DGreen7545 07:17:55 PM Jul 29 2008

while there is indeed a market for carbon dioxide in petroleum recovery, the carbon dioxide is pumped down and flowed back out by another well over and over, recovering petroleum each go round. still, it is being put to good use this way

Bradstrick2001 04:36:01 PM Jul 29 2008

In addition to removing pollutants such as mercury and sulfur, the gasification process allows carbon dioxide (CO2), the leading global warming agent, to be removed with little difficulty from the waste stream. Once separated, the CO2 can be stored permanently underground, buried deep in the earth and stored much like it was stored as coal. This is known as “carbon capture and sequestration” and is strongly supported by leading environmental scientists and global warming experts. In fact, there is a market for injecting carbon dioxide underground. Oil fields use CO2 to revive depleted oil wells, pumping the gas under pressure deep into oil-bearing formations, to force otherwise irretrievable oil to the wellhead. This process, known as enhanced oil recovery (EOR), causes the CO2 to remain deep in the ground and eventually react and stabilize with the rock and water in the formation.

Bradstrick2001 04:35:31 PM Jul 29 2008

South Africa is the leading producer. For decades, it has operated plants that produce an estimated 300,000 barrels of gasoline and diesel a day from coal. A number of other countries, including Qatar, Malaysia and China, are investing in either coal gasification or synfuel production. Increased global demand for oil and other energy has driven up prices and made synfuel production an economically viable alternative.

Bradstrick2001 04:35:03 PM Jul 29 2008

With a demonstrated reserve base of 120 billion tons, Montana's coal is, in liquid terms, over one quarter the size of the entire Middle East oil reserve--enough fuel to power every American car for decades. In Montana and across the West, if even a fraction of our reserves were developed and converted to liquid fuel, we could greatly reduce the oil we now import from unfriendly and unstable countries. Or, if we moved toward a gasification program for generating electric power with IGCC plants, we could substantially reduce emissions from the utility industry.

Bradstrick2001 04:29:03 PM Jul 29 2008

This partnership between utility and developer enables all customers to be “virtual solar owners”, and to act on their desire for energy independence. It makes solar electricity affordable for all customer classes and knocks down installation cost barriers. Renters, businesses and occupants of multi-unit buildings can participate, as can customers who cannot install PV because of site, installation or building ownership issues.

Bradstrick2001 04:28:38 PM Jul 29 2008

The project allows SMUD to offer long-term fixed rates for solar to all of its customers: residential, low-income and businesses. Prices for residential customers are expected to range between $5 and $30 per month, based on the solar allocation a customer choose enXco was awarded the contract to construct, own and operate the system based on their project development expertise, economic competitiveness, and ability to deliver the project, after SMUD evaluated over 25 bids from leading US solar developers. enXco will provide the energy on a 20-year power purchase agreement to SMUD, who in turn will supply the solar to customers enrolled in their voluntary SolarShares program

Bradstrick2001 04:26:54 PM Jul 29 2008

The system is expected to generate enough electricity to power approximately 600 homes. Already customers are clamoring to get their “share” of the system. Though it has not yet been widely publicized, the utility has gotten hundreds of calls from interested customers. Customers can also “take” their solar block with them, if they move within the electric service territory.

Bradstrick2001 04:26:29 PM Jul 29 2008

This customer-driven PV system is the first of its kind and the nation’s largest solar plant built to serve customers enrolled in a voluntary green pricing program. It is also one of the largest ground-mounted PV systems installed in the United States, using some 17,000 solar panels and 2,300 poles over 8.5 acres. All of the system panels and components were made in the US. The array is built on the grounds of the Nilsen Turkey Farm in Wilton, California.

Bradstrick2001 04:26:03 PM Jul 29 2008

SACRAMENTO, CA, July 15, 2008 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- enXco – an EDF Energies Nouvelles Company, unveiled a 1.2 megawatt (dc) solar photovoltaic array near Sacramento, California today. enXco developed and built the photovoltaic (PV) system for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD). enXco will sell the energy under a long-term contract to SMUD, who will deliver the electricity to customers signed up in the SolarShares Program.

Bradstrick2001 01:30:43 PM Jul 29 2008

JUNE Last week China’s NDRC lifted the prices of gasoline, diesel oil, aviation kerosene and electricity (Xinhua). At 18 per cent, the price rise was the largest ever one day price rise for gasoline in China, and the first price rise since November (CNBC).So what’s behind this sudden energy price adjustment?The two key objectives of energy price control are price stability and clearing the market (supply matching demand). But covering energy shortfalls when there is rapidly rising demand at home and abroad is inconsistent with maintaining price stability. This is fundamentally why the NDRC cannot hold prices stable permanently: and energy shortages have become a larger problem than price rises. But what explains the timing and size of the price adjustment now