Saudi King Fahd admitted to hospital
Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz has been admitted to hospital for medical examinations, the royal palace said in a statement carried by the official news agency SPA.
Washington Monthly discovers Peak Oil
…the idea of a world production peak is no longer the province of a small band of “peak oil” cranks. It’s gone mainstream.
Energy Headlines – May 27, 2005
Michael Ruppert interview / UK activists discover PO / City planners do NOT discover PO / The real problems with $50 oil / Amy Goodman on the new pipeline / Tear gas in the Andes / Industry chiefs’ environment plea / Undercutting the [carbon trading] deal / Energy package clears Senate committee / With one lone dissenter / Bill gives Feds authority over LNG sites / Will California have the energy it needs? / Nuclear energy / Why Americans are on the road again / Toxin in plastics harming unborn boys / What’s the big deal about biodiversity? / A revival of hitchhiking would increase respect, cut global warming and improve educational standards
Peak Oil: The Movie!
FOX owned cable channel FX looks set to deal with the events of a sudden catastrophic loss of oil imports due to a shipping disaster.
Energy Headlines – May 25, 2005
California Aggies discover PO / Heinberg interview / Watch the master investor: Buffet is buying energy / Nuclear is the politics of despair / TOD: Cleaning up after elephants / BP demands editorial control / Nationalization! The first two days of Bolivia’s second gas war / U.S. senators mount assault on wind power / Pipeline politics give Turkey an edge / China builds giant malls / Moscow paralyzed by power cut / Navajos debate power plants / Long Beach delays LNG vote / Species extinctions hard on humans / Biogas in Cambodia / Car-free and silent for 17 years
When the wells run dry
We use more oil than we find, and if producers are fixing their figures the end could be closer than thought
Energy Headlines – May 26, 2005
Energy to drive NZ Greens’ election hopes /Seven more energy stories from Globe and Mail / Grist and MN interviews with Kunstler / Town hall meeting on PO a success / Pipelineistan’s biggest game begins / Krugman on the Chinese Connection / Analyst sees surge in offshore wind projects / BP reportedly wants say-so in news coverage / China coal paradox? / Concerns on Saudi oil production / Norway sees injecting CO2 into oil fields as too pricey / LNG terminal in Long Beach / the oil plateau does not mean peak food / Save money on gas, even without a hybrid / SUVs losing their luster
Energy Headlines – May 24, 2005
AP discovers Peak Oil / More oil stories from Globe and Mail / Good news: injecting C02 into oil deposits / Deffeyes on TV / Ruppert to talk in S. Oregon / SA oil minister: we’ll pump more / Mixing left and right equals geo-green/ Environmental neo-con job? / Apocalypse arriving on a tight schedule / China’s coal riches could ease oil insecurity / Coal shortage in China to hit 330M tons by 2010 / Bolivian capital isolated by protests demanding oil nationalization / Latin oil romance / European economic sanctions against Iran could send oil prices higher / Transcript of Alan Greenspan’s May 20 speech / Oil to fuel U.S. job boom
Where to with ‘Emergy’ Literacy?
H.T.Odum first developed the concepts and methods of Emergy accounting, and an increasing number of authorities advocate the discipline as the best, if not the only, way of determining which processes and fuels are actually ‘winners’ in any meaningful way.
Communicating Peak Oil – The Cost of Energy
The Cost of Energy is a new grassroots energy education web site from American Lou Grinzo that is outlining the issues (and the jargon!) in an approachable question and answer format. We asked Lou to outline his starting assumptions and provide some background on the project and himself.
The pipeline that will change the world
It is 42 inches wide, 1,090 miles long and is intended to save the West from relying on Middle Eastern oil. Nothing has been allowed to stand in its way – and it finally opens today
What will we eat as the oil runs out? [update]
A major international conference on “Food Security in an Energy-Scarce World” is planned for June 23-25 in Dublin, Ireland. The conference will seek to answer the question: “How can the world’s population be fed without the extensive use of fossil fuels in the production, processing and distribution of food?” [The impressive list of participants is now available.]
