Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Alex Salkever The U.S. has invested billions of dollars trying to create a controlled form of nuclear fusion that could be the energy source for an endless supply of electricity. But as a federal laboratory prepares for a key test of the latest technology, even the project’s most enthusiastic supporters concede an actual pilot fusion plant is at least a decade away.
This chapter is a scandal to the peak oil movement (if there is such a thing as a “peak oil movement”). I suspect it will go a long way toward discrediting peak oil as an oil company conspiracy to both raise the price of oil and destroy the planet in the process. They attempt to create doubt about anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in order to advance their own thesis about how to best mitigate declining oil production.
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil production
-Climate talks
-The global food situation
-Iraq
Should we be thinking about the number simultaneously alive or the cumulative number ever to live?
TOD co-founder Summers blogs on talks on EROEI, military, economics and transportation.
– ASPO’s Baldauf discusses policy options on E&E TV
– John blogs the breakout sessions
– Sharon Astyk on Beginnings
– Attack of the Chicken People
– Huffington Post: Peak Oil and Convention Deserve Our Attention
– World oil shortages would center on liquid fuels, forum told
Central to happiness is having a purpose, making a difference. This is the new dream of the good life: a culture in which we have meaning and connection.
Reports on talks by Jim Baldauf, Chris Skrebowski, Jeremy Gilbert, Dr. James Schlesinger, Roger Bezdek, Arthur Berman and Charles Maxwell.
– Green Party strong in Brazil
– Syriana: Yours to stream or download
– Look past China’s smog and noise and you can see greener action
– What will future generations condemn us for?
– Policy at Its Worst (dysfunctional US)
– Why I was wrong about population
– Living off our capital
– Transportation: The Leading Edge (ASPO-USA talk)
– E-Car Scheme to Tackle Permanent Congestion in Paris
– Going Car-Free? It’s On Us, Says Hoboken
– In Arabian Desert, a Sustainable City Rises
– Google tests cars that drive themselves
– Scientists and Soldiers Solve a Bee Mystery
– Wes Jackson On The Need To Reinvent Agriculture
– It Pays Not to Cultivate GM Crops, Survey Finds
– Chaco deforestation by Christian sect puts Paraguayan land under threat
