Biofuels – Dec 24
Fill ‘er up with human fat
Food, fuel and fiber? The challenge of using the earth to grow energy
Obama buys the biofuel hype
New Michigan law allows animal carcasses to be used to make energy
Staff
The moment of darkness
I am a father, and I want my daughter to have a decent life in a strange time. I am in my 30s now, but I knew five of my great-grandparents, all born in the 19th century, and my daughter, if she is lucky, may live to see the 22nd. Her life might span humanity’s most important decades, and before she is even an adult, the world could grow much more difficult – energy shortages, food shortages, economic collapses and a Malthusian crush. I want her to be able to realize what is happening, and not to be bewildered by a domino line of solitary unthinkables.
Potluck – Dec 24
Vancouver mayor promises action on peak oil
The year 2008 in photographs
Sarkozy fears spectre of 1968 haunting Europe
New York Times beefs up environment coverage
Scientists find increased methane levels in Arctic Ocean
Food & agriculture – Dec 24
Small Farm Biochar Kiln awarded funding
Wildman forages for food in Central Park
A national renewable ammonia architecture (“Fully half of all human protein comes from man-made ammonia”)
Aviation fuels and peak oil (thesis)
Future aviation fuel supply is compared to future aviation fuel demand. … This scenario envisages a substantial lack of jet fuel by the year 2026. The aviation industry will have a hard time replacing this with fuel from other sources even if air traffic remains at today’s level. (Thesis advisor: Kjell Aleklett of ASPO).
Consumerism and its critics – Dec24
Opting out of China’s rat race
We don’t find happiness at the mall
Your brain on shopping
The barn raising
“… what followed in the wake of the tornado during the next three weeks was just as awesome as the wind itself. In that time — three weeks — the forest devastation was sawed into lumber and transformed into four big new barns. No massive effort of bulldozers, cranes, semi-trucks, or the National Guard was involved. The surrounding Amish community rolled up its sleeves, hitched up its horses and did it all. Nor were the barns the quick-fix modern structures of sheet metal hung on posts stuck in the ground. They were massive three-story affairs of post-and-beam framing, held together with hundreds of hand-hewn mortises and tenons.”
United States – Dec 24
Obama team plans biggest boost in history to save American economy
America’s stop-and-go energy plan
Energy’s take on Team Obama
Holiday slowdown
Outlook is for reduced posting over the next week, with occasional flurries of activity.
Thanks to the many contributors, writers and readers of Energy Bulletin. And of course to Post Carbon Institute for making it possible.
Peak oil – Dec 23
Energy Investment, Energy Return (Jim Hansen and Charlie Hall)
The American Muslim: The end of the world as we know it?
The Coming Oil Train Wreck
Energy industry – Dec 23
State concerned about waste water from new gas wells
Amazon pollution case could cost Chevron billions
How the West’s Energy Boom Could Threaten Drinking Water for 1 in 12 Americans
United States – Dec 23
Posing as a Bidder, Utah Student Disrupts Government Auction of 150,000 Acres of Wilderness for Oil & Gas Drilling
Robert Rapier: Thoughts on the New Energy Team
More proof Holdren is a great choice
US Environmental Protection Agency faces eleventh-hour shake-up
Will Energy Efficiency Stimulus Distract America from the Real Task at Hand?
