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	The energy crisis and a bad solution
		Solar energy, wind energy, geothermic energy (harnessing the heat inside the Earth), plant biomass and hydraulic energy (from water) are virtually inextinguishable sources of energy, some because of the enormous amount of energy they contain and others because they can be regenerated by natural means.
		Non-renewable energies, once totally consumed cannot be replaced in the short or medium term, for instance as in the case of fossil fuels (formed during millions of years by action of heat inside the earth and the pressure of rocks and soil on the remains of dead plants and animals) and nuclear fuels.
		According to the International Energy Agency, by 2025, 82 per cent of the population of the planet will be consuming 45 per cent of the energy, while in the industrialized countries, 14 per cent of the population will be consuming 43 per cent (the remaining amount corresponds to the so-called transition economies).
	www.wrm.org.uy /bulletin/112/Energy_crisis.html (1204 words)

	ENERGY QUESTIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Solar energy is a resource rather than a reserve in most places and for general purpose large scale use.
		After the first "energy crisis" in 1973, geothermal energy was one of the new sources tried out.
		The demand to reduce energy use is based on the fear of using nuclear energy.
	www-formal.stanford.edu /jmc/progress/energy.html (3540 words)

	TomPaine.com - The Permanent Energy Crisis
		Energy experts have long warned that global oil and gas supplies are not likely to be sufficiently expandable to meet anticipated demand.
		The only source of energy that can compensate for a shortage of oil and gas at this time is conventional (unclean) coal, and a rise in its consumption would increase the risk of catastrophic climate change.
		With looming energy shortages, the risk of conflict over energy access (and the wealth fossil fuels generate) is certain to grow.
	www.tompaine.com /articles/2006/02/13/the_permanent_energy_crisis.php (2390 words)

	1979 energy crisis
		The 1979 (or second) energy crisis occurred in the wake of the Iranian Revolution.
		President Jimmy Carter made symbolic efforts to encourage energy conservation, such as wearing a sweater, and installing solar power panels on the roof of the White House and a woodstove in the living quarters.
		Carter made a speech arguing the oil crisis was "the moral equivalent of war".
	www.casimiro.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/1/19/1979_energy_crisis.html (323 words)

	Drivers of the Energy Scene
		Yet market factors and some key feedbacks suggest that, because of the binding constraints of energy availability and accessibility as well as higher real energy prices, deceleration in primary energy requirements is possible (which would have an impact on GHG concentrations in the atmosphere).
		Drivers of the Energy Scene sheds light on which of these directions in energy demand is the more likely basis for business and government partnerships on sustainable energy development in the years to come.
		For the Energy Supply Driver, the costs of primary fuels and their delivery to where they are needed.
	www.worldenergy.org /wec-geis/publications/default/launches/drivers/drivers.asp (454 words)

	Japan for Sustainability - Japan to Reduce its Dependence on Oil to 40% or less by 2030
		World energy consumption in 2030 is projected to be 60 percent higher than in 2002; China's consumption in particular is expected to double during this period.
		As of 2004, energy demand in the non-industrial sector and transport sector (both freight and passenger transport) were about 3.3 and 2.8 times higher than 30 years ago, respectively.
		On the other hand, Japan has increased its energy efficiency by 37 percent in the three decades since the 1973 oil crisis, and is now aiming to improve it by an additional 30 percent by 2030.
	www.japanfs.org /db/database.cgi?cmd=dp&num=1482&dp=data_e.html (419 words)

	TomDispatch - Tomgram: Michael Klare on the Coming Energy Crisis
		To obtain all this imported energy, the Cheney Report calls on the President and his chief associates to place a high priority on acquiring additional petroleum from producers in the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea basin, Africa, and Latin America -- that is, from regions especially susceptible to instability and anti-Americanism.
		As a result, we are more dependent on foreign oil in 2004 than we were in 2001, and all the indicators suggest that this dependency will only become more pronounced during Bush's second term.
		While President Bush is likely to respond to a new energy crisis, as he has in the past, with renewed calls for drilling in ANWR and the further relaxation of U.S. environmental standards, nothing he has proposed to date even suggests a viable exit strategy from perpetual crisis.
	www.tomdispatch.com /index.mhtml?pid=2053 (2132 words)

