Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Hurricane Rita coverage from The Oil Drum / On Low Quality Hydrocarbons / For Oil Companies, Less Is More / How US can cope when gas prices surge / Push to build new US refineries / Richard Branson, Oil Tycoon?
IEA Official: Oil ‘like a girlfriend’ – leave her before she leaves you / Petrotheism / Peak Oil War – A World Peace Story / New Poster Illustrates History, Impending Peak of World Oil Production / Matt Simmons on Brian Lehrer Show / Manuel Collares-Pereira discusses energy after 2005 ASPO conference / Experts disagree on how long oil supply will last
Sweden To Try To End Fossil Fuels Dependency By 2020 – PM / On speed limits and gas consumption / New Orleans: 5 Point Strategy for Sustainable Rebuilding / Free U.S. Program provides solution for more clean energy
Iraq suffers severe water shortage / A Warning From Tony Blair’s Top Science Advisor / It would seem that I was wrong about big business / Global Warming ‘Past The Point Of No Return’ / World’s top firms continue climate crimes
Measure Of natural resource wealth shows developing countries in the red / Poll: 8 in 10 want drivers to drop SUVs / Venezuela to sell direct to US poor / In oil boom, Mexico’s Pemex struggles / Nigerian militia threatens oil installations over arrest / Greens: Ireland ‘must switch to renewable energy’ / Cheap Gas Is a Bad Habit / Katrina to drive rig cover costs up by 50%
Southern Nevada has plenty of sunshine and solar power, but companies installing solar power systems are dealing with a shortage of photovoltaic panels.
Britain’s burgeoning rail network / Simple Fixes for Saving Energy / China’s clouds of pollution signal opportunity for some / The Week in Green Vehicles / Speculative Ecodesign for Osaka / California solar roofs bill: hope is not dead
Kenneth Deffeyes, former colleague of M. king Hubbert, frequently tells the story of how he knew Hubbert was right about his US oil peak prediction when he read the headline “Texas Railroad Commission announces 100% allowable” in 1971. The American cartel was pumping full blast.
I wonder what he thought when he read this headline…
A review of Amory Lovins, “More Profit with Less Carbon”. In short, Lovins throws a lot of numbers around, but far too many of the ones he provides are irrelevant, meaningless, or misleading. The road ahead is much more difficult than he portrays.
MYTH NO. 3: We’re running out of oil.
REALITY: This one is true. Sort of. Unlike wind or water, oil is not a renewable resource. So by definition we’re using it up, in the same way that we are all dying all the time. …
The real problem with the peak-oil argument has less to do with engineering than with philosophy. It lacks imagination.
Japan’s dress-down drive saved power worth 240,000 homes / Organic Agriculture Enters Mainstream / “Green” gas station opens, selling only renewable fuel / Victorian govt. backs car sharing / Report proposes ‘energy police’ to make UK go green
OPEC May Offer Every Barrel of Oil Members Can Pump / Iran announces gasoline ‘smart cards’ to moderate consumption / Economists’ No. 1 fear: energy prices / Go ahead, make Putin’s day. Drive a giant SUV / Petrol to factor in ACTU wage claim / The great American airlines disaster / Airlines’ Bankruptcies May Impact Service [!]
