Ireland’s ‘Hirsch Report’ Released
Ireland is among the most sensitive nations to rising oil prices and therefore will be among the most vulnerable post-peak. Rob Hopkin’s take on the Forfas report on the impacts of peak oil on the Irish economy.
Year: 2006
James Woolsey, hemp advocate
Industrial hemp has an unlikely new champion: former CIA director James Woolsey. Woolsey sees a link between the need to end America’s oil addiction and hemp’s potential as a source of renewable energy.
Open letter to Texas newspapers about peak oil: ‘Why aren’t you listening?’
The US media have two choices regarding the Peak Oil issue. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, you can now have either your honor or the status quo. If you do nothing regarding Peak Oil, you will soon have neither the status quo nor your honor.
TIME on global warming: Be worried. Be very worried.
TIME has an outstanding special issue April 3 on climate change. Many of the articles are online.
Other energy – Apr 4
China to buy Australian uranium /
Chavez rules out return to cheap oil /
Business Week: The road to energy independence /
Demand may outpace Saudi oil capacity /
Obama: Dems should stress oil independence /
Silicon Valley man bankrolls clean-energy initiative /
Merkel calls meeting on German energy
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 4
Mapping as an infill tool /
HP wants your Old PCs back /
A better shade of green for Wall Street /
The small but beautiful ways to save the planet /
Anything into oil (thermal conversion)
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 3
Briquette that heats homes and saves trees in Kenya /
Sterilizing water with solar radiation /
Jason Edens, rural solar advocate /
Nice lawn, M’Lord, but please don’t eat the grass /
How to stop guzzling gas
Peak oil – Apr 3
‘There’s no planet B’ (UK comedian Robert Newman interview) /
Heinberg in Peoria /
African Union: ‘Era of cheap oil is over’
Other energy – Apr 3
Chávez seeks to peg oil at $50 a barrel /
True price of UK’s nuclear legacy: £160bn /
Demand for ethanol grows, prices surge /
Peak sugar!
Demand for sugar is skyrocketing, because of our need for energy and oil-substitutes. An indirect sign of peak oil, if that was ever needed. And it’s happening really, really quickly…
Other energy – Apr 2
Yergin: The world is waking up to new era of power politics /
A role for oil companies in setting climate policy? /
Iran still insisting on Persian Gulf oil bourse /
Woodside, Chevron to benefit from Asia LNG demand /
Make your own Chevy Tahoe commercial /
Soon we’ll pay the true price of air travel
Energy modeler speaks to U.S. Senate
A Stanford study estimated that the odds of a foreign oil disruption happening over the next 10 years are about 80 percent. As a general rule, strategies that reduce our dependence on oil consumption are more effective than policies that reduce our imports.