	How Wind Energy Works
		Wind energy is the fastest growing source of electricity in the world.
		The term used to describe this is "capacity factor," which is simply the amount of power a turbine actually produces over a period of time divided by the amount of power it could have produced if it had run at its full rated capacity over that time period.
		The electric system is designed to handle unexpected swings in energy supply and demand, such as significant changes in consumer demand or even the failure of a large power plant or transmission line.
	www.ucsusa.org /clean_energy/renewable_energy_basics/how-wind-energy-works.html (3084 words)

	Energy crisis \| Information Age
		Although many companies are adopting progressive strategies on energy use, their ability to control use of power by IT seems to be limited.
		In December 2004, in an effort to counteract the damage that the company is doing to the environment, it became the first bank to commit to becoming ‘carbon neutral’.
		HSBC’s approach is three-pronged: to source power only from ‘green’ (renewable energy) suppliers; to offset the remaining emissions in a bid for ‘carbon neutrality’; and to manage and reduce emissions, with a target to cut carbon emissions by 5% by 2007.
	www.information-age.com /article/2006/august/energy_crisis (744 words)

	The Hydrogen Economy — Energy and Economic Black Hole \| EnergyBulletin.net \| Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
		In the United States, ninety percent is made from natural gas, with an efficiency of 72% (2), which means you've just lost 28% of the energy contained in the natural gas to make it (and that doesn’t count the energy it took to extract and deliver the natural gas to the hydrogen plant).
		Making LNG is so energy intensive that it would be economically and environmentally insane to use it as a source of hydrogen (3).
		Hydrogen’s properties require energy to overcome waters’ hydrogen-oxygen bond, to move heavy cars, to prevent leaks and brittle metals, to transport to the destination.
	www.energybulletin.net /2401.html?ENERGYBULL=3f111b51386b890bdf16abbd3c38e150 (2136 words)

	Who Is Pulling the Strings on the Price of Oil
		Such reasons are: energy content (in terms of hydrogen molecules per kilogram), distribution grids, technology, economies of scale, and so on.
		Exhibit 4 shows the energy consumption per capita worldwide and even if we are still in a stagnating period right now, there is no systematic long-term declining trend.
		In the long term childbearing is way too important a human function to suffer from lesser causes such as the lack of heating.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/tmodis/FEB23_04.htm (914 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Enron Owes West Coast $32.5 Million Refund
		The order by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission affirms findings by an administrative law judge a year ago that centered on an undisclosed agreement between Enron and a Texas utility.
		We hope this is the beginning of aggressive action by FERC and that they move quickly," she said.
		FERC Chairman Pat Wood III, said in an interview this week that he had been disgusted and discouraged by evidence of Enron's power-trading abuses, but asked that the commission be judged on its final decisions.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A7583-2004Jul22?language=printer (546 words)

	Zero-point Energy Extraction from the Quantum Vacuum
		Even when you remove all sources of energy and cool a region to very close to absolute zero (the zero point), there is useable energy present in abundance.
		Valone cites evidence that the ZPE is not conserved, and does not follow the normal laws of energy conservation.
		New Energy Movement Conference > Tom Valone Reviews a Myriad of Alternative Energy Technologies - The travesty is that the global warming we are experiencing is entirely unnecessary -- if we would but just pursue these alternatives that have been available for so long.
	www.pureenergysystems.com /events/conferences/2004/teslatech_SLC/TomValone/ZPE_Extraction_QuantumVacuum.htm (978 words)

