Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Former UK Times Editor: Are these the last days of the Oil Age?
China booms- we pay the price
Kenneth S. Deffeyes: Sunset
Australian senator: Blood for oil
If you’re in a hole, merge. But is it too late for BP and Shell?
Chris Skrewbowski on the dramatic shortage of new LNG mega projects
In our search for ways to reduce the tension between food vs. fuel comes the latest Energy Farm Demonstration Project: The Electric Tractor.
Not only does this appear to be an economically wise investment, but electric tractors are a pleasure to use.
Scientific American: Worse than gasoline
Row over plan to build coal power plant
CalTech prof: Hubbert’s peak, the coal question, and climate change
China View: Why does Kuwait keep its oil reserves secret?
Kuwait and IEA show declining oil production future
Rebels say attack on Mexican pipeline is just the beginning
Mexican troops to guard energy sites
Mexico: a nation-state dissolves?
Vital ingredient is missing from oil mix (subsidized prices)
Five studies on coal supplies- there’s less than we thought
Climate scientist James Hansen on coal
US coal firm linked to Colombian death squads
Rob Hopkins on the transition movement
Oregon peak oil group
Sheri Liao, Global Village Beijing: “We have to change our lifestyle”
In trash-strewn Italy, a city cleans up
Green energy town proposal in Ireland
The Vatican to become world’s first carbon neutral sovereign state
“Peak oil” advocates blast U.S. industry study
ASPO-USA fall world oil conference
Review of Strahan’s Last Oil Shock
Energy news from The Oil Drum: Canada
ODAC news
In the last few days, two important reports on the prospects for world oil production were “released.” Each of them is likely to make a contribution to the debate over just when the economic troubles occasioned by the peaking of world oil production will occur. [IEA and NPC reports]
Australia serves as a microcosm of a world entering the peak oil era. Aussie oil production has peaked and Australians must face up to the stark choices these circumstances present.
China’s green leap forward
Murray-Darling water shortage
Geoengineering the climate: weighing the risks
The great global warming swindle- scientists respond
Preaching the anti-shopping gospel
Downsize my dish (less food please)
Green chemistry: changing an industry
Maryland Governor challenge on energy saving
The International Energy Agency, the intergovernmental energy watchdog, has been going in overdrive lately. Now we have a disquieting interview in Le Monde, the big French daily, with Claude Mandil, the head of the Agency, who pulls no punches, despite an apparent denial of “peak oil.”
