Sunday 11 October 2009

Oil production could peak in 10 years' time

There is a 'significant risk' that global oil production will peak in less than ten years' time, say researchers in a report from the UK Energy Research Centre.

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The report's authors add there is a growing consensus that the age of cheap oil is coming to an end.

But they warn that governments, including the UK's, are not concerned about global oil depletion, despite the fact that oil provides a third of the world's energy.

As the modern industrial world is largely built on the availability of cheap oil, this is likely to have a huge impact on the global economy.

The whole issue of peak oil has long been contentious. A growing number of commentators say the world is near peak oil production, predicting that oil will run out as reserves become more and more depleted. Others argue we have enough oil to see us well into the twenty-first century.

Oil production could peak in 10 years' time

Migrants, Go Home!

PANORAMA Reporter Paul Kenyon continues his journey out of Africa following the route taken by 40,000 migrants a year seeking a better life in Europe. He discovers the way to the UK blocked by a new hardline policy in France to round up economic migrants and send them home, and an unlikely partnership with Libya's Colonel Gaddafi, who has reached an agreement with Italy to capture Europe-bound migrants at sea and lock them up in desert prisons.http://bbc.co.uk/i/n6x4f/

BBC iPlayer - Panorama: Migrants, Go Home!

How to predict a hurricane

Iceland looks to serve the world

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Since the financial crisis, Iceland has been forced to retreat back from high octane bubble living to nature.

Fortunately, there is a lot of that nature to retreat to.

It is a breathtaking world of volcanoes, endless prairies and ethereal winter landscapes. Not, you might think, the most obvious place to stick millions of the world's computer servers which are, for all their uses, rather less attractive. But the country now wants exactly that - to become home to the world's computing power.

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Iceland looks to serve the world

BBC NEWS | Business | Fear of steep energy bill rises

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Domestic UK energy bills could rise by 60% by 2016 in a worst-case scenario identified by the energy regulator.

BBC NEWS | Business | Fear of steep energy bill rises

Exploring Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development in Africa

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For developing countries, it is obvious that we have a lot of natural resources with the potential to produce alternative energy to combine with the traditional sources such as hydro - electric power and thermal energy technology, which are not environmentally friendly and also susceptible to climate change.

allAfrica.com: Africa: Exploring Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development (Page 1 of 1)