Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Dave Cohen Iraq will not contribute much new oil to the world’s supply for many years, or perhaps decades, to come — Iraq is a failed state… Geopolitical conflicts such as those in Iraq or Nigeria are one kind of aboveground risk threatening the future oil supply. Such factors, along with geologically determined production declines, conspire to accelerate the timing of peak oil.
Big Oil running out of oil
Review of Pfeiffer’s Eating Fossil Fuels
Gas gouging legislation – finding scapegoats
Maersk: oil production in North Sea at peak
ODAC News May 9 (JUST ADDED)
A new study prepared for the European Commission Joint Research Centre reports: “the world could run out of economically recoverable (at current economic and operating conditions) reserves of coal much earlier than widely anticipated.”
Trying to bring peak oil to the hometown. An example of the Semmelweis Reflex.
From unusually low gasoline stocks in the spring to frenzied Chinese economic growth later in the year — all seem destined to play a role in how much money you will be leaving at your favorite gas pump later this year.
The electricity industry is building momentum toward its next evolutionary leap — to an electronically-enabled electric grid delivering digital-quality power. This shift … will have the most profound effect on the electricity industry in its history.
Not only is independence worth striving for because it is good for us, our nation and our families, but also because someday we may depend on these skills and knowledge – and right now we might have a better country if we did this.
No-walking blues (in suburban sprawl)
Cycling good in Cascadia, Europe’s better
Spain balks at corrupt urbanization
Moving New York City toward sustainable energy independence
Rob Hopkins (Transition Totnes) interview
Bill Rees (“eco-footprint”) on pushing the planet to its limit
Investigative journalist reports PO by 2020
Bush may have answers to peak oil
Peak oil in Turkey
User’s guide to T. Boone Pickens
American society, as an autopoietic system, by its very energy-intense design, is inclined toward blindness of certain stimuli in its environment… It is well known that any large-scale organization as a system adjusts slowly to alterations in its environment. This suggests that there may be more promise in correcting our vision at the micro level.
How creation of an Energy Shortage Plan will prepare New York City for energy price volatility and accelerate the long-term transition to energy sustainability. (50-page report)