	2004 Update to the Integrated Energy Policy Report - Docket #03-IEP-01
		California's principal energy agencies have been meeting regularly to coordinate activities, programs, and proceedings in critical energy areas, and have made major strides to implement the loading order strategy.
		The Energy Commission believes that a combination of actions on the demand and supply sides are necessary to stave off another electricity crisis in the near term.
		The Energy Commission should work with the CPUC and other parties to develop a capacity market to allow utilities and generators flexibility in meeting proposed resource adequacy requirements, including a capacity "tagging" mechanism and tradeable capacity rights or obligations.
	www.energy.ca.gov /2004_policy_update (2577 words)

	Energy in a Nutshell
		If it turns out that an alternative energy resources can exist without any fossil fuel inputs, and has a high enough energy content to do significant work, then that energy resource could sustain a certain population, but it will be a much lower number than the current fossil fuel-based civilization.
		These sands also take a tremendous amount of energy to process, requiring expensive mining, crushing, high temperatures, centrifuging, and a lot of water to strip the oil from the tar sands to which the oil is clinging.
		Obtaining hydrogen from fossil fuels as a feedstock or an energy source is a bit perverse, since the whole point is to avoid using fossil fuels.
	www.energyskeptic.com /Energy_In_A_Nutshell.htm (8264 words)

	How Solar Energy Works
		In the broadest sense, solar energy supports all life on Earth and is the basis for almost every form of energy we use.
		Solar energy is used to heat a refrigerant under pressure; when the pressure is released, it expands, cooling the air around it.
		Solar energy technologies are poised for significant growth in the 21st century.
	www.ucsusa.org /clean_energy/renewable_energy_basics/how-solar-energy-works.html (2949 words)

	NRDC: California Sets Nation's Most Aggressive Energy Saving Goals
		The energy saving goal set by the CPUC will result in savings of about 23,000 GWh by 2013, cutting the growth in consumption by more than half.
		The utilities' 2004 long-term investment plans put them on target to meet the CPUC's new savings goals over the next five years; in the latter part of the decade, the CPUC's decision will encourage the utilities to continue to pursue energy efficiency even more aggressively.
		By 2013, the cumulative impact of the energy efficiency programs starting in 2004 will reach about 10% of load and peak demand, on top of the savings that have been accumulating from past programs.
	www.nrdc.org /air/energy/fcagoals.asp (1381 words)

	Energy crisis
		The big question of the moment concerns the energy crisis, which has sent the price of electricity spiraling upward.
		Though many retailers raise the subject of energy costs, she says hardly any make an issue of it.
		In combination with job cuts, rising health-care costs, rising housing prices and other negative factors, the energy crisis is likely to do considerable harm.
	retailtrafficmag.com /mag/retail_energy_crisis (286 words)

	Ministry of Commerce, Science and Technology
		The establishment of an Energy Efficiency Unit, headed by a Director (the “Energy Czar”) and mandated to lead the national effort in energy efficiency at both the demand and supply side and to establish a central point for the coordination of public and private sector initiatives.
		Emphasis in this current financial year will be on energy diversification and the development of policy mechanisms to increase indigenous renewable energy supply, such as wind, biomass and solar photovoltaic.
		Establishing a revolving Energy Trust Fund to wholesale loans for energy investments to residential and private sector users through certified financial institutions at development financing rates of interest.
	www.mct.gov.jm /energy_crisis.htm (696 words)

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		The term "midlife crisis" was introduced by Elliott Jaques, a psychologist and pioneer in human development theory, in 1965.
		He found that around the age of 35 people begin to see their life in terms of "time left to live" as opposed to "time since birth," which is the previously held view.
		Fortunately, whether you are facing a "midlife crisis" or are looking for a new start in life for whatever reason, there are many things you can do to improve your outlook and feel great.
	mercola.com /2004/may/29/midlife_crisis.htm (1165 words)

