usual, Congress is missing the point.
This last week of April 2008, Democrats are vowing to indefinitely stall the Free Trade Agreement with Colombia to gain leverage on presidential economic power, and Republicans are lamenting what may be the end of the FTA era.
But more than anything, it's really the end of the oil age, and stimulation of biofuel production in South America's northern reaches is pivotal for U.S. economic health and regional influence.
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Renewable Energy Plans Unveiled
Source: BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk)
Date: May 9, 2008
Environment Minister Mike Russell has announced plans to increase the use of biomass for renewable energy.
A total of 25 actions have been agreed by the Scottish Government in response to a report looking at ways to increase wood production to be used as fuel.
Among the proposals is for a series of demonstration sites to be set up to promote bioenergy best practice.
Mr Russell made the announcement in Dumfries as he launched Scotland's first NHS hospital biomass boiler.
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Sunovia And EPIR Announce Breakthrough In Manufacturing of Single CdTe On Silicon
By: Staff Writers – May 12, 2008
Source: Solar Daily
Sunovia Energy Technologies and EPIR Technologies are pleased to announce an unprecedented breakthrough in the manufacturing of Single Crystalline Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) on silicon (Si), known as CdTe/Si. The companies have discovered a method to produce single crystalline CdTe/Si more rapidly than ever achieved before in any lab, even for a single isolated sample.
The results have been independently validated and are readily reproducible with an extremely high yield and an unprecedented high crystal quality.
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 Peak Oil Primer
By: André Angelantoni, President, Post Peak Living
Date: May 2008
It's not like we weren't told that this day would come. The warnings were actually quite common, like when 58 national academies of science warned the world that population growth was out of control. Should it be surprising then that with 6.7 billion of us even a good-sized planet like Earth would eventually start to feel cramped and run low on resources?
You probably know what we're doing to the atmosphere to cause global warming, but you may not have been following what's happening to oil. No, it's not running out, but it soon will feel like it. We've reached the half-way point of the easy-to-drill oil. Soon world oil production will decline — and there isn't any amount of technology that we can throw at the problem to stop that from happening.
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Bits and Pieces On The Economy and Peak Oil Ramifications
By: André Angelantoni, President, Post Peak Living
1. Net Exports Down
"Net Oil Exports for March 2008 are now 1,771,000 barrels per day below their peak of December 2006. That is a 4.1 percent drop in 15 months."
2. Also, Saudi Aramco may delay one of its two planned big refineries that would refine the highly sulfurous oil that is in their untapped oil fields. No refineries in the world can currently handle that oil, which is why new refineries are required. No one else except governments could muster the money to build these giant refineries. However, perhaps even they may not be able to stomach the explosion in costs.
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