Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
EIA: US oil demand growth has picked up /
Upward trend for electricity use /
Summer brings air conditioner wars /
Utility chairmen asks how to ensure power / Metropolitan Dubai and the rise of architectural fantasy /
What’s up at Pemex? /
It’s the oil, stupid
Will FERC force LNG terminals on unwilling communities? /
Michael Bagley on the energy bill /
Salon: The porking of the energy bill /
Big Brother at work by Michael Klare
New discovery by oil companies – sustainability /
Car columnist says cheap oil gone forever /
Systems, interdependencies and peak oil /
Strapped commuters seek fuel bargains /
Oilcast: Riots, power cuts and Colin Campbell… /
Huge oil profits go for exploration /
Big oil’s output is shaky, but not its profits /
Wales: Fears over future energy sources /
Oil depletion? It’s all in the assumptions
Why, after being so implacably opposed for so long to the Kyoto protocol, did the US perform a U-turn yesterday? To the complete surprise of even its closest allies, it announced a new pact with five Asian-Pacific states to cut greenhouse gases. Together the six states – Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea plus the US – account for over 40% of the six global warming gases that are already changing our climate.
Tony Marmont Speaks About His Energy Farm / To market, to market / Going Green? Put Fruit in Your Tank, says Cyprus / A Local Eating Rhapsody
Moves afoot to counter U.S. Big Oil’s clout / Amy’s Kitchen pledges to use locally grown produce / Within Limits: Symptoms of Overshoot / First Field Tests in Germany of Low-Temperature Fuel Cells for Homes / Global Warming’s Strange Harvest / Why steelhead would say: ‘It’s the water, stupid!’
/ The Snow Must Go On / Australia: climate change wake-up call / Report: Big 5 ink new climate pact / US: climate deal complements Kyoto
US moves to sideline Kyoto / Local Initiatives to Address Climate Change / Top Ten George W. Bush Solutions For Global Warming / When it comes to the carbon crunch / Paleoclimate or Paleopolitics? / Small planet seeking saviour /
A turn for the better / Research clears cows of climate criminal status / Review of Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
The US House and Senate have finally passed the long-awaited energy bill. The response from several US newspapers: “We’re underwhelmed.” Also, the EPA held back a report on fuel efficiency until after the bill was passed.
As the world seeks new sources of power, renewable energy, such as solar, wind and biofuel, is being tapped to a greater degree than ever. They are called renewable because they replenish themselves.
Summary of the major forms of renewable energy, and how they are being implemented locally in Ohio.
A few days ago Roger Pielke Jr. pointed to a paper (PDF) by Tim Dyson of the London School of Economics called “On development, demography and climate change: The end of the world as we know it?” Pielke called it “refreshingly clear thinking on climate change.” That’s true, if by “refreshingly clear” he means “weep-silently-aplogize-to-your-children-and- throw-yourself-out-a-window depressing.”
Oregon Dept. Transport takes a peak at the future / The `peak oil’ controversy / Peak Oil: the turd on the table / The Problem with Natural Gas / Zimbabwe’s Bustle, Business Evaporate With Fuel Shortage / Video – Deffeyes predicts oil peak for Thanksgiving, 2005 / Yudhoyono: Indonesia’s oil to run out in next 15 years / Brazil to Achieve Oil Self-sufficiency by December / Venezuela May Not Meet Oil Output Goal, JPMorgan Says / UK Generators turn to coal as cost of natural gas soars / UK increasingly reliant on oil, gas / UK NG: The big chill / Living on brink of blackouts / Cost of electricity rising like summer heat / Regional power grid operator reports largest-ever peak load / The other gas is going up in price / Science of oil rigs: surviving Gulf storms / Uranium Demand Places Utah in Mining Mix / UK power industry backs future role for nuclear / Bush urges agencies to assess possible coal shortage / I haven’t felt much like discussing the Energy Bill… / The World Is Round: John Gray reviews Thomas Friedmans The World is Flat / Yemen cuts fuel prices after riots / Oil inflames Nigeria’s ethnic tensions / Exxon to Post Surge in Profit on Record Oil Prices, New Fields / Japans provocation in East China Sea very dangerous / Will China pose a threat to world energy security? / Provisions to Curb Oil Use Fall Out of Energy Bill / A crude approach / Energy Bill: Obnoxious-lite / Bush proposal calls for new drilling offshore / Bill Wouldn’t Wean U.S. Off Oil Imports, Analysts Say / Lawmakers Reach a Deal on New Energy Policies / The energy bill’s effect on [California]
Jim Kunstler is a neo-con in despair. Many who are familiar with Kunstler’s work will find this statement surprising, perhaps even preposterous. But, in my view, it’s a perfectly logical inference, based on Kunstler’s recent work.
The big losers from the energy shortage are likely to be the world’s poor nations. Between them, the U.S., Western Europe and Japan—the old industrial centers—and the rising economies of Asia are driving up prices to levels that most of sub-Saharan Africa and countries such as Yemen and Bangladesh will not be able to afford.
