Posts under ‘Alternative Energy’

By 2023, a Changed World in Energy By CLIFFORD KRAUSS: A version of this article appeared in print on April 25, 2013, on page F1 of the New York edition HOUSTON IF you could close your eyes for just a moment like Rip Van Winkle, and blink them open in 2023, you might see a [...]

By John Donovan Printed below is a deluded article written by a Shell exploration manager – Roland Spuij (prat on the right) – who apparently is totally ignorant of Shell’s track record of giving a higher priority to production and profits than to the safety of its offshore workers. Either that, or he is trying [...]

Carol Pierson Holding: Writer, CSRHub: Posted: 03/12/2013 3:51 pm According to Shell’s New Lens Scenarios, we’re headed for a carbon-free future, where solar will be the dominant energy source by 2100. The report got almost universally upbeat press, praised in business and even environmental websites. Amory Lovins, Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, endorses [...]

March 4, 2013 Oil and gas companies including BP and Shell will likely see declines in cash flows and credit downgrades if world leaders implement policies to limit GHG emissions, according to a study by Carbon Tracker and Standard & Poor’s. What A Carbon-Constrained Future Could Mean For Oil Companies’ Creditworthiness looks at how BP [...]

By Eduard Gismatullin & Sally Bakewell – Feb 28, 2013 12:01 AM GMT Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) says solar power, a business it abandoned four years ago, may expand into the world’s biggest source of energy in the next half century. The proposition that photovoltaic panels will be the main power source by 2070 [...]

By Wael Mahdi – Dec 11, 2012 8:00 AM GMT Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) invested $26 million in GlassPoint Solar Inc. to help it secure contracts in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman to extract dense crude using steam produced from a solar plant, the California-based company said in a statement. GlassPoint runs a 7-megawatt, four-acre [...]

Ahead of the Government’s gas strategy, Shell chief executive Peter Voser reveals why it is the fuel of the future and how he is riding the shale revolution. Peter Voser believes Shell is creating value out of the whole of the production and supply chain and that its exposure to gas growth is the jewel [...]

Royal Dutch Shell has attacked the “ridiculous” impact of European energy policy, warning that governments are erasing the environmental benefits from expensive renewables by allowing coal use to increase. Europe is burning more coal, while demand for gas – which emits much less CO2 than coal – is declining Photo: GETTY IMAGES By Emily Gosden: 6:03PM [...]

LATEST LINKS TO ARTICLES RECOMMENDED BY “REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR” John, Have you seen this?  Exxon has some of the same problems Shell has regarding ‘risk’ transparency. Where was Shell ?? Russian Arctic Opens to Oil Companies – E, XOM, STO – Foolish … And then there is this article: Exxon (XOM) and Shell (RDS.A, RDS.B) Are [...]

The Times-Standard Posted:   07/10/2012 03:45:33 PM PDT Shell WindEnergy Inc. announced today that the company is opting to exit the Bear River wind project that has been in the works for years. A press release from the company states it’s withdrawing from the project due to “unfavorable market conditions and issues pertaining to the [...]

More on Poo Gas from the same source as the article: Why can’t those geniuses at Shell think of something like this? John I decided to play a few number games… Consider the scenario where 1 cu ft. of Poo Gas methane can be generated from the average human’s daily discharge of Loo-Poo. There are [...]

FROM A REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR John, Thought you might like this article. New Toilet Turns Human Waste Into Electricity and Fertilizer‎‏ Why can’t those geniuses at Royal Dutch Shell think of something like this ??? Maybe RD Shell needs to invest in the Loo market. Think of all the natural gas that can be generated and [...]

Monday, 18 June 2012 23:30 Written by  Brian Koenig Shell Oil Company’s chief U.S. official congratulated the White House for accepting the “strategic importance” of oil resources off the Alaskan coast, but asserted that overall tensions between President Obama and the oil industry prevail. “I think you see a lot and you hear a lot [...]

FROM A CONTRIBUTOR About two decades ago the US DoD ran some tests designed to test the efficacy of a propulsion system for shallow draft/shallow water vessels. These tests failed, and they failed miserably. However, there was a surprise that came out of these tests. The experimental propulsion system produce large amounts of gas – [...]

May 16, 2012 – 8:04pm By JOANN ALBERSTAT Business Reporter Geologist: Analysis spurred energy giant’s N.S. program A $15-million government-funded study on Nova Scotia’s offshore oil and gas potential helped spur Shell’s $1-billion exploration program here, a Houston-based chief geologist with the global energy giant said Wednesday in Halifax. Brad Prather, who works in deepwater [...]