Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Oil Sands’ Natural Gas Demand Expected to Triple /
Are Gasoline Alternatives Fuel for a Revolution? /
EU countries seek to annex lucrative tract of Atlantic seabed /
Oil price surge may delay airline recovery /
Can oil companies handle more storms? /
Saudi oil production for April dropped to 9.1 million b/d
Investment implications of an abrupt climate change / Al Gore on “Fresh Air” and ABC / Desert cities are living on borrowed time, UN warns
Car culture runs over life /
Learning from Easter Island – crunch time for planet earth /
Scientists Say Arctic Once Was Tropical /
Bush energy plan whacks conservation
The possibility of future disruptions in the supply of oil is real and growing. Insurers may be affected in many ways – with implications that are as significant as the costs from Hurricane Katrina. [Analysis by a professional in the insurance industry.]
What do we really know about oil market fundamentals? This discussion of the avoidable and unavoidable pitfalls in oil statistics will probably change your opinion.
Follow-up to the Hirsch Report: “Economic Impacts of Liquid Fuel Mitigation Options” / Interview with report co-author Roger Bezdek /
Communities Magazine special on PO and sustainability /
MoveOn.org prioritizes “energy independence” / Energy strategies for the mining industry / No technofixes for PO / BBC scrapes the barrel to stand up PO theory
Critics blast Al Gore’s documentary as ‘realistic’ (The Onion) / College Republicans run a “global cooling” snow cone stand /
America’s obsession with that green patch in the yard
Anger at oil chief’s $400m retirement package / Pelamis: a shot in the dark? (wave energy) / New Scientist report on energy and fuels / Squandering energy in the East / Mexicans cling tightly to `their’ oil
In a recent commentary, Prof. Dowlatabati stated that peaking of conventional oil production (Peak Oil) will simply mark another energy crossroads characterized by a seamless transition to non-conventional oil sources. This prediction can be readily refuted by simple “back-of-the-envelope” analyses, and the future reality will be much different.
What must it be like, do you suppose, to be a fireman rushing though a burning building, coming across a wealthy gentleman in his grand apartment who insists that, well, this is nothing, there is often smoke in the halls this time of the week – it is likely Mrs. O’Reilly burning her biscuits again.
Road to Perdition (the ‘streetcar conspiracy’) /
Shell looks to turn sand into oil /
Oil-Rich Venezuela Looks to Tar Deposits /
Ethantol: Lessons from Brazil /
GMO bacterium to produces 86% ethanol
Canada Pays Environmentally for U.S. Oil Thirst /
Too many folk on a planet too hot for comfort /
Drought worsens China water woes /
Atlantic Hurricane season opens /
Bush administration censors scientists again /
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