Peak Oil – Sept 17

Whither oil prices?

OPEC sheds production ceiling

As prices tumble, doomsayers hold fast to prophecy

Geopolitics – Sept 17

Yemen foils attacks on oil plants

Sinopec set for 51% stake in Yadavaran

Putin declines EU’s energy charter

Pakistan: Hello al-Qaeda, goodbye America

Solar – Sept 17

Australia may miss solar power boom

NATURE: Silicon Valley sunrise

Desperately seeking silicon

Biofuels – Sept 17

From wheat to corn
Could sugar cane save the planet?
Addressing Proposition 87 criticisms (California)

Oil prices – Sept 17

Brainstorming on oil price manipulation

India: volatile oil prices a big worry

Mandil: Capacity limits to curb oil price fall

IMF raises 2007 oil price forecast 20%
Get ready for price rationing, says oil guru Groppe

Clinton reads Heinberg on peak oil

“I borrowed a book from [Bill Clinton] that he had just read—The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies, by Richard Heinberg, not exactly summer reading—and it was full of underlinings and what looked like the most serious undergraduate’s markings, with lots of exclamation points.”

Ethanol – Sept 16

South Africas ethanol landscape

Extracting grain of truth on ethanol

Consumer Reports: The ethanol myth

India backs down on blending

Honda claims cellulose breakthrough

Community and Curtailment

The handwriting is on the wall – massive
change is in the offing – and we are totally unprepared. For this New Solutions we will discuss options for addressing these threats under the rubric of four “plans” arbitrarily labeled A, B, C and D.

Oil Industry – Sept 15

Secret to cheap petrol is coal

BP was warned over North Slope intimidation

Oil supplies ‘could last 140 years’

Canadian crude oil production drops

US DOE trumpets CO2 injection