	California Energy Crisis
		Total forecast spend in 2001 on energy by Californians is $55 billion, compared to around $7 billion in the years prior to the crisis.
		The amount of power that could be produced by renewable energy systems and sold back to the grid (called "net metering") was increased from 10 kilowatts to 1,000 kilowatts up until 2003.
		The California Energy Commission reported that 653 Solar Energy Systems (related to the CEC buy-down) were installed in California over April-June 2001.
	www.solarbuzz.com /CaliforniaEnergyCrisis.htm (1048 words)

	UK: Government 'failing' on energy crisis \| EnergyBulletin.net \| Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
		Published on 14 Jun 2004 by This is London.
		BRITAIN is moving closer to a flouts crisis in the energy industry, as the Government was today accused of wasting another year by burying its head in the sand.
		In a report published today, the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) said the Department of Trade and Industry fails to grasp that a shortfall caused by closing nuclear and coal-fired power stations cannot be replaced in time by the growing investment in wind farms.
	www.energybulletin.net /652.html (400 words)

	Shanghai is Experiencing Energy Crisis
		The "save energy" campain could be unnecessary if the buildings had been constructed with just a minimum of isolation to keep out the heat in summer (and the cold in winter).
		To reduce the loss of energy, all buildings have (by law) to be isolated with 300 mm mineral wool or similar at the ceiling of rooms, and 100 to 200 mm in the vertical walls, and to have double or triple glass windows.
		The main issue is the energy's supply and demand, and the largest increase in demand I suspect has come from industrial growth.
	home.wangjianshuo.com /archives/20040622_shanghai_is_experiencing_energy_crisis.htm (3273 words)

	Jon Udell: The energy web
		The energy crisis of the 1970s is a fading memory.
		Talk of energy conservation, once a national pastime, is now heard only infrequently, both here in the United States and in other industrialized nations.
		The emergence of hydrogen as a complementary energy carrier, the decentralization of power generation, and the shift to renewable sources are seen as later-stage developments.
	weblog.infoworld.com /udell/2004/10/04.html (1144 words)

	Peak Oil: Life After the Oil Crash
		Nuclear energy requires uranium, which is also discovered, extracted, and transported using oil-powered machinery.
		If energy peaks, particularly while 5 of the world’s 6.5 billion people have little or no use of modern energy, it will be a tremendous jolt to our economic well-being and to our health — greater than anyone could ever imagine.
		energy consumption is indispensable to our standard of living and a necessity for the Army to carry out its mission.
	www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net (5389 words)

	1979 energy crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		During the oil crisis in 1979 coupons for gasoline rationing were printed, but never used.
		President Jimmy Carter made symbolic efforts to encourage energy conservation, such as wearing a sweater, and installing solar power panels on the roof of the White House and a wood stove in the living quarters.
		However, his successor Ronald Reagan ordered the solar panels removed and the wood stove was dismantled.
	www.toolhost.com /1979_energy_crisis.html (439 words)

	Oil Crisis
		In January, the International Energy Agency estimated that worldwide demand is growing by nearly 2 percent per year.
		While most analysts expect demand to slow this year from the record pace of 2004, high prices are not prompting China and the United States, the two main contributors to growth in the market, to significantly reduce their consumption.
		The International Energy Agency, in a report earlier this month, cut its forecasts for Canadian and Russian production and warned that the output from producers outside of OPEC would slow this year.
	healthandenergy.com /oil_crisis.htm (3218 words)

	Energy Legal Blog
		The interim standard requires the state's energy providers to source their power supply from plants that emit less than 1,100 pounds of CO2 per megawatt hour whenever they enter into any new or renewed power purchase commitments of five years or more.
		Finally, NRG Energy, Inc., agreed to pay $500,000 and implement a compliance plan, after self-reporting to the ISO-New England Market Monitor that one of its plant managers had intentionally misrepresented the availability of a generation unit that was under a Reliability Must-Run contract for a two-day period.
		The interim rule allows sharing risk management employees between natural gas pipelines and their energy and marketing affiliates when the employees are engaged in transmission functions or sales or commodity functions.
	energylegalblog.com (4986 words)

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