Peak oil – July 15
Peak oil passnotes: where Is the recession? /
Using community radio to communicate peak oil (N. Calif.) / Potential impact of Cantarell’s decline on Mexico’s oil production
Year: 2006
Energy policy – July 15
Venezuela’s oil sales to U.S. drop as Chavez sends more to Asia / Russia and Iran lead the new energy game /
Africa scrambles for new energy as blackouts bite / The G-8’s risky nuclear embrace
Biofuels and wind – July 15
Indonesia to spend a massive US$ 22 billion by 2010 to promote biofuels / Lester Brown: supermarkets and service stations now competing for grain / Challenges emerge for wind power (costs up 70%)
Other energy – July 15
British Petroleum’s “Statistical Review of World Energy 2006” / ODAC comments on BP’s Review / CNN special: fueling America /
Deep ocean energy resources – a critical analysis / Saudi Arabia tests potential for unlocking heavy-oil reserves / Interview with Jeff Goodell, author of “Big Coal”
Technical solutions – July 15
Why pellets are packing the power / A hundred thousand points of light: Thinking out of the grid / Energy surety for mission readiness (microgrids and the military) / Movie casts the electric car as hero, GM as bad guy
Targeting coal: protest mounts
Anyone concerned about the burning of fossil fuels and resultant climate change is scared beyond words because of the prospect of coal usage growing or continuing. (Also: a discussion of Earth First! and its anti-coal protests.)
Study cites plan to end U.S. oil imports
Sympathetic coverage of a plan by Roger Bezdek, coauthor of “The Hirsch Report.” The four-part plan suggests: coal-to-liquid (Fischer-Tropsch process), pumping CO2 into old oil fields, biomass as a feedstock for synthetic fuel, and oil shale.
All dreams at break of day
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft is being designed and built for a future world of highly priced fuel. This new aircraft is a dream at break of day, at the dawn of the post-Peak Oil world.
Blog to cover international peak oil conference in Italy
For those who can’t make the trip to Pisa for this year’s international Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO), the next best thing could be a visit to ASPO-5 Live, a near real-time weblog. July 18-19.
Coping with high oil prices
The most surprising feature of the current oil crisis is that it does not really feel like a crisis. Why haven’t high energy prices forced a recession?
Sandia Labs proposes energy surety model
With concerns that energy use will rapidly increase over the next several years while fossil fuels diminish as well as numerous other energy uncertainties including the results of climate change, Sandia National Laboratories is proposing applying the principles of surety to energy.
Environment – July 14
First half of 2006 Is warmest on record for U.S. /
Global warming: They’re not laughing at Ron Sims now / UK MPs: ‘Climate change should be taken out of politics to allow radical remedies’ /
Global warming ‘will cancel out Western aid and devastate Africa’
