Resources
Download this reportModern Energy 2011
Inside this issue
• Fracking becomes a process that is attracting controversy
• Energy generated from waste could treble by 2020
• Wind turbine makers are seeking markets abroad - -
Content
Rush is on to develop smarter power
A range of technologies is starting to attract serious investment
Fracking: Protesters win first round of PR battle
A process, in use for years, that is now being fought over in the courts
Enhanced recovery: Bigger role for extraction technology
Two-thirds of oil well reserves stay where they are, says Sheila McNulty
Waste: How to get brass from a variety of muck
Sylvia Pfeifer discusses scientific advances that have a role to play in alternative energy
Nuclear: Enthusiasm for reactor investment cools
Ed Crooks explains why the industry faces a tricky future around the world
Innovation: Difficult balance of supply and demand
Ed Crooks reports on problems posed by the ‘new renewables’
Geothermal power: A laboratory for life after fossil fuels
Andrew Ward looks into Iceland’s clean energy potential
Carbon capture: How to match oil and gas with a green reputation
Andrew Ward on a pioneering project in Norway
Deep water Brazil: To venture where no driller has gone before
Sheila McNulty finds outsiders sceptical of Petrobras’s ambitions
Efficiency: Rising price of power may concentrate minds
Sarah Murray on why business is still failing to capitalise on potential savings
