Energy policy – Oct 15
Fill ‘er up- but with what? (review of Zoom)
Jamais Cascio: Solving the climate crisis
Black to the future: cheap, plentiful and planet-friendly coal
Staff
Geopolitics – Oct 15
Energy crunch threatens South American nations
Aussie coal to fuel Vietnam expansion
Angola:
Amid an oil boom, poverty persists
Peak moment for peak oil in Queensland
The just-released report marks the Queensland Government as the first state/provincial government in the world to recognise that peak oil is real and decide to do something about it.
Deep thought – Oct 14
Farm work vs. gardening- what makes work unpleasant?
Think-tank confidential
The pain of caring too much about the Earth’s death
Gandalf, Gunpowder and Neil Gaiman’s cats (hope and doom)
One decade into a new era
the rise in oil prices over the last ten years reflects a third era in the petroleum industry’s 160-year history.
Powerdown revisited/As the world burns
The three scenarios that I see as most likely:
– Feudal Fascism
– The Eco Deal (“Environmental Keynesianism”)
– Bottoms Up
What’s the definition of local?
Peak oil activists in Willits, California have convinced city officials, the chamber of commerce, and even the Rotary Club that focusing on locally owned and operated businesses is an important step in preparing for the onset of world peak oil production. At first this seemed simple.
$100 oil by 2008? Maybe not
The price of oil may well rise in the next three years and it might even reach the $100 per barrel for a brief period. But this will most likely be caused by strong global demand or an unexpected geo-political crisis in the Middle East rather than by a decline in exports under the circumstances that Jeff Rubin has described.
Russian Oil – a Depletion Rate Model estimate of the future Russian oil production and export
The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 caused the Russian oil production to drop by 50%. The production is currently growing again – but how will it develop in the future? (Diploma thesis written under the supervision of Professor Kjell Aleklett and Dr Colin Campbell of ASPO.)
Waiting for the energy
Public support for clean, renewable energy is at an all-time high. Why have the Democrats found it so difficult to produce an energy bill?
Food & agriculture – Oct 13
Eating kangaroo could cut gas emissions
How Malawi went from a nation of famine to a nation of feast
A conversation with Michael Pollan
Wheat prices surge to daily maximum
U.S. military – Oct 13
Pentagon backs plan to beam solar power from space
Hydrogen uses in the military
Air Force reducing energy impact
