Planning, policy, strategy and energy (part I)
What is policy and strategy? What do these things look like? How does one formulate policy and strategy?
Byron W. King
Peak oil – Apr 11
World ‘cannot meet oil demand’ /
OPEC warns high commodity prices may kill oil projects /
New ASPO-USA newsletter /
Toward a new vision for Hamilton (PO & cities) /
Energy philosophy for entropic times /
The Darwin Award for self-extinction goes to…
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 11
Innovating tourism, for fun, savings and the good of the planet /
Kim Stanley Robinson on the future of adventure
Environment – Apr 11
Flannery puts to rest doubts over global warming (book reviews) /
Top U.S. utilities targetted with global warming lawsuit /
Craft nears Venus to seek global warming clues /
California governor to focus on global warming
Other energy – Apr 11
With boost from sugar cane, Brazil satisfies its fuel needs /
Now in the rearview mirror: low gasoline prices /
Offshore drilling plan widens rifts over energy policy
Field of nightmares: A conversation with climate journalist Elizabeth Kolbert
No writing about global warming has had more impact over the past year than a series of closely observed pieces in “The New Yorker” by Elizabeth Kolbert, which have now been collected and expanded into a book. The book ends with these chilling words: “It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.”
Energy secretary quietly dismantles Energy Advisory Board
Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman has quietly disbanded the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB), the department’s “principal independent advisory board on scientific and technical matters,” reports Nature magazine.
Oil Major CEO talks about “the real problem of peak oil”
Christophe de Margerie of Total says the problem is not with reserves per se, but with the rates of production, and that we will never be able to reach the production levels predicted by the IEA (International Energy Agency) – or by the US Department of Energy, for that matter – simply because it is taking increasing efforts to get the oil out of the ground and that effort cannot be accomplished with today’s industrial resources.
TV news series on peak oil
WCCO-TV in Minnesota began broadcasting the first US news series that explicitly covers peak oil.
Should we use net energy to measure global energy reserves?
As the world moves ever closer to the time when vital, finite energy resources begin to decline, we need to know not how much oil, natural gas, coal or uranium is left; rather, we need to know how much usable energy is left in these resources.
Report from the 7th International Oil Summit in Paris
More then 75% of remaining oil reserves are in the hands of National Oil Companies (NOCs). International Oil Companies (IOCs) are producing at maximum capacity using all available technology. Hence IOCs are eager to convince the NOCs that they need new partners in the future.
Peak oil – Apr 8
Kaboom: Peak copper, superspike prices, oil and US debt /
Peak oil passnotes: oil prepares to push on /
No problemo? Rochester and the decline of cheap oil (Kunstler) /
A peek past peak oil by UBC professor
