End of Oil

Oil is very important resource for any industrial and post-industrial nation. Wars are being fought in order to secure access to oil. If oil end; also most food sources end because agriculture needs inputs that are made from oil.
http://endofcrudeoil.blogspot.com/2011/09/proved-oil-reserves.html

http://enveconomics.blogspot.com/2011/07/top-10-countries-with-massive-natural.html

http://enveconomics.blogspot.com/2011/07/peak-oil.html

http://enveconomics.blogspot.com/2011/07/thorium-as-energy-source.html

A123 gets big Battery Deal for Wind Turbine Development in China

Lithium ion battery maker A123 Systems today said it will supply an energy storage system attached to a wind turbine in a test that could lead to further grid business in China.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20083142-54/a123-scores-battery-deal-for-wind-power-in-china/

Wind Turbine does not provide constant and controllable supply of electricity and that is why grid needs energy storage in order to be fully able to utilize wind power.

Top 10 Countries with Massive Natural Gas Deposits

Energy runs the economy.
http://enveconomics.blogspot.com/2011/07/peak-oil.html

Natural Gas is one of the cleanest source of energy.
http://www.businessinsider.com/which-countries-have-the-most-natural-gas-2011-7

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=natural+gas&a=*MC.~-_*EnergyResourceData-

http://michelekearneynuclearwire.blogspot.com/2011/07/10-countries-sitting-on-huge-fortune-of.html
#1 Russia, over 25% of proven resources.





Fracking is a controversial method to extract natural gas from ground.

Peak Oil

There is limited amount of oil in the ground and eventually it will all be consumed.
http://arabnews.com/economy/article473059.ece

There are alternative energy sources such as Thorium.
http://enveconomics.blogspot.com/2011/07/thorium-as-energy-source.html

http://peakoil.com/

http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-07-11/peak-oil-review-july-11

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8044

http://joneri.blogspot.com/2011/07/peak-oil-in-house.html

http://peakoilupdate.blogspot.com/2011/07/continuing-fukushima-impact-on-oil-and.html

http://endofcrudeoil.blogspot.com/2011/07/libyan-rebels-repaired-sarir-and-misla.html

Solar Sand Manufacturing

Markus Kayser - Solar Sinter Project from Markus Kayser on Vimeo.

In this experiment sunlight and sand are used as raw energy and material to produce glass objects using a 3D printing process, that combines natural energy and material with high-tech production technology.

http://www.markuskayser.com/
3D printing sand solar power

Thorium as energy source

India hopes it has the answer: thorium, a naturally occurring radioactive element, four times more abundant than uranium in the earth’s crust. 

 The pro-thorium lobby claim a single tonne of thorium burned in a molten salt reactor (MSR) – typically a liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) – which has liquid rather than solid fuel, can produce one gigawatt of electricity. A traditional pressurised water reactor (PWR) would need to burn 250 tonnes of uranium to produce the same amount of energy. 

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/952238/dont_believe_the_spin_on_thorium_being_a_greener_nuclear_option.html

http://alfin2100.blogspot.com/2011/06/what-about-thorium.html

http://nucleargreen.blogspot.com/2011/07/d-ryan-msrlftr-critique-not-ready-for.html

http://daryanenergyblog.wordpress.com/ca/part-8-msr-lftr/

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/07/could-thorium-solve-worlds-energy.html

http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/A-Brief-Overview-of-Thorium-Energy.html

http://bethyada.blogspot.com/2011/06/thorium-nuclear-reactors.html

Some people think that Liquid Thorium reactors could provide energy without carbon emissions.

Water Lightning

Innovative lightning solution for poor. However, it provides lightning only when Sun shines into it.
http://www.visualnews.com/2011/07/14/bringing-light-to-the-poor-one-liter-at-a-time/