Nanotech Key To Future Energy Solutions, Nobelist Says
A global-scale energy crisis looms ahead, according to Nobel laureate Richard E. Smalley, who said that nanotechnology will figure centrally in providing technological solutions.
Richard Mullen
The Petroleum Plateau
The realization that modern industrial society is approaching the peak in available net energy to fuel the economy is a powerful shock to one’s entire belief system.
Global Climate Change and Peak Oil – Part One
FTW Science Editor Dale Allen Pfeiffer sets out a detailed picture of the climate change issue and its paramount importance. Part two will consider the dreadful convergence of global climate change and the peak of global oil production.
Citizens Committee on Oil Peak And Decline: A Statement On Global Oil Peak
The Statement is designed to be published in national and local newspapers, news magazines, the United Nations, NGO newsletters, and any other organ of public discussion.
GDP EFFECTS OF AN ENERGY PRICE SHOCK
A study of the impact on China’s economy of an oil price shock ($95 per barrel) published in a Rand Corporation report. See link for full text.
When, and how exactly, does the party end?
An interesting email discussion between Richard Duncan and Richard Heinberg concerning Duncan’s Olduvai Theory of industrial collapse.
Human brain “paid off” by long life
Children in modern day hunter-gatherer societies consume more calories than they produce, accumulating an enormous debt that peaks at age 20.
Biofuel may clean up as world farm prices flounder
Fuel ethanol distilled from crops such as corn and rapeseed could be the solution for countries seeking an outlet for huge agricultural surpluses.
A sunshine limit to growth
Sustainable development based on prevailing patterns of resource use is not even theoretically conceivable.
The coming helium shortage
Where will you be when the world runs out of helium? It’s surprising how many scientists and nonscientists alike are oblivious of the pending helium shortage. But it is a fact—we will run out of helium.
Can Organic Farming “Feed the World”?
Do we really need to embark upon another risky technological fix to solve the mistakes of a previous one? Instead, we should be looking for solutions that are based on ecological and biological principles and have significantly fewer environmental costs.
After Oil
The weightless economy still has dirty old oil pumping through its veins, as the recent fuel blockades demonstrated, says David Fleming. In the next ten years, the growing demand for oil will permanently overtake a shrinking supply — playing havoc with price. Why are western governments doing nothing to prepare?
