Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Jimmy Carter put solar heating panels on the White House during his first year in office to promote energy conservation. Ronald Reagan took them off and ushered in the era of market deregulation shortly after he was elected.
Soaring oil prices have raised the stakes in China’s game of brinkmanship over the hotly disputed Spratly Islands, with the Philippines this week becoming the first rival claimant to break ranks.
Indonesia said it may need to buy 54 spot cargoes of LNG between 2005-2007 to meet its overseas sales commitments. Indonesia is the world’s top exporter of LNG, but has been struggling to meet its contractual commitments for the super-cooled, compressed gas as output has declined and supplies have been diverted to the domestic market, mainly to fertiliser plants.
Extra troops are deploying to the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt in support of police battling armed gangs linked to local political groups and an illicit trade in stolen crude.
Power blackouts that have plagued Cubans all summer will continue through the end of the year, an electricity official told local media in an interview published Thursday.
This is a detective story that gets to the innermost core of the 9/11 attacks. It places 9/11 at the center of a desperate new America, created by specific, named individuals in preparation for Peak Oil: an economic crisis like nothing the world has ever seen.
What’s really behind the recent redeployment of U.S. military forces? Making sure no one messes with American access to global energy resources. An excerpt from “Oil: Anatomy of an Industry.”
Nuclear power stations may be operating in New Zealand, a country known for its anti-nuke stance, as soon as 2015 if coal continues to be shunned as a fuel source.
Explosive growth has made the People’s Republic of China the most power-hungry nation on
earth. Get ready for the mass-produced, meltdown-proof future of nuclear energy.
The development and the causes of the Inflationary Boom of the 1920s and provides a basis for comparison with the economic policies of modern-day China. This time, however, the bust may be triggered by peak oil.
Investigators believe they have found a “backdoor” – a deliberately left security opening – in 1,000 of the infamous Diebold electronic voting machines which would allow for vote count manipulation.
“Our mission is to plant ourselves at the gates of hope–not the prudent gates of Optimism, which are somewhat narrower; nor the stalwart, boring gates of Common Sense; nor the strident gates of Self-Righteousness, which creak on shrill and angry hinges (people cannot hear us there; they cannot pass through); nor the cheerful, flimsy garden gate of “Everything Is Gonna Be All Right.” But a different, sometimes lonely place…”
