With the depletion of oil reserves, and the increase in extraction costs, even mainstream media have begun to publish articles about the need to reach out for alternative sources of energy.

Naturally, oil companies have no interest in promoting use of truly renewable energies: energy generation based on natural, abundant and freely accessible resources (such wind, tides and solar radiation) would radically change the “rules of the game” and break the monopoly of the supermajor. The business model of oil companies is extracting natural resources and selling them, and this is why they are now trying hard to legitimise coal and natural gas as “environmentally friendly” source of energy.

Of course I never believed for a moment that natural gas could be the right answer to the problem, but – until yesterday – I was under the impression that natural gas was at least cleaner alternative to oil. Little I knew that: Read the rest of this entry »