China’s Great Depression
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.
Backdoor Found In Diebold Vote Counting Program
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.
The Gates of Hope
“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…”
US: Energy Industry, the Party Animals
At lavish invitation-only bashes, corporations can freely spend unregulated dollars to woo political insiders.
At long last, a do-it-yourself hydrogen fuel-cell kit
A company called United Nuclear says it can produce hydrogen fuel cells kits to adapt individual cars to running on hydrogen, but there’s more than a few catches…
ASPO September Newsletter
The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas’s September newsletter is essential reading.
Energy shortage hits Chinese firms
“There are now restrictions forced on us. For two days a week we are not allowed to use any electricity and that means I have to send my workers home,” says Ms Dai.
Bush’s ruinous economic plans
There’s a growing consensus among experts that the most recent wave of oil price hikes is not mainly the result of market manipulation, refining bottlenecks, or the Iraq occupation but the harbinger of the long-predicted depletion of the world’s extractable oil reserves.
Options exhausted, oil firms turn to tar
North America’s crude oil resources have been so thoroughly explored and developed that experts believe that there is hardly any left to find, except perhaps in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Simon Upton forecasts end of industrial era.
The former New Zealand minister for the environment and now chairman of the OECD roundtable for sustainable development wrote in 1997 of his knowledge of the impending global oil peak, but did he really understand the implications of what he was saying?
FuelCell’s Burning Cash
Despite a history that proves fuel cell companies burn a lot of cash but produce precious little energy in doing so, optimistic investors continue to shovel more and more cash into the fire.
Mexican Oil Claims Doubted
Officials at Mexico’s state-owned oil monopoly said Monday that the company has detected massive new oil deposits in the Gulf of Mexico that could potentially double the country’s reserves, but industry analysts cautioned that the company’s findings are still unproven.
