http://blocksindicator.com Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:57:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Ray Block Australia with 75.5 per cent of electricity production derived from coal fired power stations is the largest coal exporter in the world. Although the country emits only 1 per cent of world greenhouse gas (GHG), per head of the 21 million population it generates the greatest concentration of ... http://blocksindicator.com/2008/11/australias-renewable-energy-levels-part-1/ by Ray Block Good as wind and solar energy can be to provide peak power, they are no substitute to coal fired or nuclear as base load power to provide electricity 24 hours a day. The increasing evidence is that planet earth needs a sharp reduction in carbon pollution, if the ... http://blocksindicator.com/2008/11/why-not-geothermal-energy-as-base-load-power/ by Ray Block The surge in world recession as America, Europe including the UK and Japan move deeper into recession is now spreading further. Even the rapidly growing Asian countries, such as China and India and the raw material supplier countries are being lashed with the buffeting winds spreading the overall ... http://blocksindicator.com/2008/11/impact-of-world-recession-on-renewable-energy/ by Ray Block  Shai Agassi, who resigned in 2007 as No2 of SAP, the world’s second largest software company in the world, and now founder and chief executive of Better Place of Alto Palo Ca has a burning ambition. The ambition is to build networks of electric car battery exchange stations ... http://blocksindicator.com/2008/10/better-place-has-big-plans/ by Ray Block Alberta oil sands in the far northern area of the Canadian province is spread over three deposits beneath 140,200 sq km, an area larger than the US state of Florida. Oil sands is a biitumen molasses like viscous oil, which won't  flow unless heated or diltuted with lighter hydrocarbons.                                                                                                                                                                Once produced, ... http://blocksindicator.com/2008/10/the-greenhouse-dilemma-of-the-alberta-oil-sands/ by Ray Block In 1990, General Motors was accused by people who love conspiracy theories of killing the electric car at the behest of the oil industry. GM was then intending to market the EV1 electric car, which was to be marketed in Southern California on a lease basis. At least, ... http://blocksindicator.com/2008/10/solving-the-auto-riddle-and-reducing-greenhouse-gas/ by Ray Block “My very strong belief is that we need to reorient our investments toward this transition to a clean energy economy. It will be the engine of growth for getting us out of the doldrums that we’ve gotten in right now.” This was the start of a ... http://blocksindicator.com/2008/10/could-sizeable-investments-in-renewable-energies-ease-the-financial-crisis/ By Ray Block   There is a strong relationship between government incentives, including mandating renewable energy targets, and ultimate success in renewable energy developments. The more farsighted governments are in terms of incentives, the greater a country’s achievements, not only in reducing greenhouse gas, but in developing large scale new industries.   Having ... http://blocksindicator.com/2008/10/size-of-tax-incentives-a-key-to-success-in-renewable-energies/ by Ray Block Everything about the Amazon is big. If you take the river, it is by far the greatest in the world .by so many measures. The volume of water it carries is a high 20 per cent of all the freshwater into the oceans.   The tropical rainforest itself, home of ... http://blocksindicator.com/2008/10/rape-of-the-amazon/ by Ray Block Over a number of years, investment bankers in America and England created toxic securities, almost as deadly as weapons of mass destruction, and the consequences are now tipping the world economy into a severe and prolonged recession.   The immediate countries engulfed are United States, United Kingdom and European ... http://blocksindicator.com/2008/10/world-economic-slump-puts-global-warming-on-the-back-burner/