Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Last month’s foiled attack on a Saudi Arabian oil installation demonstrated yet again the world’s extreme vulnerability to any check on oil supplies. But what if the Saudi oilfields are running lower on untapped supplies than the kingdom, and the West, have estimated?
What if the US invaded Iraq, not to assure access to its oil reserves, but to keep the oil off the market?
Moscow and Riyadh have reasons for cooperation /
The marketistas want to break Gazprom /
Carbon cloud over a green fuel /
China raises taxes to curb use of energy and timber /
Of rigs and pipelines
Bakhtiari: After ‘peak oil’, ‘peak gas’ too /
When will peak oil tip? (from backwardation to contango) /
Isaac Asimov on his discovery of peak oil at age 13 /
Online lectures from Stanford’s “End of Oil?” series
UN warns of worst mass extinctions for 65m years /
Study says U.S. companies lag on global warming /
Seattle cools down global warming /
New USGS report on managing water in the western U.S. /
Farms ‘big threat’ to fresh water /
In a thirsty world, Canada comes up empty /
Governments ‘must meet water need’
Can a bush solve rural energy needs? /
The role of underutilized plants in preventative medicine, nutrition and sustainability /
Classes: prepare for peak oil /
Green blogs: The Green revolution moves online /
The dark secrets of the organic-food movement /
Green is green ($) /
Statue of Liberty to go all ‘green’ power
Royal Society energy conference in London April 10-11 /
Gallup: Public sees alternative fuels as wave of future /
Oil majors plan to spend more as costs soar /
Russia signs gas deal with China /
Friedman: some conservatives have a new grip on [energy] reality
To hear urban visionary Richard Register tell it, the city of the future will look more like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon than like the crime-ridden, blighted expanse often referred to as the inner-city.
While peak oil is an important turn of the tide, we should not forget that net oil for consumption will peak long before peak oil. Possibly it already has.
The average American consumes six times the energy of the average person in the rest of the world. Yet we don’t seem to realize the cost of our massive energy consumption on the poorer people of the world, on our own health, and the health of the environment. Although interest in Peak Oil is growing, most do not yet fully understand that this means the “American Way of Life” will be over within a few decades.
Sen. Lugar: Energy is the albatross of U.S. national security /
Iranian oil exchange unlikely to begin till at least midyear /
Pentagon looks to cut oil use and costs /
Australia: CSIRO warns of local oil shortfall /
Proposed Mackenzie pipeline spurs coal gasification mega-plan /
Trading the Hummer for a Honda
We need science-based solutions that can be retrofitted into our existing energy chain. We must continually seek to increase the efficiency of converting energy into heat and power. And we must somehow get our respective governments to get serious about a program of international energy research and development
