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Staff Community Solutions newsletter on Peak Oil economics / Kunstler interview in Salon / PO – “a promissory word of new birth” / Berkeley energy professor roasts Bush / Climate change’s nuclear fix / Ecuador gets Chávez’d / Oil fuels programs for poor in Venezuela / Problems aplenty in a world of plenty / Australia ‘throwing away too much food’ / Increase in ‘dead zones’ starving the world’s seas / Germany plans to triple wind power
Today’s Prophetic Noahs and Paul Reveres Sound Alarms / Oil Doomsday is Nigh, Tar Sands Not a Substitute / Qatar to revolutionise diesel market / Bush energy policy: So stupid, it’s painful
An hour long Peak Oil radio program featuring ASPO president Kjell Alekett, Blood and Oil author Michael Klare and American Petroleum Institute chief economist, John Felmy.
Research at Oxford University shows that intermittent renewables, combined with domestic combined heat and power (dCHP) could dependably provide the bulk of Britain’s electricity.
The growing consensus is that only new nuclear power can plug that gap without contributing to global warming.
But a new report indicates that a judicious mix of intermittent renewables – wave, wind, sun and tide – could supply over half of UK electricity.
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Azerbaijan (an Asian republic of the former USSR) on April 12th. It became Rumsfeld’s second visit to the republic in four months — that is why it can hardly be treated as a formal visit of no particular importance.
Powerdown – back to Eden? / USEIA’s unbelievable optimism / Kunstler: The Rapture / End of the Age of Oil / Strategic Conundrum Of India’s Oil Pipeline Projects / Trading oil for biomass / Bush’s energy solution / Five Arab countries and Turkey to be linked via power grids / Afghan ‘pipe dream’ draws closer to reality / Less-polluting hybrid locomotive begins operation
The Fourth Special Order speech on Peak Oil to the US Congress by Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, accompanied by Rep.’s Ehlers, Gilchrest, Inglis, and Wamp.
America is over. America is like Wile E. Coyote after he’s run out a few paces past the edge of the cliff – he’ll take a few more steps in midair before he looks down. Then, when he sees that there’s nothing under him, he’ll fall. Many Americans suspect that they’re running on thin air, but they haven’t looked down yet. When they do …
Push for release of oil & gas production data / Farm costs up 10% / Cheney clings tight to Energy Taskforce records / Construction of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline nearly complete / Nova Scotia: Fewer gas stations, fewer tourists? / UK Oil Co’s fear Windfall tax / Whitehouse wants oil price at $25 a barrel
The world is about to face an energy crisis because the demand for oil keeps growing even though production is already at its maximum, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said yesterday.
Current and former elected officials will debate a proposed international agreement to avoid global conflict over the world’s depleting oil supplies during a conference at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon on 19 May 2005.
From farm to plate, the modern food system relies heavily on cheap oil. Threats to our oil supply are also threats to our food supply. As food undergoes more processing and travels farther, the food system consumes ever more energy each year.
