Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Matt Wald Sympathetic coverage of a plan by Roger Bezdek, coauthor of “The Hirsch Report.” The four-part plan suggests: coal-to-liquid (Fischer-Tropsch process), pumping CO2 into old oil fields, biomass as a feedstock for synthetic fuel, and oil shale.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft is being designed and built for a future world of highly priced fuel. This new aircraft is a dream at break of day, at the dawn of the post-Peak Oil world.
For those who can’t make the trip to Pisa for this year’s international Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO), the next best thing could be a visit to ASPO-5 Live, a near real-time weblog. July 18-19.
The most surprising feature of the current oil crisis is that it does not really feel like a crisis. Why haven’t high energy prices forced a recession?
With concerns that energy use will rapidly increase over the next several years while fossil fuels diminish as well as numerous other energy uncertainties including the results of climate change, Sandia National Laboratories is proposing applying the principles of surety to energy.
First half of 2006 Is warmest on record for U.S. /
Global warming: They’re not laughing at Ron Sims now / UK MPs: ‘Climate change should be taken out of politics to allow radical remedies’ /
Global warming ‘will cancel out Western aid and devastate Africa’
California: so many cars, so little money / Davis: the best bicycle town in North America /
Blacktop cost curbs road work / Fuel costs may benefit Boeing; airlines could seek to replace fuel-guzzlers / How to hack a hybrid (plug-in Prius)
Plenty of opinions about energy (peak oil books) / Black Gold (book review) / Peak oil and energy resources (anarchist view) / Whipple: Independence Day 2006 – America’s last fling? /
Clinton gets peak oil and global warming
Energy security yes, but climate security too / G8 Call for more oil output won’t help poor: report / McKillop: Towards the international energy transition plan / The mother of all battles: for oil / In energy, we’re all connected / Energy should not be political tool – Chirac / BBC poll:
‘global fear’ over energy plans
A watershed on energy? (UK energy report) / China called to rein in growing use of electricity / Jane Bryant: what we need is policy / Alliance: Car feebate could replace CAFE increase / Turkey as an energy terminal state / American Conservative Magazine cover story on “American Petrocracy”
Consumers face challenges in handling debt /
UK: Surge in oil imports sees trade gap widen / Major global economic shock could rock UK banks, BoE warns / Addicted to Oil (video) / Senate approves expanded drilling in Gulf of Mexico / US: Oil costs continue effect on trade deficit, overseas sales / Guide to Russia’s key energy clients
Until the recent oil price hikes and world wide discussions on the future of oil, Peak Oil was nearly absent in military publications. Now, things have changed. This article attempts to provide a US military literature review on Peak Oil and related issues.
