Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Streetlights along the main boulevard outside the Forbidden City have been dimmed to half their normal brightness. It’s the latest evidence of China’s worsening electricity shortage, a stark symbol of its overheated economy.
A unique arrangement off the coast of Louisiana could soon allow wind turbines to be placed on derelict off-shore oil rigs.
Britain came within an ace of becoming a net oil importer for the first time in 13 years in May, helping the country’s trade deficit widen unexpectedly to £3.4 billion.
Due to summer’s unquenchable power thirst, about 6,400 industrial enterprises in and around Beijing will be shut down for a week.
I would venture to speculate that the coming together of the strongest armada in history has more to do with oil and natural gas and nothing to do with Taiwan.
Michael C. Lynch, the most vocal critic of Colin Campbell and other oil depletion ‘pessimists,’ tries to point out that within this debate we are dealing with a lot of assumptions and many unknowns.
The government of Ontario Wednesday announced plans to rebuild one nuclear power plant in Pickering and possibly rebuild two others.
On August 14, 2004, Venezuelan voters will decide on a referendum, which has the utmost world historic and strategic significance. What is at stake is nothing less than the future of the energy world, the relations between the US and Latin America (particularly Cuba), and the political and socio-economic fate of millions of Venezuela’s urban and rural poor.
When Richard Heinberg wrote The Party’s Over he expected that global oil production peak would most likely to fall within the window of 2006 to 2015. These days (18 months after the book was finished) he’s “more likely to say 2006 to 2010.” Here’s nine events which explain that.
North America will experience the highest sustained natural gas prices in
history if no measures are taken to boost supply or damp demand, according to a
study released on Friday by Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA).
The booklet addresses the topic of Peak Oil in a novel and refreshing way, as a commentary on an imaginary Public Inquiry.
When John Kerry is president, decades-old ties with Saudi Arabia could be in for an overhaul as he combats terrorism and reduces U.S. dependence on Mideast oil.
