National Security to Lead Renewable Energy Deployment
And the one mantra rising above the conference chatter that might create enough political muscle to kick-off that shift [to renewables] can be summed up in two words: National Security.
Jesse Broehl
Hostage to oil
World supply is so precious that more price spikes are inevitable …”The first message American consumers need to hear,” says A. G. Edwards’s O’Grady, “[is] if you think the price of oil and gasoline has been volatile, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.” (Excellent article)
Taking a peak
Concern over world’s oil supply fuels discussion over alternatives, technology
The Prosperous Way Down
Let’s start with the premise that resource scarcity and rising costs cause the global economy to contract. Let’s not be concerned here with the timing, but consider what can be expected and what our adapting strategies should be to conditions that force descent.
North Slope gas hydrates starting to look feasible
An investigation team reports that gas hydrates could become a source of natural gas within a few years
Scania presentation includes Peak Oil
Scania, the Swedish truck manufacturer, recently made a presentation at the Tokyo Motor Show. It includes the Peak Oil prediction from ASPO, and talks about the need to reduce fuel consumption and look at biofuels.
World Population, Agriculture, and Malnutrition —Pimentel, Wilson
Increases in food production, per hectare of land, have not kept pace with increases in population, and the planet is running out … of arable land. As a result, per-capita cropland has fallen by more than half since 1960, and per-capita production of grains, the basic food, has been falling worldwide for 20 years.
Russia greenlights pipeline to Pacific, hints China may get Yukos assets stake
Russia said Friday it had ordered the construction of an oil pipeline from its huge Siberian oilfields to the Pacific Ocean opposite Japan, in a move to boost export opportunities throughout East Asia and to the United States.
US: Firewood gaining popularity over heating oil
Higher heating oil prices in the US are encouraging consumers to turn to back to firewood.
Challenges For The Hydrogen Economy
If the fuel cell is to become the modern steam engine, basic research must provide breakthroughs in understanding, materials, and design to make a hydrogen−based energy system a vibrant and competitive force.
Richard Heinberg at Peak Oil Conference in Santa Barbara
Heinberg speaks on Peak Oil and other threats to industrial society, the universal ecological dilemma, and coordinated and cooperative responses to our predicament. (2-hour audio)
This can’t go on forever – so it won’t
Global economic forecasters tend to be upbeat. But not this year…The biggest global economic uncertainty is the price of oil.
