Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Shawn McCarthy Peak-oil theorists reject any claims of resurgence in supply. It’s been a tough week for peak-oil theorists — those limits-to-growth doomsayers who argue the world’s crude oil supply has begun an inexorable decline that will force prices ever higher.
The handwriting is on the wall – massive
change is in the offing – and we are totally unprepared. For this New Solutions we will discuss options for addressing these threats under the rubric of four “plans” arbitrarily labeled A, B, C and D.
Buildings as clean energy producers
Global carbon neutral calculation
Geosequestration to boost oil recovery
An Inconvenient Truth About Climate Change
White House might unveil GW policy
Secret to cheap petrol is coal
BP was warned over North Slope intimidation
Oil supplies ‘could last 140 years’
Canadian crude oil production drops
US DOE trumpets CO2 injection
IMF: risk of global crash is increasing
Java-Bali electricity supply reduced
America’s unreal estate problem
Ford offers early retirement to US workforce
Gulf oil find won’t alter prices now
What seems to be turning up in the deeper waters of the Gulf are a series of smaller oil fields — some of which may someday be profitable to produce and some of which probably won’t. Extrapolating this situation to a major new discovery that will delay the onset of peak oil is clearly a reach.
Financial columnist Scott Burns on peak oil
Geophysicist Klaus Lackner on Fueling the Future
Roscoe Bartlett interview
A simpler way to calculate global oil reserves?
Some insiders reject ‘peak-oil theory’
Oil supply conjecture grips industry
Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) completely discounts the considered opinions of dozens of sober individuals and firms looking into the peak oil issue. Who are these concerned individuals and firms? Steve Andrews lists many of the most prominent.
Chevron’s effort in the Gulf is worth dissecting because it is illustrative of the future of the petroleum industry over the next decades. This article discusses geology.
As fossil fuel depletion brings the industrial age to an end, the shift to a much lower level of energy use per capita will bring sweeping changes to every aspect of life. This essay, the first of a series, outlines what a low-energy future would mean for America and its people.
Jason Bradford is a PhD evolutionary biologist who studied the effects of climate change on cloud forests in the Andes under the auspices of the Missouri Botanical Garden and other institutions. But in 2004 he switched his focus from study to action by initiating a remarkable community organizing effort in his new home town of Willits, California, called Willits Economic LocaLization (WELL).
EU: energy investments ‘urgently needed’
Producers: aid must continue for biomass-coal power
Japan’s energy drive – a white elephant?
Fuel for London, a clean-up for Caracas
