Can’t see the Future for the Trees
Biofuels contribute to some of the very problems they seek to address. The search for a sustainable energy source has uncovered some surprising options.
Year: 2006
Briefing for the Descent
Arguments for a survivalist response to Peak Oil are becoming common, but depend on improbable scenarios of sudden collapse. In the face of the century or more of decline that forms the most likely future for the industrial world, other responses — outlined in this essay — offer a more realistic plan for dealing with the transition to a deindustrial world.
About the Oil Depletion Protocol
The next few years may offer humankind its last, best opportunity to avert resource wars, terrorism, and economic collapse as it enters the second half of the Age of Oil. If we grasp that opportunity and succeed, we could set a precedent for cooperative, peaceful approaches to all of the resource problems we are likely to encounter during the coming century. The choice we face is between competition and conflict on one hand, and voluntary moderation and mutual assistance on the other. The first steps toward the latter can be readily taken by endorsing and adopting this simple agreement.
Hit the Road Jack
There’s no arguing the fact that the successful test results from Chevron’s newest golden boy in the Gulf of Mexico, lightly called Jack, are truly noteworthy. But we need to put some things into perspective before falling head over heels in love.
Discovery – Sept 6
Chevron bullish on deep GOM discovery
BG finds more gas in North Sea
Other Energy – Sept 6
Russian agency sues to stop Shell on Sakhalin
Cost blowout hits Woodside LNG
Ghana: Power Crisis Worries Gold Miners
Turkey offers $130bn in energy investments
Solutions and Sustainability – Sept 6
Car-Sharing Merges Into the Mainstream
Island to vote on energy independance plan
WA Minister alludes to oil peak in broadside on PM
Relocalize.net invite
Climate – Sept 6
Deep ice tells long climate story
Meteorologists linking drought to climate change
UK Energy review ignores climate change tipping point
Insurers ‘too short sighted’ to tackle climate change
Insurers told to do more to tackle climate change
Clarification of the Huge Chevron Gulf Oil Discovery
The September 5th announcement by Chevron and Devon and Statoil of the huge Gulf of Mexico discovery should be clarified. The announcement claims that the discovery could increase US proven reserves of oil by as much as 50%. However, the total amounts are highly speculative.
Biofuels – Sept 6
New Zealand firm makes bio-diesel from sewage
Fish fat to fuel in Vietnam
Rabobank: Biofuel industry unviable without Govt support
Time to slow down on biofuels?
Palm oil prices to rise
Remember, remember the 5th of September, 2000
How rising fuel prices in the year 2000 sparked the protest of British citizens and brought the entire nation to a halt by stopping the flow of petroleum products for nine days.
Why the Survivalists Have Got It Wrong.
I have very little time for the survivalist response to peak oil, and on the back of a new article about it, Preparing for a Crash: Nuts and Bolts by Zachary Nowak, perhaps it is time to deconstruct the whole survivalist argument, which is still a strong theme in the peak oil movement.
