The World Energy Outlook is a yearly publication from the International Energy Agency giving the official projection of the future energy outlook. They just released the 2008 report and there are a couple slide decks available giving some hints of what is contained in the report.
WEO 2008 Presentation at COP 14 Side Event

Technosanity #20: […]

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Wind turbines could feasibly provide a lot of electricity to the world and building integrated wind turbines is an interesting model to use. A building integrated wind turbine is mounted on e.g. a rooftop. Roofs often have better wind than on the ground, but as I noted in the earlier article there is […]

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Each action, each deed, is like falling knives striking melted butter. Each action divides the present into the future and past, forever rendering the possible from the achieved. Each action seems to cut away possibilities, yet there are always infinite possibilities. Each action divides the present yet the present always exists immutable. […]

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Who says biofuels have to be a diversion of food crops? Biological life is very flexible and I believe it’s possible for biologists to genetically engineer a biological life form which can directly produce massive quantities of liquid fuel. Maybe. In any case… A Montana State University professor has found a fungus […]

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The stereotype of solar power is silicon photovoltaics or the passive solar hot water heaters. But what if we could grow a biological material that converts sunlight into electrical energy? The biological life on this planet has had a billion or more years of life on this planet, all the time relying on […]

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Some people think the problems of ‘peak oil’ and ‘climate change’ are in conflict with one another. If we run out of oil then that means, whew, we’ll dodge the climate change problem, right? Uh… What about the coal?

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The clothes dryer at my house seems to have broken. It’s a typical american big-as-heck clothes dryer and I’ve measured its power use as being 750 watts. Last week it stopped getting hot and hence the clothes did not dry out and the dryer just spun and spun and spun for hours. […]

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The amount of danger presented by the peak oil scenario depends on the future decline in oil production. That is, the peak oil scenario says (based on observations from around the world) that after some point of oil extraction and production the worlds oil production will inevitably enter a decline and that once world […]

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Cree Semiconductor is a market leader in high efficiency LED lighting. While the compact fluorescent lights are more efficient than incandescent the LED lighting is even more efficient. The important measure is the lumens of light output per watt of electricity.
Cree now offers XLamp XP-E cool white (5,000K - 10,000K CCT) […]

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