Nuclear – Aug 11
Is nuclear power a viable option for our energy needs? / Australia: A trump card in the nuclear power play / Our nuclear summer (nuclear needs water)
Climate change – Aug 11
How global warming will hit British Columbia (series) / Greenland’s ice cap is melting at a frighteningly fast rate / In warmer world, even Inuit buy air conditioners (not a joke)
No more business as usual
There are few more qualified people in the world who can discuss Peak Oil than Ali Samsam Bakhtiari, retired “senior energy expert” of National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC. So when Bakhtiari talks, people ought to listen. He says: “We are entering an era in which we know nothing much, where we have a brand-new set of rules.”
The good life in Havana: Cuba’s green revolution
Twenty years ago, following the collapse of the Soviet empire, Fidel Castro’s small island faced a food crisis. Today, its network of small urban farmers is thriving, an organic success story that is feeding the nation.
The fragility of global trade and infrastructure
Science fiction movies used to scare us with out-of-control robots bent
on world destruction. If there’s a runaway robot now, it’s global
corporations doing what’s best for the shareholder rather than the
citizens and nations of the world.
Biofuels – Aug 10
Why Wal-Mart wants to sell ethanol /
Imagining the Future of Gasoline: Reality or Blue-sky Dreaming? /
Environmentalists Burn Ethanol Hype as Empty Promise /
DOE To Invest $250 Million In New Bioenergy Centers
Geopolitics – Aug 10
US Army War College: Access to Saudi Arabian oil /
Iran threatens to use ‘oil weapon’ in nuclear standoff /
Kunstler: Heating Up, Melting Down /
Fuel shortages in Lebanon a grave threat to people’s health /
Karbuz: Israel Lebanon War and BTC Pipeline /
Chomsky: Apocalypse near
The fragility of microprocessors
Will computer manufacturing survive during energy descent?
Biofuels – Aug 10
Frankenstein fuels / Sugar, oil prices decouple as biofuel stocks grow / Sweden 2020
CERA’s report is over-optimistic
It is obvious that ASPO, the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas, is a problem for CERA, or maybe a business opportunity, as Daniel Yergin in the overview of the report announce a forthcoming report, “Myths and Legends Concerning Peak Oil”.
Prudhoe Bay – Aug 10
But I thought oil prevented rust / British Petroleum’s ‘Smart Pig’: The Brilliantly Profitable Timing of the Alaska Oil Pipeline Shutdown /
Did BP Purposefully Allow its Alaska Pipeline? / An oil leak rattles a state and its workers / BP was told of pipeline worries in ’04
Peak oil – Aug 10
Oil supply can outpace future demand, CERA says / Daniel Yergin, the “Energy Pope,” deconstructed / Peak oil panic – phase 1 /
Is a wall of oil heading for the market? /
Saudi oil: far from twilight (Michael Lynch)
