Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Anne Applebaum Unfortunately for the authors of “Potential Environmental Impact of a Hydrogen Economy on the Stratosphere,” their research, while bold and innovative, didn’t exactly mesh with the hype about hydrogen. [The resulting government action] left some scientists feeling that they’d better stay away from “political” subjects if they want government grants.
The Swedish Commission on Oil Independence
is a broad-based expert council that will provide the Prime Minister and the Government with facts and advice in the work to significantly reduce Sweden’s dependence on oil and other fossil raw materials by 2020.
31 workers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory were dismissed seven days after President Bush read the words “addicted to oil” off the teleprompter and announced yet another “Advanced Energy Initiative.”
The corporate plunder of Iraq /
G-8 ministers warn of wider risks from tight oil supply /
Ethanol’s a big scam, and Bush has fallen for it /
U.S. royalty plan to give windfall to oil companies /
UAE keen to buy more natural gas from Qatar /
Threat of scarcity draws oil companies to Cuba
Bush may be taking the idea of peak oil seriously /
BBC: Why oil will hit $100 a barrel /
Peak oil on BBC’s Prime Time /
Byron King: “Peak oil is not for amateurs” /
Hubbert talk: “Nuclear energy and the fossil fuels” /
Willits: Regional localization networking conference
A comprehensive analysis of the likely nature of US or Israeli military action that would be intended to disable Iran’s nuclear capabilities. It outlines both the immediate consequences in terms of loss of human life, facilities and infrastructure, and also the likely Iranian responses, which would be extensive.
Global warming seems an almost impossible notion on this icy coastline, but out there in the frozen wastes the ice is slowly melting, and a new struggle over the world’s dwindling resources is rapidly heating up.
Austria puts its energy into plant power (biomass) /
Patagonia wind aids remote communities /
Kyoto and pig power /
A Latin American pipeline dream /
Nigeria’s oil hope and despair /
Tom Adams of Energy Probe on nuclear power
Maryland’s conservative congressman leading charge against fuel dependency (Rep. Bartlett) /
Cancel that apocalypse — the oil crisis is over /
Commuters at sea as governments lose the plot (urban design & energy) /
The Iran crisis & global peak oil
Will global warming create any winners? /
Grist series on poverty and the environment /
The greenhouse mafia /
Climate ‘makes oil profit vanish’ /
Capturing pig power /
Eau, no: Bottled water is killing the planet
It is said that there is the reason they give; and then there is the real reason. Nowhere is this more true, perhaps, than Iran.
Deffeyes says we passed peak in December 2005 /
Jeremy Leggett’s “Empty Tank” (interview) /
New Zealand’s oil addiction /
Ireland’s energy policy: We’re still in the dark /
Oil spike lubricates Japan’s economy /
BBC puts Indian energy in spotlight
