India predicts 40% leap in demand for fossil fuels

From a news story on Yahoo today India Predicts 40% Leap in Demand for Fossil Fuels

NEW DELHI (AFP) – Premier Manmohan Singh told India's energy firms on Monday to scour the globe for fuel supplies as he warned the country's demand for fossil fuels is set to soar 40 percent over the next decade.

The country of more than 1.1 billion people already imports nearly 80 percent of its crude oil to fuel an economy that is expected to grow 8.5 percent this year and at least nine percent next year.
Demand for hydrocarbons -- petroleum, coal, natural gas -- "over the next 10 years will increase by over 40 percent," Singh told an energy conference in New Delhi.

"India needs adequate supplies of energy at affordable prices to meet the demand of its rapidly growing economy," he said, as rising Indian incomes spur industrial demand and more people buy energy-guzzling cars and appliances.

Singh's call comes as India is locked in a race with emerging market rival China for fuel supplies to feed their booming economies in which analysts say Beijing has taken a strong lead.

India faces "immense competition from China which has been far quicker to react when an asset becomes available," Kalpana Jain, senior director of global consultancy Deloitte, told AFP.

Most of India's fuel demand must be met from imports as the increase in supply from domestic maturing oil fields is expected to be just 12 percent over the next 10 years, Singh said.

The government is "encouraging national oil companies to pursue equity in oil and gas opportunities overseas," he said, adding "hydrocarbons will continue to be our major source of energy for quite some time."

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Maintenance on the Wood Stove

Fall and winter is on it's way to Michigan.  Craig and Jake did a little maintenance on the wood-burning stove today.  The pipe needed to be removed and cleaned out to remove the creosote (soot).  We had the stove operating from February through May this year (4 months) until summer came.  The pictures show the soot that accumulated in 4 month that needed to be cleaned out. 

The wood-burning stove is in our family room-kitchen dinning area.  Last year, we replace an old wood-burning fire place with a wood stove.  A wood-stove is much more efficient than a fire place.  This was a major undertaking to replace a brick fire place with a wood-burning wood stove but it was totally worth it.

We estimate the cost of the wood stove, all the piping, ceramic floor tile and tools to be about $3000.  Craig did all the labor himself. We had to remove all the exterior brick chimney, remove the cinder block and all the construction debris in the garage, replace endless sheets of sheet rock, paint the new interior walls, remove old wood floors, lay new laminated floors, ceramic tiles blah blah blah....this only took 2 years.  and ta dah!!!!! a fantastic energy efficient, beautiful, cozy wood stove.

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Don't forget....

...the lecture tonight

Pat Murphy , Executive Director of the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions, Discusses Exploring Community Solutions' Plan C: Dealing with Peak Oil, Climate Change, and Rising Inequity

Tuesday September 28, 2010: 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm -- Malletts Creek Branch: Program Room AB

The Ann Arbor City Planning Commission and the Ann Arbor Energy and Environmental Commission are co-sponsors of this special event featuring Pat Murphy, the nationally-known speaker and expert on energy, Peak Oil, geopolitics, and lifestyle solutions. He will place special emphasis on the Ann Arbor area for this community presentation.

Pat Murphy, is the Executive Director of the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions. This non-profit organization educates on the benefits and values of small local community living and seeks alternatives to both non-renewables (hydrogen, large scale coal/gas-to-liquids, carbon sequestration, tar sands) and renewables (large scale wind systems, biofuels, solar) that are risky and intended to maintain unsustainable levels of resource consumption.

We'll be the family in the colorful Zipcar!

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Lecture - Plan C and Peak Oil

Fellow blogger/Facebook friend Kirk Westphal alerted me to an upcoming lecture hosted by the Ann Arbor District Library.

Pat Murphy - courtesy of AADL

The Ann Arbor Planning Commission and Energy & Enviroment Commission are co-sponsoring a special event featuring nationally-known speaker Pat Murphy.  Mr. Murphy is an expert on energy, peak oil, geopolitics, and community solutions.  His lecture will focus on Ann Arbor.

Mr. Murphy authored the book Plan C, published in 2008.  AADL owns a copy.

Tuesday September 28, 7:00-8:30 at Mallets Creek Branch.  See here for more details.  http://www.aadl.org/events/list/0/19

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A Second Gulf Rig Explosion

September 2, 2010 Gulf Explosion

Yahoo news just reported a second Gulf rig explosion.  see article here http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_rig_explosion

The explosion occured around 9:30 am Thursday September 2.  All personell were reported in the water, one with injuries.