Total sees peak oil output around 2020
France’s Total estimates global oil production will peak around 2020 if output growth continues at current levels and has advised governments to cool demand to avoid a supply crunch, its chief executive said.
Year: 2006
Other Energy – Jun 8
Airline association predicts $3bn loss for global industry /
Debate Over Wind Power Creates Environmental Rift /
Survey: Americans Leery Of New Refineries, Nuclear Plants /
For freedom from Big Oil, California looks to Denmark /
Campaign to ‘Kick the Oil Habit’
Is Our Collective Oil Dependence an Addiction? Your Thoughts Please…
What we can learn from innovative approaches to addiction that might prove to be useful tools for weaning communities off oil?
Politics & Economics – Jun 6
Gas fuels new cold war in the Arctic /
Iran threatens oil shipments if attacked by US /
USA out-flanked in Eurasia Energy Politics? /
Iran lawmaker urges re-examining OPEC membership /
Japan: Pouring oil on troubled waters /
Japan Curbs Oil Imports From Iran on Concern Over Disruptions /
Plenty of Oil, but Few Refineries for Iran
Peak Oil – Jun 6
From Farm to Factory: The Energy Challenge We All Face /
A Powerpoint presentation on Peak Oil to Army engineers /
The day after peak oil – Will we die in our cars or retool our communities? /
Are we building highways to oblivion? /
Deconsumption: Revisiting the Crisis Timeline (predictions tested) /
Can non-conventional sources make up the shortfall? Clearly not.
What we choose
One day soon, America will wake up from its infotainment-fueled sleepwalk and start desperately looking for answers to the predicament it finds itself in. A lot of that will revolve around the basic question of where we live, and how things in it are arranged. When that wake-up occurs, the New Urbanists will be ready, reliable, confident, and congenial as always — something like our country used to be.
Other energy – Jun 6
Water Shortage Affects Oil Shale /
US: Uncertainty Surrounds Plans for New Nuclear Reactors /
Australia state: Nuclear power ‘not on’ /
Australia fed: Energy debate must include nuclear option / Auto boom worsens China’s energy crunch
A warm bath of energy — ocean thermal energy conversion
The Earth has an enormous natural solar collector – the tropical oceans. Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is a technology that can extract useful work from solar energy stored in the sea. It may be one of our best hopes for the environmentally clean, sustainable solutions we need to solve our global energy and environmental problems.
Peak Oil – Jun 7
Savinar: Why Are Most Prominent Peak Oil Authors Men? /
Roger Bezdek on the Hirsch followup /
Russia: ‘Era of cheap fuel is over’ /
20 new fields needed every year in the UK
Solutions & sustainability – Jun 7
Peak Moment TV: Community Responses to a Changing Energy Future /
Relocalization – Our Only Solution to Peak Oil /
Mass Natural (on Wal-Mart organics) /
The Grass-Fed Revolution /
Chinese take to solar-powered water heaters /
Australian science body: Solar thermal will soon match coal
Environment – Jun 7
Bulldozing the Bottom of the Sea /
Climate Change: The View From the Patio /
Canadian mayors to go it alone on Kyoto /
Widening tropics ‘will drive deserts into Europe’
Energy geopolitics – Jun 7
EU energy strategy focuses on Russia, China /
The Great Game in Somalia /
American Theocracy /
Nigeria’s oil delta faces escalation of violence /
The Resource Curse: The Pumping and Plundering of West African Oil (audio)
