Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
“The Greens believe we need to have the mechanisms in place to deal with both a short-term emergency, such as this report envisions, and Peak Oil, where we are facing steadily rising prices over the long term and eventual shortages no matter what the price,” [Green Co-Leader] Ms Fitzsimons says.
The government’s recent move of raising prices of cooking gas has led the people in the countryside to resort to using wood for baking bread in their clay oven. … An owner of a shop in Ibb selling clay ovens used for baking bread said he was nowadays selling two to three ovens a day while before the new rise in prices of oil products he was not selling that number in a week.
In 1876, Marx’s collaborator, Frederich Engels, offered a prophetic caveat: “Let us not… flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human conquest over nature. For each such conquest takes its revenge on us.”
One simple rule of thumb regarding Peak Oil is to view it as a film of society running backwards. The cheap air flights all reverse forever into their hangars and the large hotel complexes of inexpensive Mediterranean resorts are unbuilt to the ground. Meantime, the local resorts within a few hundred miles [teem] with activity…
Demand and Economics, or are we mushrooms? / America’s energy future on AirAmerica / ResourceInvestor on oils record week / Denver to host ASPO-USA seminar in November / Oil shale drive has risks for the West (US)
Fusion energy has tantalized scientists for more than half a century as a possible source of limitless, reliable power.
But the technology to create the power of a star on Earth and use it to produce electricity remains at least five decades away, according to U.S. government experts.
In the same way that coal- burning plants sired nuclear power plants, researchers see fusion as the next step in the evolution of electric power plants.
In a world worried about global warming and escalating coal, oil and gas prices, the nuclear industry has seized an opportunity for rebirth.
Nuclear advocates are working to reshape the atom’s image from that of an environmental nightmare and utility bankrupter to an affordable and Earth-friendly energy source – and a hedge against future energy shortages.
Whether the inducements will convince any utility that building a new reactor is financially prudent is uncertain.
Indonesia’s pressures mount / Renewable energy is the key, says Kalam / Indian President seeks ‘Energy Independence’ / Taipei Times: Time to conserve energy / Chavez to Give Latin Countries Priority in Developing Heavy Oil / China Rationing Gasoline And Diesel Fuel / Gasoline stations jammed as fuel crisis deepens / China: Where has all the oil gone? IEA wonders
The Government has made the call to people to appreciate the looming crisis arising out of the unabated price of oil in the world market. According to Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye the country should face this challenge squarely and close ranks.
Germany says auf Wiedersehen to nuclear power, guten Tag to renewables / What We Don’t Eat: Revolting waste / Nigers’ crisis not simply due to swarming insects and drought / Errors found in analysis of data used to discount global warming / The Right to be Cold / Ice is not all that’s going to disappear as the climate warms / Toxic 100 Index lists top corporate air polluters / West Nile disease toll on birds soaring
Truckers stop work over fuel prices / Iran: Oil embargo best response to nuclear boycott / Dangerous curves on Turkey’s energy policy / Venezuela tax agency closes Shell office / Better Ask Santa For Gasoline / China grapples with high oil prices / Oil price rise puts squeeze on UK industry / How expensive oil hurts consumers / Oil Prices, Amid Global Concerns, Surge to a Record / Euro rivals cut off UK gas pipeline / Has India sacrificed at Washington’s altar? / A Superfluous Petroleum Reserve? / June Trade Deficit Surged as Oil Price Resumed Climb / U.S. trade deficit widens on flood of Chinese textiles, oil imports
Depletion and advanced extraction techniques / W.F.Buckley: Looking ahead – oil / Coming closer to the tipping point.. / Tick Tick Tick / Reality behind the oil game / The hike in oil prices: Peak Oil or price cycle? / Will America be ready when oil supply peaks? / Peak Oil Survey
