Economics – Aug 9
Impact of oil on economy limited so far: Bodman /
The Threat From Oil /
‘Dead Zone’ Threat to US Suburban Dream /
US: Housing glut worst in 40 years /
The odds of economic meltdown
Staff
When oilmen turn sour on crude
Former oilman Jeffrey Brown and activist Nan Hildreth have been spreading the Peak Oil message. They’re part of a Peak Oil mini-conference this Sunday in Houston.
Other energy – Aug 9
How power-hungry cities drive projects like NYRI (electric grid) /
A power grid for the hydrogen economy / Energy experts working on oil-shale projects / Russian researchers say “hydrocarbons may take only decades to be formed”
Water shortages – Aug 8
World’s Water Resources Face Mounting Pressure /
Thirsty Planet /
Retreating glaciers take Earth’s water stores /
More than two million people face shortage of drinking water in China /
Chinese Impose Rules for Water Use /
Saving The World, Drip By Drip /
EB news round-up
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 8
Mayer Hillman on carbon rationing and the UK energy review (Audio) /
Professor Daniel Gilbert on “The Party’s Over: Going Local” (Audio) /
Isolated Americans trying to connect /
Conversation with Bill Kemp about off-grid living /
In planning energy future, think local, small and clean /
Energy-efficient homes the wave of the future /
The Visionary Life of Murray Bookchin
Environment – Aug 8
A/C D.C.: The deluded world of air conditioning / Antarctica under siege / National Ocean Policy Study Subcommittee Hearing: “State of the Oceans 2006″ / Jellyfish plague blamed on climate change
Coal & sequestration – Aug 8
Why carbon sequestration won’t save us / Team looks at seafloor as gas trap / Salting the earth / Coal may surpass oil as better bet on demand for cheaper fuel
Food & agriculture – Aug 8
Food prices would soar in biofuels switch, says Unilever /
Chez Kaiser’s food revolution: Hospital experiment putting locally grown produce on patients’ plates /
Micropropagation and sustainability
Sun and sea – Aug 8
Energy from the restless sea / How Australia got hot for solar power / India is rapidly developing solar energy
Prudhoe Bay – Aug 8
Alaska joins axis of evil (unreliable oil suppliers) /
Restart of Prudhoe Bay oil field may take months /
Variety of crudes seen filling gap left by Prudhoe Bay outage (problems for West Coast) /
Oil Drum: More thoughts on Prudhoe Bay
The New Frontier
As an unusually long and sweltering heat wave enveloped the traditionally mild San Francisco Bay Area, power outages knocked out air conditioning, and gas prices under $3.00 a gallon seemed like leisure suits or vinyl LPs, relics of a long forgotten era, those who have been warning of the consequences of global warming and the eventual decline of a fossil fuel-based life felt an awkward sense of vindication.
Anything but time
The U.S., and the West in general, has focused its attention on other people as the source of trouble in the oil markets, with countless hours devoted to worrying about whether or not the Iranians or the Saudis or the Venezuelans will cause trouble. And here we are, an utterly and shamelessly oil-dependent culture, waking up to the fact that rust in the pipelines of Prudhoe Bay has taken down 400,000 barrels of oil in one fell swoop.
