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Russia said Friday it had ordered the construction of an oil pipeline from its huge Siberian oilfields to the Pacific Ocean opposite Japan, in a move to boost export opportunities throughout East Asia and to the United States.
Higher heating oil prices in the US are encouraging consumers to turn to back to firewood.
If the fuel cell is to become the modern steam engine, basic research must provide breakthroughs in understanding, materials, and design to make a hydrogen−based energy system a vibrant and competitive force.
Heinberg speaks on Peak Oil and other threats to industrial society, the universal ecological dilemma, and coordinated and cooperative responses to our predicament. (2-hour audio)
Global economic forecasters tend to be upbeat. But not this year…The biggest global economic uncertainty is the price of oil.
According to the “World Energy Outlook” report prepared by the International Energy Agency, the world’s energy consumption will increase by 60 percent by 2030. China will rival the US as the biggest consumer and will use 10 million barrels oil per day by 2030.
By reducing greenhouse emissions and ratcheting up new climate-friendly technologies, US companies can create jobs and launch an era of economic growth akin to the start-up phase of the Internet.
Chinese demand for the Alberta oil sands — the second largest reserve of crude on the planet — puts the United States in the difficult position of balancing its commitment to open markets with its desire for secure supplies of energy, says Alberta’s new envoy to Washington.
There is no reason why Hopi cannot generate all of its energy needs while producing power for off-reservation consumer markets. Indeed, that is our goal for the coming decade; to create an energy-based economy that will provide future generations of Hopi with jobs and opportunity.
Dr Hubbert not only predicted the US-48 peak but went on to study the underlying cultural problem. A quote from Clark on Hubbert: “His thesis is that society is seriously handicapped because its two most important intellectual underpinnings, the science of matter-energy and the historic system of finance, are incompatible.”
The lesson of “Collapse” is that societies, as often as not, aren’t murdered. They commit suicide: they slit their wrists and then, in the course of many decades, stand by passively and watch themselves bleed to death. (Review of Jared Diamond’s new book.)
Watching Barry Bonds connect for a homer is a thrill. We are in awe of the distance he can propel a baseball, but we know the ball will land. Why? Gravity, of course. Barry Bonds lives on Earth, not outer space. If he were in space his homers would travel practically forever. What goes up doesn’t necessarily come down, in space.
