Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Coalmine fire put out after half a century
Declining coal reserves add to energy worries
Natural gas may boom by default
The hoax of eco-friendly nuclear energy
Green laws and regulation risk energy crisis, say Europe’s power companies
Retail therapy: Does sadness mean spending?
My cortex made me buy it
Slow sex: Moving toward informed pleasure
The perpetual state of desire that we call ‘human nature’
The ecological economy
Congressman Roscoe Bartlett has made about 30 speeches to the House about peak oil, and a book is in the works. In an interviewer with an Energy Bulletin contributor, he suggests raising the peak oil issue with your Member of Congress.
Why peak oil and climate change must be treated together.
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Around 95% of UK oil production has come from the North Sea. A little oil is also produced from onshore and the Irish Sea off Wales and near to 10% of output now comes from the southern part of the Norwegian Sea, west of the Shetland Isles but in total the UK has seen declining output since 1999.
Ny wife tells me I shouldn’t be talking about these things because don’t I remember that in ancient Greece they killed the messenger that brought bad news. I tell her this is a good-news story. The sooner we start, the easier the trip will be. I’m really exhilarated by this.
Tajikistan ‘facing catastrophe’
Frozen Tajikistan pleads for energy aid
Pakistan industry warns of economic turmoil due to energy crisis
Botswana power shortage a serious obstruction to growth
Energy lessons from South Africa
Crisis spreads to fuel and gas supplies
Recycling can alleviate energy crisis
The South African butterfly (platinum)
How global forces are affecting cities
UK’s rules for front gardens to fight floods
In many communities, it’s not easy going green
Internet interruption in the Middle East looks fishy (Iran oil bourse)
Spying against oil-rich Norway
Gazprom: gas talks with Ukraine end in failure
Chalmers Johnson: Oil wars and overreach
Venezuela’s U.S. assets too hard to freeze: Exxon
Oil resources at stake in Chad conflict
Oil sector’s problem replacing reserves could worsen
Big picture Russia: oil production & taxes
CERA oil conference: the $22 trillion question
Deffeyes: the second Great Depression
Gail Tverberg’s PO tutorial (part 2)
Keeping the oil flowing
Sheryl Crow’s apocalyptic peak oil song
