Peak oil – May 6

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The call on OPEC?
Failing the energy IQ test
Exxon Mobil says PO unlikely in next 25 years

OPEC’s dilemma

Global oil production peaking: What happens now?

Peak Oil and U.S. Representative Vernon Ehlers

Rep. Ehlers, formerly a nuclear physicist, is one of only three scientists in Congress. In response to a question at a town hall meeting, he said: “[Peak oil] is just a tough sell. Sometimes people don’t want to believe what they don’t like, and that’s the problem here. There is simply not an infinite amount of oil.”

Peak opportunity

What has a chance of being far more effective [than an environmentalist approach] is to focus on what fundamentally will motivate all of us: personal well-being and survival.

The point of despair

It is at the point of despair that people can feel deep down their connection to all that has come before them and all that will come after. It is not just their personal futures that are at stake anymore. It is the whole project of human civilization…the future of the natural world.

Our finite world: Implications for actuaries

Introduces actuaries to the fact that the world is finite and we are reaching limits in several areas-oil, natural gas, fresh water, and indirectly climate change. These changes affect projections for the future, as made by actuaries. Actuaries should begin to question economic theory as well as their own models.

Birth of a new wedge: agrichar (terra preta)

The first meeting of the International Agrichar Initiative convened about 100 scientists, policymakers, farmers and investors with the goal of birthing an entire new industry to produce a biofuel that goes beyond carbon neutral and is actually carbon negative. The industry could provide a “wedge” of carbon reduction amounting to a minimum of ten percent of world emissions and possibly much more.

Energy Bulletin back

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We’re back in the saddle and will be catching up on posts. We’ve been in talks with another organization and hope to have an announcement ready by next week. Thanks for your patience.

The peak oil crisis: Week twelve

Gasoline consumption continues to run above last year, a series of refining problems have kept gasoline output well below the utilization needed to build stockpiles, and the US seems to be unable to find enough refined gasoline on the world markets to make up the difference.