Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Peak Oil is a real phenomenon, based on hard science. Ignore it at your peril. At root, the Peak Oil guys are right. How can I emphasize it properly? OK, they are “right, right, right.” Everybody else is “wrong, wrong, wrong.”
Early days in the oil fields: wildcatters, investment fever and dead horses
Wildcatting and exploration in the Canadian Maritimes — how an oil geologist and investor sees the landscape.
Here, then, is a significant report produced by an independent research company for the US Department of Energy, warning of a global problem of “unprecedented” proportions with economic, social, and political impacts that are likely to be extremely severe. The authors forecast “protracted economic hardship” for the United States and the rest of the world. It is a problem that deserves “immediate, serious attention.” Yet, half a year after release, discussion of the Hirsch report is conspicuously absent from the press and the halls of Congress. [updated version late 7/31]
If anything merits drawing the filibuster sword out of its sheath, it is the energy bill that came out of a House/Senate conference this week.
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.
