Energy Headlines for June 17, 2005 -- EnergyBulletin.net

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Energy Headlines - 17 June, 2005
Staff, Energy Bulletin
Oil supply balance swinging negative? / Mexico and Norway Can't Help on Oil Prices / Demand for Natural Gas Brings Big Import Plans, and Objections / Morgan Stanley economist sees oil crash / 'Put a Liar in Your Tank' - Ex-Bush Aide Who Edited Climate Reports to Join ExxonMobil / Homegrown Fuel Supply Helps Brazil Breathe Easy / Norwegian trial of wind-powered hydrogen for remote area electricity
published June 17, 2005.

[jpak]

1. my favorite

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,,1506959,00.html

[ozymandius]

2. excerpt

Toralf Austrheim is one of about 240 people living on a windswept isle 10 nautical miles off the west coast of Norway. Three times a day, he pilots the only ferry that connects Utsira to the mainland. On most days, the ride is bumpy and nausea-inducing, but on others, the sea is slick as oil. When Mr Austrheim returns home, he enjoys a nice cup of coffee while watching telly, all thanks to the hydrogen plant less than a mile from his doorstep.

The factory is the first of its kind to produce electricity by combining wind power and hydrogen, a completely pollution-free method. On a good windy day, which Utsira has plenty of, where speeds average 10 metres <33ft> per second, the turbines can power the whole island. Any surplus is used to break water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. On days when the wind is weak, the stored hydrogen is used to produce electricity, either by burning it in a combustion engine or fusing it chemically with oxygen in a fuel cell, a kind of battery. The only by-product of the operation is water.