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Reflection over the nuclear power fever in China

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Since Zhang Huazhu, director of China Atomic Energy Authority, announced that the Chinese Government has formulated policies to expedite the development of nuclear power generation in early September, numerous heavyweights including Canadian Minister of Natural Resources John Efford, French President Jacques Chirac, Russian President Putin and US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Nils Diaz have come to China.

Supply, demand and oil

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Saudi Arabia has sold and is selling far more oil than it would if basic economic principles were observed. The excess — the difference between the volume of oil actually supplied and the volume that should be supplied in the strict observance of the national economic interests of Saudi Arabia — is in fact a subsidy it grants the West, Japan and other oil-importing nations.

UK: What is EDM 199?

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An as yet undiscussed Early Day Motion (EDM 199) before the British Parlaiment states ‘that this House notes the growing consensus amongst the world’s leading petroleum geologists and geophysicists that the peak of global oil production will occur at some point within the next 10 years…’

Energy Transition and Final Energy Crisis

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The current ‘oil price crisis’ in reality reflects an emerging and permanent supply crisis for oil and gas (which currently provide about 65% of world commercial energy). Initially, this will concern ever slower net additions of world production capacity in the face of strong demand growth, and will manifest itself as continued oil price rises, and continued gas price rises.

An American’s Thoughts on the U.S. Election

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Ken Reiner on why voting is not enough: ‘time is of the essence; we cannot wait 4 years, then another 4. Global warming is here now, ozone depletion is here now, we have reached peak oil now and drinking water is already insufficient for the world’s present population which is still growing. Actions all over the world and within our country must be taken in the coming months to undo the corporate grip destroying us.”