Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The journalist’s rule says: follow the money. This rule, however, is not really axiomatic but derivative, in that money, as even our vice president will tell you, is really a way of tracking energy. We’ll follow the energy.
In the June issue of National Geographic, you can read an article called, “The End Of Cheap Oil.” For the opposite perspective, read “Never Cry Wolf — Why The Petroleum Age Is Far From Over” in the current issue of Science.
Federal agency works to finish LNG safety report; consultant says difficult to predict fire potential from spills
The U.S. is falling far behind its rivals in developing alternative energy
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The bulldozer roars, and bites into a patch of green grass in Las Vegas, the city once hailed for making the desert bloom.
THE United States has managed to thrive despite high budget deficits and a staggering level of international indebtedness. Can it also thrive if oil prices remain above $40 a barrel and gasoline costs more than $2 a gallon at the pump?
Europe is still confident that it will be chosen to host Iter, the world’s biggest nuclear fusion reactor.
In Japan and the United States, many fear the dangers of nuclear power — but who in charge cares?
The following article was first published by Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on Sunday 23 May 2004.
Oil is scarcer than ever. The price for petrol is at record levels. The economy, consumers and of course politicians are all worried. Therefore, an urgent appeal to oil producing countries has been made to pump more into the market so that prices once again fall. As in the past, this could happen again; but next year, perhaps, no longer, and thereafter, never again.
After four consecutive meagre harvests, the result of heat waves, droughts and pestilence,the world’s stockpile of grain is perilously low. Is it a harbinger of ‘gastronomical Armageddon?’
Colin Campbell and the Uppsala Hydrocarbon Depletion Study Group has now made the 2004 upgrade of the peak oil model. The peak is moved from 2010 to 2008
THE producers’ cartel that governs world oil supplies last night admitted it had lost control of the latest price rise as oil bubbled back up to near-record highs.
