Transport – July 16
NYC congestion plan down to wire
A new French Revolution: let them ride bikes
Staff
Peak oil and the coming report from the National Petroleum Council – July 16
Wall Street Journal on NPC’s report
Oil industry admits it cannot save us
ASPO-USA special on NPC report
Robert Rapier: Peak Lite revisited
Kunstler: Psychotic break
Energy price could bust the boom
Letter to Airmen – energy update
As a part of our nation’s defense, we should consider what we need to be available in the event of an interruption in energy supplies, and to push technologies that reduce our energy demand.
Renewables – July 16
Big Oil’s impact on research is debated
World’s largest solar energy farm
Solar power wins enthusiasts but not money
Turbine shortage to leave some Scottish communities in the dark
Saudi Arabia invests in renewables
In West China, saving the go-go juice
Along the way to Lai Tan, I wanted to gaze out of bus windows and simply compare the differences between Chinese and western methods of fossil fuel use and human power, but first I had to get to the bus station.
On the precipice: Energy security and economic stability on the edge
I am a Major in the United States Army. …I set out to discover what some of the best minds in the world had to say about what the world might look like 20-plus years from now. Specifically, I intended to examine population growth, food production, water availability, and energy supplies. What I discovered shocked me. (Online report)
Food & agriculture – July 16
Battle between the bottle and the faucet
UN warns it cannot afford to feed the world
Kenyan fury at threat to organic trade
Groceries gobble up budgets
Italians facing pasta price rise
Astyk: Low energy food preservation
Digesting Lovelock left and right
Lovelock’s main message is far more disturbing than anything he has said about nuclear energy, wind turbines or pesticides. That message is that we must put Gaia, the great climate and physical system of the Earth which sustains life, first before any other concern.
Depletion news – July 15
ODAC News
Oilwatch Monthly
Britain: When the wells dry up
Sky-high oil prices signal higher rates
Deep thought – July 15
John Michael Greer: Banners in the Wind (fiction of the deindustrial future)
Joe Bageant: The Ants of Gaia
Econ-Utopia: the bloodless revolution
Environmental economics in the works of Henry Carey and Karl Marx
The week peak oil went mainstream – July 15
Former UK Times Editor: Are these the last days of the Oil Age?
China booms- we pay the price
Kenneth S. Deffeyes: Sunset
Australian senator: Blood for oil
If you’re in a hole, merge. But is it too late for BP and Shell?
Chris Skrewbowski on the dramatic shortage of new LNG mega projects
The case for the electric tractor
In our search for ways to reduce the tension between food vs. fuel comes the latest Energy Farm Demonstration Project: The Electric Tractor.
Not only does this appear to be an economically wise investment, but electric tractors are a pleasure to use.
