Coal – Nov 28
Indiana OKs coal plant that can fight carbon
Environmentalism and the future of coal
Staff
Efficiency – Nov 28
LA Times: Small steps, big energy savings
Dim prospects that ‘energy efficient’ will pay off: CIBC
‘Beer fridges’ present a gassy problem
Smart appliances learning to save power grid
Bringing back the clothesline
EnergyJoule power use monitor
The rich opt out
Questioning peak oil economic assumptions
Peak oil proponents assume a simple model of the relation between oil supply or price shocks and economic performance. Economists have called into question some aspects of that model.
Bite of high oil prices only beginning
What’s in store for us after the peak? A decline in oil supply, and even higher oil prices. I see three possible roads to higher oil prices.
Outlook for fuel reserves
Long and detailed analysis of the complete fossil fuel cycle by Dr. M. K. Hubbert (1976). Full text available as a PDF. Previously unavailable.
Off course again
After reading yet another climate denial piece by Bjorn Lomborg, Bill Henderson remembers the time the herring boat he was on went off course in strange waters in the middle of the night. He was furious then at those who allowed the boat to drift into danger, and he’s furious now.
Oil prices – Nov 27
Fortunes shift as oil prices soar
A big toll on small oil businesses
Fuel prices produce gasps, fumes in Eastern Sierra town
Gas thefts on the rise
Oil industry – Nov 27
Big Oil PR blitz suggests the un-reformed industry just wants to be friends – so shut up!
Gail the Actuary’s visit to Shell’s Brutus off-shore oil/gas platform
Oil and gasoline prices: The crack spread
So much money in environmental devastation that it can’t be stopped?
China and India – Nov 27
China calls for warning system to ensure oil supplies
Subsidised fuel weighs on India’s budget
UK: nuclear, airport and homes – Nov 27
Brown to endorse new generation of nuclear power and Heathrow airport expansion
A dogma that has had its day
New terminal planned for Heathrow
Brown: Britain’s prosperity depends on airport expansion
George Monbiot for building 3 million homes
United States – Nov 27
Kucinich, Clinton, and Edwards on climate and energy
Why is Dick Cheney smiling?
The falling dollar and prestige (Daniel Yergin of CERA)
Peak oil activists gather, plan for hard times, will lead the way
Former professor and author David Korten told close to 300 applauding peak oil activists that they are not a fringe minority but the leading edge of a super-majority “and it’s time we start acting like it.” Korten issued his rallying call in October at the “Fourth U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions” in Yellow Springs Ohio last October.
