Richard Gilbert

Society

Post Carbon Institute Natural Gas Report Supplements: Public Health, Agriculture, & Transportation

The challenges posed by shale gas production have serious implications for the future of agriculture, transportation, and health in the United States. In this collection of articles, PCI Fellows explore what the Hughes Report means for these sectors.

 

June 2, 2011

Society

Transportation: Transportation in the Post-Carbon World

Successful post-carbon transitions will benefit from understanding the dynamics of transport revolutions.  We define a transport revolution as being substantial change in a society’s transport activity–moving people or freight, or both–that occurs in less than twenty five years.

October 27, 2010

Preparing transportation for oil depletion

Some 95% of motorized travel and freight movement by land, sea, and air is fuelled by oil products, accounting worldwide for consumption of some 60% of crude oil. …Our assessment of numerous alternatives to oil as a transport fuel concludes that, as oil depletion progresses, only electricity could reasonably power acceptable levels of land transportation.

November 19, 2007

Society

Don’t gripe about gas prices

Oil prices, at their highest levels for more than a decade, are trending upward. Natural gas prices are going out of sight. Yet more blips in the ups and downs of fuel costs? Or, as many believe, the start of an era of ever-more-expensive energy?

May 10, 2004

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