Peak oil – July 31
Gail the Actuary: Peak oil – what’s ahead?
What would you pay for a barrel of oil? $100? $200?
Sir David King’s view on peak oil
TOD Canada on the financial crisis
Staff
United States – July 31
Energy bill aids expansion of atomic power
Obama on energy and the environment
The House to debate Energy Bill- join the TOD lobby
Coal & sequestration – July 31
CO2 capture and storage: the economic costs
Earth too warm? Bury the CO2
Esso reckons 20 more years of oil left in Bass Strait (Australia)- bad news for sequestration
Resilience, oil, entropy – July 31
Diesel-driven bee slums and impotent turkeys:
the case for resilience
Jeff Vail: Losing our balance?
Kunstler: Vanishing point
Transport – July 31
The world’s costliest roadworks? Widening the M6- at £1,000 an inch
Europeans reluctant to give up cars
WalkScore and the Great Neighborhood Book
MPs urge government to boost water freight (canals)
Worrying about food – July 31
UK floods underline urgency of achieving national self-reliance in food crops
Copper thieves cripple farms in California
Copper theft spoils food bank groceries ($484,000 worth)
History prof: Worry about bread, not oil
WSJ: Green Revolution at risk of going bust
To peak or not to peak – a view from the front line
I work for a company that is a member of the National Petroleum Council (NPC), but I am not a big hairy monster who dips his food in crude oil before devouring it. Similarly, I do not believe that the NPC and its affiliate members are conspiring to cover up a scenario that paints a dire end time for the world.
Peak Oil Review – July 30th, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective.
Climate – July 30
UK aviation industry takes 5 million people to court
U.S. airlines under pressure to fly greener
Report: global warming causing a doubling of hurricane activity
Tiny Tuvalu fights for its survival
Forest Service worries about bigger fires, climate change
Energy industry – July 29
Gulf royalties targeted again
Coal’s doubters block new wave of power plants
To dismay of power utilities, coal emissions are under fire
Upside down economics
The entire economy stands on the shoulders of agriculture, forestry, and mining (especially the extraction of oil, gas, coal and uranium) and on the utilities that deliver the energy mined in usable form.
A revolutionary report on the future of oil
The IEA Medium Term Report is refreshingly open and balanced in its approach. It is a further nail in the coffin for irresponsibly optimistic future oil production scenarios.
