Green power’s potential
Summary of the major forms of renewable energy, and how they are being implemented locally in Ohio.
“In all likelihood, events are now set to run their course”
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.”
Fossil Fuel Headlines – 28th July, 2005
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’s Despair
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 three years of Peak Oil
What is the third date in the great Peak Oil saga? It is the year in which alternate energy sources finally offset the equivalent decline in crude oil production. Prior to that date, oil production will in general keep falling but the energy equivalent delivered by solar, wind, nuclear, etc. will always be less.
Looming energy crunch fuels international conflict and instability
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.
Sustainability and Environment Headlines – 27th July, 2005
Farmers market feeding the poor / Couple does its part to avoid guzzling resources / How To Do Decentralized Energy / Lending a Hand to Argentina’s Protesters / The Green Machine That Could Be Detroit / Academics propose teaching organic farming / Report gives Nova Scotia a reality check, proposes new energy strategy / More and Dumber People – Hot and Hotter Planet / Climate change inevitable: Minister / Rainbow Warrior interrupts Newcastle’s coal operations / Farms spew out nitrogen oxides / Methane May Pack Double the Climate Punch of Earlier Estimates / Planet of the Plants / Mayor calls for action to fight global warming / Congress Told Hydrogen Fuel Decades from Being Practical / With a Push From the U.N., Water Reveals Its Secrets / Power plants worried as heat wave warms Great Lakes
David Holmgren: permaculture and energy descent
David’s talk focused on understanding how the decline in availability of inexpensive fossil fuels will impact society, and then segued into permaculture’s positive potentiality in the impending Energy Descent world
Fossil Fuel Headlines – 26th July, 2005
Colin Campbell Savages Oil Majors’ “Profits from Scarcity” / How Existing Energy Technologies Can Offset Peak Oil / The Enron of OPEC / I Cannot Yet Skin A Deer / Here’s mud in your eye / Looking Back to the Peak: A Letter from the Future / End of Oil / What happens if oil output ‘peaks’? / US Transportation Energy Data Book: A Bible for Oil Deception / Norway’s oil output at 11-year low
World’s third largest exporter blames ‘technical problems’ for decline / Shift on MTBE May Clear Way for Energy Bill / Indonesia hit by petrol shortages / Cubans sweating out summer of power and water shortages / Powering the Future / US energy bill would nearly double ethanol output / Uncertainties Slow Push for Nuclear Plants / Michael Bagley – From Capitol Hill / Unocal Board Accepts Chevron’s Raised Bid
Organic farming uses less energy for same yields
Organic farming produces same the corn and soybean yields as conventional farms, but consumes less energy and no pesticides, a Cornell study finds.
Fossil Fuel Headlines – 24th July, 2005
Gas price rumor causes fueling frenzy In Michigan / Surfing the tsunami of change: following up with Plan B preparations / Oilcast: China, The Yuan and oil / Demand Destruction: Sir Bob, Bono and Peak Oil / New Statesman review of Twilight in the Desert / Rationing /
Yemen: Price hike enrages public / Yemen: 13 Dead in Riots Over World Bank-Backed Price Hikes / Shortages aren’t over, Duncan says [Canadian] Energy Minister blames previous government for problems / Hybrid Cars Burning Gas in the Drive for Power / States pull the plug on electricity deregulation / California: Emergency declared for state energy grid / Dilemma over diesel / As prices climb, more drivers flee pumps without paying / China Unpegs Itself / PINR Intelligence Brief: Unocal / Russia ready to deliver 15 million tons of oil to China in 2006 / High fuel costs threaten to choke off Asia’s burgeoning growth
Sustainability and Environment Headlines – 25 July, 2005
Heaven Help Bus – A visit to Iceland spurs dreams of a hydrogen future / Don’t Get Fresh With Me! / Will quantifying industrial symbiosis improve the world? / Bringing organic farming down to earth / Horse-and-Plow Farming Making a Comeback / Students Flock to Campus Organic Farms / Scientist testifies on global warming / Warming Up to a New Task / A Bid to Chill Thinking – Behind Joe Barton’s Assault on Climate Scientists / Let the Real Climate Debate Begin / US Senate Panel Begins Work on Greenhouse Gas Cuts / Green groups target ExxonMobil in change of tactics / Alaska preserve hangs in the balance / World Bank to Take Lead in New Climate Change Plan
