Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Oil Crash: A New 90 minute documentary on the planet’s dwindling oil resources /
[Barrons] Twilight in the Desert: an interview on peak oil with Matthew Simmons /
Energy, the Big Story of 2005 /
“Urgent Oil Apocalypse Brief” /
Predicting US Production with Gaussians /
There Has To Be A Crisis /
Going Local conference
New Caspian pipeline to secure Western oil supply / Ukraine, Russia, Natural Gas: Ideology or Hypothermia? /
Gazprom — A Troubled Giant /
Gazprom raises pressure on three more nations as price row widens /
Australia: US push for gas exports /
Europe seeks home-grown power solutions /
US reiterates strong opposition to Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline /
Morales seals energy accord with Chávez /
Norway: Politician wants to spread the oil wealth, literally
Computers are the top card in the house-of-cards complex civilization we built with coal and oil, argues Alice Friedemann. How do we leave our descendents knowledge they can use and be amazed by, information to fuel the next Renaissance?
Professor Richard Harris talks to Trevor Shaw about the logic of suburbia and the future of sprawl.
The Greening of Goldman Sachs / Watching as the world vanishes / Ancient Global Warming Flipped Ocean Circulation, May Do So Again / U.S. Storm Water Rules Revised to Exempt Oil and Gas Development / Oil and Gas Zones Cover One-Quarter of the Peruvian Amazon / Oil, Gas Pose Arctic Environmental Challenges / On Truth, Fact, Values, Climate Change, and Doughnuts / One region’s bid to slow global warming / Drier, Tainted Nevada May Be Legacy of Gold Rush
The Peak Oil Crisis: New Years 2006
/ Robert Hirsch on peak oil mitigation
/ Hirsch Tells It Like It Is
/ Leaders ignore oil depletion
/ Oil Analysts, Wrong Since 2001, End Forecasts of Price Drop
/ Ken Deffeyes: Thanksgiving day speech
/ Simmons: $250 oil?
/ Abiotic vs. Peak Oil debate is on
Kremlin reasserts control of oil, gas /
Europe Frets About Russian Energy Reliance /
IEA Deputy Head:Russia Gas Cut Is A “Serious Mistake” /
European gas crisis is warning to Britain /
Middle East gas critical for global energy supply /
Porter: Oil Market Outlook 2006: Future Imperfect /
Iraq’s oil exports hit lowest level since war oil /
Iraq moves to tackle fuel crisis /
Word Spreads in Iraq of Refinery Shutdown /
Blood Flows With Oil in Poor Nigerian Villages /
Shell ships 1st oil from Nigeria’s 1st deepwater field
Given that the universe is energy, it may be of interest to contemplate evolution itself as a competition for access to that energy.
If I might be so presumptous as to suggest a few things you might like to read in the New Year…. here are 10 books I am really enjoying that you might find useful if you are interested in designing solutions for energy descent.
There is a lot of talk about the hydrogen economy. It is at best naïve, and at worst it is dishonest. A hydrogen economy would be a pitiful, impoverished thing indeed.
As expected, following its threats in recent weeks (made in order to get an increase in the price Ukraine “pays” for its gas) Russia has somewhat reduced its deliveries of gas to Ukraine, and as expected, Ukraine has retaliated by reducing transit gas to the West. But there is nothing to worry about.
For those who have begun planning for a low-energy future, the main concerns are rightly food, transportation, heat, health care and local production of goods of all kinds. On a recent trip to Chicago, however, I began thinking about the fate of our great artistic and cultural institutions
