Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Development Concepts “The Golden Age of cheap energy has passed. Competition for energy supplies will dominate the economic landscape during the next 30 years… The prospect, apparent or real, of the peak production of oil during the timeframe out to 2035 and progressive diminution of output thereafter will intensify competition for remaining resources.”
Testimony at Hearing regarding the (US) National Energy Conservation Policy Act of 1974, before the Subcommittee on the Environment of the committee on Interior and Insular Affairs House of Representatives. June 6, 1974.
Perhaps it is just sour grapes that I have no inventing skills, and thus am doomed to poverty and obscurity, but Richard Branson’s $25 million climate change prize reminds me of the time our refrigerator broke down.
CERA has made it their task in life to debunk the peak oil myth. Would people listen as much if they knew the errors CERA has been making?
The oil depletion protocol: Heinberg interview
TOD peak oil update: forecasts and EIA numbers
Mexico oil barrel costs near double
Peak performance? (skeptic)
Wall Street adds climate change to bottom line
TXU accepts $45B takeover; buyers made environmental pledge
TXU’s emissions U-turn shocks power industry
A battle over how to build new US coal plants
Emirates, MIT team up for green energy
Global warming worries to boost renewables
Toronto asleep at cleantech switch
Oil-hungry Japan looks to other sources
How will biofuels affect global hunger?
MIT:
Will cellulosic ethanol take off?
Grain pain harms the biofuel industry
We’ll run out of beer before we run out of oil
Biofuels play major role in energy future
Rising corn prices put squeeze on dairies
Alternative fuels and the selling of snake oil
Krugman: California and colorless green ideas
Congress to evaluate carbon taxes
Five governors agree to work on climate
Global warming? Never heard of it, not my fault
Review of Monbiot’s “Heat”
Crises and large scale challenges create fear in many but inspire others to act. What gives relocalization greater value than many other responses is its broader benefit to society, especially to local farmers, producers, community enterprise and businesses.
Perhaps those who are giving their good names to Branson’s contest believe that we need a miracle technology to save us from the worst of global warming. But the kind of miracle we need most is one that will change the attitude of people worldwide about what each of them needs to do to prevent global warming from destroying the very civilization that has given us so much faith in technology.
I honestly admire and commend Shell CEO John D. Hofmeister for going around to discuss the energy predicament of the U.S. and the world. But what is with the Peak Oil denial by Shell?
