Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Rick Dworsky The Earth has an enormous natural solar collector – the tropical oceans. Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is a technology that can extract useful work from solar energy stored in the sea. It may be one of our best hopes for the environmentally clean, sustainable solutions we need to solve our global energy and environmental problems.
Savinar: Why Are Most Prominent Peak Oil Authors Men? /
Roger Bezdek on the Hirsch followup /
Russia: ‘Era of cheap fuel is over’ /
20 new fields needed every year in the UK
Peak Moment TV: Community Responses to a Changing Energy Future /
Relocalization – Our Only Solution to Peak Oil /
Mass Natural (on Wal-Mart organics) /
The Grass-Fed Revolution /
Chinese take to solar-powered water heaters /
Australian science body: Solar thermal will soon match coal
Bulldozing the Bottom of the Sea /
Climate Change: The View From the Patio /
Canadian mayors to go it alone on Kyoto /
Widening tropics ‘will drive deserts into Europe’
EU energy strategy focuses on Russia, China /
The Great Game in Somalia /
American Theocracy /
Nigeria’s oil delta faces escalation of violence /
The Resource Curse: The Pumping and Plundering of West African Oil (audio)
Oil Sands’ Natural Gas Demand Expected to Triple /
Are Gasoline Alternatives Fuel for a Revolution? /
EU countries seek to annex lucrative tract of Atlantic seabed /
Oil price surge may delay airline recovery /
Can oil companies handle more storms? /
Saudi oil production for April dropped to 9.1 million b/d
Investment implications of an abrupt climate change / Al Gore on “Fresh Air” and ABC / Desert cities are living on borrowed time, UN warns
Car culture runs over life /
Learning from Easter Island – crunch time for planet earth /
Scientists Say Arctic Once Was Tropical /
Bush energy plan whacks conservation
The possibility of future disruptions in the supply of oil is real and growing. Insurers may be affected in many ways – with implications that are as significant as the costs from Hurricane Katrina. [Analysis by a professional in the insurance industry.]
What do we really know about oil market fundamentals? This discussion of the avoidable and unavoidable pitfalls in oil statistics will probably change your opinion.
Follow-up to the Hirsch Report: “Economic Impacts of Liquid Fuel Mitigation Options” / Interview with report co-author Roger Bezdek /
Communities Magazine special on PO and sustainability /
MoveOn.org prioritizes “energy independence” / Energy strategies for the mining industry / No technofixes for PO / BBC scrapes the barrel to stand up PO theory
Anger at oil chief’s $400m retirement package / Pelamis: a shot in the dark? (wave energy) / New Scientist report on energy and fuels / Squandering energy in the East / Mexicans cling tightly to `their’ oil
