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May 19, 2013
by Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
The famous Danish physicist Niels Bohr once humorously observed, "Predictions are very difficult, especially about the future." And so, as the world considers yet another rosy oil supply forecast, this time from the Paris-based International Energy Agency, it is worth reviewing the …
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May 13, 2013
by Chris Martenson, Peak Prosperity
The Obama administration has come out in support of the idea of exporting U.S. natural gas. This stance is counterproductive and shortsighted, and if followed, it will prove harmful to domestic manufacturing (i.e., value generation) and to future generations of Americans.
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May 12, 2013
by Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
There is one segment of U.S. industry that ought to be cheering for expanded U.S. natural gas exports--though I doubt that its leaders will be offering their support in anything above a whisper. The renewable energy industry would benefit from higher natural gas prices.
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May 5, 2013
by Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Maybe it's the gloomy Seattle weather that has made investment manager Jim Hansen and his son and partner, Kevin, at Ravenna Capital Management immune to oil and gas industry hype about the supposed U.S. shale gas "revolution."
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Apr 28, 2013
by Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Okay, I'm going to give you the shortest course ever in energy abundance: Energy abundance depends entirely on the RATE of energy flow.
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Apr 9, 2013
by Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•U.S. proposal to move fracking wastewater by barge stirs debate •More Financial Worries Coming to Light in Domestic Shale Drilling Industry •Oil Addiction, Not Fracking, Caused the 2011 Oklahoma Earthquakes •GAS LEAK! •Shale-rich Spanish region vote to ban fracking
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Mar 28, 2013
by Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
So concludes an expert analyst of the natural gas boom. Brace for bust. From the series: The Big Shift-Surviving the Great Energy Transition.
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Mar 24, 2013
by Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
As U.S. natural gas prices flirt with the $4 mark, some skeptics of the so-called shale gas revolution think prices are headed much higher. Such a move would, not surprisingly, seriously undermine the official story that the United States has a century of cheap natural gas waiting for the drillbit.
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Mar 20, 2013
by Paul Gilding, Cockatoo Chronicles
There are signs the climate movement could be on the verge of a remarkable and surprising victory. If we read the current context correctly, and if the movement can adjust its strategy to capture the opportunity presented, it could usher in the fastest and most dramatic economic transformation …
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Mar 4, 2013
by Alex Smith, Radio Ecoshock
In-depth interview with Nobel Laureate Robert B. Laughlin on his book "Powering the Future: How We Will Eventually Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow." Dr. Rose M. Cory's new science on positive feedback loop discovered in the melting Arctic.
