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Arctic oil on life support

Green Car Congress

As drilling technology advances, conventional oil reserves become harder to find, and climate change contributes to melting sea ice, the Arctic has moved up on the list of priorities in oil company board rooms. But achieving the goals of tapping the extensive oil reserves in the Arctic has been much harder than previously thought.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Smart Grid City will easily support up to 1,000 easily dispatched distributed generation technologies including PHEVs, distributed batteries, solar and wind. A Perfect Storm for Water Counting Calories and Counting Carbon: The Role of.

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