Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Owner of oldest commercial oil field believes in Peak Oil / UK ‘Peak Oil’ website passes landmark / New Energy Currents – an overview / Global warming in the New Yorker, part 3 / The Lessons of Easter Island / History shows that true innovation has disappeared from our society / 2,000 more wind turbines in UK countryside / Tilting at windmills: nation split over energy eyesores
The 5 steps in the future energy system must include amplification / Congress touts ’green energy,’ but bill is black and blue / Greenspan: Oil supplies to grow / U.N. report says biodiversity on decline / ** Biofuels special ** / Like Easter Island, only with cars / The rape of the rainforest… and the man behind it / Brazil’s backing biodiesel / From rainforest to biodiesel / Alternative fuels – promises and perils / Wind farms ‘must take root in UK’ / Neva Goodwin, ecological economist, answers readers’ questions / A green(er) IT / Reader asks about connection between PO and biodiversity
Since neither production nor consumption have historically followed a smooth curve – up or down – and since there is an economic interaction between demand, consumption and production, we should expect the peak of consumption to be characterized by a series of alternating cycles. Periods of shortage will be separated by periods of surplus. [Chapters 1 and 2 of Ronald Cooke’s Oil, Jihad and Destiny]
On the road with Heinberg in South Africa / Apollo Energy Act contrasts sharply with “Jurassic” GOP energy bill / Bolivians reject gas laws / A Castro ally with oil cash vexes the US / Saudi ‘could double oil output’ / Economic Tsunami: Coming Sooner Than You Think / They Really Are Watching You / Crises, survivalism and the rural life
… The requirement is therefore for an Energy “Clearing Union” comprising all market participant constituencies whether producers, consumers or intermediaries, constituted as an “International Energy Trade Association” (“IETA”) and served by a consortium of providers of services such as communications, technology, risk management and so on.
McKillop: Amoco’s magic curve / How to ease yourself across the oil peak / Senators seek bipartisan energy bill / Scharzenegger weighs in on federal energy bill / California: importing power, fostering pollution / Latin states seek more control of oil / Foreign gas companies in Bolivia face higher taxes / Bolivia erupts / China: Danger of melting Everest glaciers / Julian Darley and Celine Rich interviewed / Global wind map may provide better locations for wind farms / City folk support farmers through CSAs / Small family farms ‘may vanish’ in UK / Organic farming pioneer dies / Vegetable puppets fight back against industrial agriculture
CS Monitor reviews Deffeyes / McKillop: Shift to the Euro would lock-in higher oil prices / PO Conference in Sweden May 23 / Review of “The Long Emergency” / How a clever world could self-destruct / Energy is behind troubles in Uzbekistan / … in Bolivia / … in Ecuador / Australia and East Timor / Arctic oil search moves to new turf, new controversies / Oil and Gas drilling could contaminate precious aquifers / Scotland nuclear safety failures revealed / Ultra-clean coal / Saudi oil minister comments on oil supply / North Sea oil production continues decline / IEA: World oil demand growth slows / China: ignore its
oil thirst at your own peril / UK City hedge funds head for domino collapse / A Higher Power Informs the Republican Assault on the Environment / US Rejects Airline Climate Taxes, EU Considers / How almost everyone in Kerala learned to read / Kudzu root extract may curb excess drinking
American-backed plans to build a nearly 1,100-mile-long oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean are about to go from what skeptics once called a “pipe dream” to a reality.
A critical evaluation of M. King Hubbert and a projection of 2008 as the year of Peak Oil in this confernence paper by Jean Laherrère.
Viridian Greens confront Kunstler / What’s on the other side of the Hubbert Curve? / Alien American dream changes the Earth as some of us awaken / Bush urges development of alternate fuels /
Oil giants gambling on “green” fuel / Old foes soften to nuclear / Government report gives new wind to green energy in UK / Accidents reveal troubles at Mexico’s oil monopoly / New issue of HopeDance / Rural enterprises in UK and Czech Rep. / New issue of CSIRO newsletter / How do Japanese dump trash? Let us count the myriad ways / China’s quest for a modern flush / Argentine town hopes to transform wind into windfall
You might think that the last thing on the mind of someone sitting on a newly discovered billion-barrel oil find would be alternative fuels. You would be wrong.
ROME – Italian troops were sent to Iraq to secure oil deals worth 300 billion dollars, and not just for post-war humanitarian purposes, an Italian television report by RAI claimed on Friday.
