Renewables – Aug 30
The new energy companies
Giant turbines bring winds of change
to W. Texas
Alternative energy without being too green
Engineers race to steal nature’s secrets
Staff
Economics – Aug 30
Cheap goods ‘banquet’ may be over
Detroit sees cheap gas as history
$100/barrel oil would cause U.S. recession
Global trends hinder effort to curb US inflation
Oil industry – Aug 30
BP: Big problems for oil giant
Forward-looking thoughts from Shell
China to invest $5-billion in Venezuelan oil
Oil producers – Aug 30
Gadaffi scolds Libyans for reliance on oil
Chad orders foreign oil firms out
Bolivia’s Morales replaces head of state oil firm
Bicycles – Aug 30
Shanghai by bike:
Dodging cars as China drives
toward development
Safety and righteous fun for bicyclists
Maps to prevent bike accidents
Thoughts from Shell
Last week, Shell’s US President John Hofmeister came to Cleveland as part of a US tour to offer Shell’s perspectives on national energy security.
Commentary: Peak Oil and the Fall of the Soviet Union
Was the cause of the cataclysmic collapse of the Soviet Union really the result of communist inefficiency and U.S. president Ronald Reagan’s Cold War military build up? Or was there an oil crisis that shocked the Soviet system?
U.S. energy policy – Aug 29
Iraq commanders want renewable power
Californians weigh new tax on oil companies
Lugar: U.S. must break oil habit
Bush courts oil-rich Kazakhstan
Climate change policy – Aug 29
California – the risks of going it alone
China ambivalent on global warming
Monbiot: don’t trigger another catastrophe with sulphate pollution
Australian TV covers peak oil: “Running on empty”
One of the most doomerish pieces about peak oil to run on mainstream television. Interviews with Andrew MacNamara (MP-Queensland) and environmentalist Jeremy Leggett, as well as two oilmen.
Video and transcript available.
Peak oil – Aug 29
Heinberg on the Oil Depletion Protocol
Kurt Vonnegut’s apocalypse
Oil-driven energy era coming to end?
Skrebowski: oil crisis by 2010
Saudi oilfield of the future – Khurais.
Hydrogen to the rescue? Questions about Iceland’s sustainability
Iceland plans to be the first country to implement a hydrogen economy, taking advantage of its vast electric resources. However, sustainability is still wanting in this tiny, isolated island nation, despite its massive advantages over most countries. It cannot, at this time, free itself from the world oil economy.
