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Jason Brenno Happy Birthday Peak Oil! Commemorating the 51st Anniversary of M. King Hubbert’s Seminal Speech, the Hubbert Tribute site has released a 1976 video clip of Hubbert speaking about world oil depletion and explaining the concept of peak oil.
Exxon Mobil is planning to implement twenty new projects over the next three years, which are expected to produce a total of 1 million bpd.
Technical background from an oil geologist that puts the New York Times article into perspective.
UK Royal Society on Energy for a sustainable future
NZs energy future in a carbon-constrained world
Forest owners/investors set to lose $2.7 billion
Green group seeks afghan refuge
The report’s key recommendation is that Portland take action to reduce fossil fuel use by half over the next 25 years. The report finds the best path to this goal is in accelerating current initiatives such as high-density planning and zoning, public transportation and acquiring electricity from renewable resources
David Korten’s 2006 book The Great Turning has been hailed as a groundbreaking work for progressives seeking to deal with peak oil and other aspects of the predicament of industrial civilization. Is Korten’s theory the panacea some peak oil advocates suggest, or does it contain a different agenda? First of a three-part series.
Castro’s revenge: The Cuban oil rush
BPs Reserves depleted, except in Russia
Exxon plans 25 new projects in next three years
Russia, pumped
Share stampede as Siberian reserves confirmed
The Big Green Fuel Lie
A switch to biofuels will not save the planet
Oil giant Chevron bets on biodiesel
Success Derails Biofuels Bandwagon
Japan to receive bulk of Brazil’s ethanol exports
Miliband outlines ‘post-oil’ future
Time for a green industrial revolution’
Notes from the Meeting of International Forum on Globalisation
As warnings grow more dire, Berkeley Nobelist emerges as leader
Appalling (“Last man standing” has failed)
Jay Hanson essay “Thermo/gene collision: On human nature, energy, and collapse”
Shell safety record in North Sea takes a hammering
Metal thieves steal kids’ slides, toilet roof in Japan
China goes for green before growth
High temperatures leave five million Chinese short of water
China soon to pass US as biggest GHG emitter
The free market will ignore solutions that can’t turn a profit. The corollary is that the free market will ignore any solution that cannot be controlled, either through property interests (enforceable intellectual property, monopoly licenses, etc.) or because economies of scale demand centralized operation. This means that free market innovation is structurally incompatible with a huge portion of the universe of possible energy solutions.
