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Until the recent oil price hikes and world wide discussions on the future of oil, Peak Oil was nearly absent in military publications. Now, things have changed. This article attempts to provide a US military literature review on Peak Oil and related issues.
“To the best of my knowledge I never had a security briefing which said what some of these very serious but conservative petroleum geologists say, which is that they think that either now or before the decade is out that we’ll reach peak oil production globally … This needs much more serious debate. It’s almost not discussed at all in the mainstream media.” [Clinton also comments on climate change and how to present the issues.]
At last weekend’s Lucerne Fuel Cell Conference, Ulf Bossel, the organizer, made a pretty signinficant announcement
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UK Energy Trends, Coal /
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China can claim for itself a ranking among the world advanced countries in the car industry and has formed a strategy to transform its car energy system.
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G8: Nuclear = prosperity and climate change solution /
Oxford Research: Nuclear no energy security solution /
UK: Go-ahead for £12bn atomic revival /
UK: Sweetening nuclear pill with green power /
Minister: Renewables alone cannot fill energy gap /
Advisers: Neither can nuclear /
Monbiot: Nuclear safer, but still bad /
U.S. to Negotiate Russian Storage of Atomic Waste /
Nuclear Waste Looms As Challenge in Asia
US DOE Releases Roadmap for Cellulosic Ethanol /
Biofuels, Petro-fuels = Liquid Fuels (Part One) /
Patzek: The Real Biofuel Cycles /
Ethanol won’t solve energy problems /
USDA Questions Sugar-To-Ethanol Profits
Real Oil Crisis (online video) /
Bakhtiari: oil industry hits peak production /
‘Mission Accomplished’ – High oil prices are here to stay /
Trouble South of the border: Mexico’s oil production /
Opec: ‘We do not subscribe to the peak-oil theory’
Good old kerosene and its derivatives remain as the world’s aviation fuel, not just of choice, but of necessity, for the indefinite future. So Peak Oil or no, if mankind is going to fly, it appears that the world is locked into fossil-fuel based technology for the long term.
