UK energy policy – Dec 24

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Army saves by topping up tanks with chip oil
UK govt report: “The Energy Challenge”

Carbon ‘credit card’ considered

Housing & urban design – Dec 24

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Rail-Volution: Building livable communities with transit
The collective costs of suburban sprawl
“It’s a Wonderful Life” – not so wonderful
The way we will live: houses of the future

Rail – Dec 24

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Rail boom hits environmental, NIMBY snags
North Coast Railroad Authority
Rail-Volution

Peak oil – Dec 24

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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

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Why a hydrogen economy doesn’t make sense
What’s wrong with hydrogen
Lovins: 20 hydrogen myths

Our energy future – a point of view

Joseph DiNunno, Energy Bulletin

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.

U.S. energy policy – Dec 24

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Democrats’ energy goals likely to be modest
Yes, oil from Venezuela
Energy sect’y Bodman: This needs to change
Nancy Nadel on Oakland’s oil independence resolution

Oil – Dec 22

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NYT: Incentives on oil barely help U.S.
Mexico’s lost oil revenue
Trading coal for oil
Oil boom for Norwegian outpost

Climate – Dec 22

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NYT: Outsize profits in effort to cut warming
Nature responds to warming signs
2006 set to be 6th warmest worldwide
Shorelines may be in greater peril than thought

Iran & Mideast oil – Dec 22

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UN poised to pass Iran sanctions despite threat
U.S. plans naval buildup in Gulf to counter Iran
Finally, wisdom in Washington on our oil future