Al Fin Energy

...Peak Oil catastrophism is largely a manifestation of our primary cultural myth: that all things end with suffering, death, and then res...

Adapted from an earlier posting on Al Fin Dian Chu suggests that under the modern regime of commodities pricing, very few people know what ...

A new and detailed study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres , reveals that black carbon and black soot are far m...

An undisclosed Alberta oilsands operator is working with Toshiba to install a 10 MWe 4S nuclear reactor underground to use for in situ oi...

US oil production continues to climb, introducing an odd shape to the traditional "peak oil graph" that has long been touted by en...

Monterey Shale California's Monterey Shale deposits may contain more oil than North Dakota's Bakken and Texas' Eagle Ford -- t...

US states such as Texas , North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and more are taking advantage of a huge economic boost coming from th...

Big wind turbines do not produce nearly the power that is claimed, do not last nearly as long as projected, and generate far higher lifetime...

Big wind and big solar are hopelessly intermittent and unreliable forms of energy production. But Germany has rashly committed itself to su...

Oil prices have been relatively stuck recently, with no apparent rational relation between the real world and oil prices. Andrew McKillop t...

The California government's firm commitment to intermittent unreliable forms of energy is taking the state into an economic, energy, and...

¶ ALBANY — The state’s Health Department found in an analysis it prepared early last year that the much-debated drilling technology known as...

The US and Canada are experiencing a significant economic, energy, and environmental bonanza, due to the shale boom. Now it is the rest of...

Europe's high energy costs are driving increasing numbers of industries and large employers overseas. Most of Europe's high energy ...

Hindu The real impact stems from its effect on the oil market. Shale gas offers the means to vastly increase the supply of fossil fuels f...

A new study by University of Edinburgh researchers finds that wind turbines break down and wear out much more quickly than wind developers a...

Germany's celebrated Energiewende was meant as a public display of enlightenment on the part of Germany's government. But instead, ...

A new report from the American Tradition Institute clearly spells out why big wind is a tragic waste of resources for North America. Even...

...certain oil fields in places like Iraq and Saudi are still pulling oil up at a cost of about $10 per barrel. This $100 oil malarkey ...