Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff WCCO scoops networks on energy coverage / Pat Robertson’s CBN on peak oil / On production rates and refinery capacity /
Saudi Aramco boosts drilling efforts to offset declining fields (8% gross declines) /
Peak oil: the inflationary case /
Laherrère: When will oil production decline significantly?
Mel Gibson’s portrayal of Satan in “The Passion of the Christ” is the one in the driver’s seat of our modern, petroleum-based civilization careening toward the cliff that is Peak Oil while we all look out the window and enjoy the scenery.
Where to start? The answer to this one is easy. Governments at all levels must start planning, planning, planning for what clearly is to come — be it in five months or five years.
If the average American could live the “good life” of living in a stereotypical Tuscan villa, and if they are shown how they, too, CAN have this lifestyle, then people will literally flock to this structure. Ultimately, this is a POSITIVE vision of the future—not a reversion to feudal serfdom, but a progression to a more egalitarian and human-compatible life…
Nothing has really taken me aback more as secretary of State than the way that the politics of energy is — I will use the word warping — diplomacy around the world.
Until the present time, no U.S. national energy policy has had any true sense of strategic urgency, let alone any staying power.
Is it OK … to have a barbecue? /
The vision thing /
Silicon Valley venture capitalist sees opportunity in green tech
Australian sustainability conference /
Speculators pile into oil /
Geological peak vs. logistical peak /
Stormy weather (investment bank report)
Global warming threatens extinctions /
Lyin’ tamer (“Ask Umbra” on global warming) /
Climate change and the media, reality and the future /
Coal plants’ renaissance pits energy vs. pollution /
Schwarzenegger speech today could put California in forefront of climate change efforts
Rifkin: World on the ‘cusp of a new energy regime’ /
A gentle disagreement on Turkmen gas /
Catfight! (Big Oil vs Big Auto) /
Nuclear power and climate change: is our choice glow or cook? /
New oil is costly for Alaska
Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman has quietly disbanded the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB), the department’s “principal independent advisory board on scientific and technical matters,” reports Nature magazine.
Christophe de Margerie of Total says the problem is not with reserves per se, but with the rates of production, and that we will never be able to reach the production levels predicted by the IEA (International Energy Agency) – or by the US Department of Energy, for that matter – simply because it is taking increasing efforts to get the oil out of the ground and that effort cannot be accomplished with today’s industrial resources.
