Coal, nuclear, renewables – Dec 27
Coal fueling energy debate
Coal in your stocking
Nukes in Amarillo
Is thorium the answer to our energy crisis?
So Cal Ed signs biggest U.S. wind contract
Offshore wind farms get go-ahead in UK – largest in world
Resolutions for a Post-Peak New Year
Ten New Year’s resolutions to help get ready for a world on the far side of Hubbert’s peak, focusing on practical steps most people can accomplish in their lives right now.
Iran – Dec 26
Sanctions approved for Iran
Analysis says Iran’s oil revenue is plummeting
Iranian petro crisis and U.S. national security
Controlling Iran’s nuclear program
Iran turns from dollar to euro in oil sales
Algeria increases the price of oil
This trend implies consumer nations will never be able to reach a long term contractual relationship with producer nations for the allocation of earth’s remaining oil and natural gas resources.
U.S. energy policy turning green? Dec 26
Losing to the greens
Friedman: And the color of the year is…
House to target Big Oil breaks
Schwarzenegger remakes himself as environmentalist
California warming law applies pressure to industries
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 26
Garden Girl video
Post-peak medicine: garlic case study
Green web portal for Portland
Positive charcoal = negative carbon?
How to provide good food for everyone
Climate – Dec 26
Deck the halls with boughs of holly – before it dies out
Usefulness of forests in CO2 reduction
Team monitors CO2 underground
The ripening
I sat excitedly at the speakers’ table for the press conference unveiling the Southern California Association of Governments’ (SCAG) 2006 State of the Region Report. The usual group of reporters, both print and broadcast was there. I had spent many hours formulating responses to anticipated questions regarding my remarks and the inclusion of an important new section acknowledging “peak oil.” (Debbie Cook is Mayor Pro Tem for the City of Huntington Beach)
Peak oil – Dec 24
McKibben in Sierra Club: Energizing America
TOD: A primer on reserve growth
How to address contrarian arguments: “We have huge reserves”
Rail-Volution on peak oil
Peak food and population overshoot
We don’t know Jack
Hydrogen – Dec 24
Why a hydrogen economy doesn’t make sense
What’s wrong with hydrogen
Lovins: 20 hydrogen myths
Our energy future (summary)
Recommendations from the complete paper.
Our energy future – a point of view
A detailed analysis in the tradition of the late Admiral Rickover. It takes as its starting point the finite nature of fossil fuels and concludes with some surprising recommendations. Author DiNunno is a retired engineer with a 64-year career in the electrical/nuclear field (AEC, DoE, etc.), especially in the planning and oversight of nuclear reactors.
