Is there life after oil?
James Howard Kunstler is America’s version of an Old Testament prophet, a stinging social critic who warns of dark days ahead if we do not change the way we live. (Interview)
Brian Kaller
Review: Reinventing Collapse by Dmitry Orlov
In comparing the responses of the US and the Soviet Union to collapse, Orlov takes on the task of breaking it to American readers that the very successes that made them so rich (a few anyway) and so great, will help not at all.
Last week’s EIA conference
It would be nice if the world were really like the EIA oil supply models! Also: If you expect that plug-in cars will save the day, you may want to check out what the electricity people are saying about the current state of electrical supply.
Food crisis – Apr 19
New York Times: Across globe, empty bellies bring rising anger
UK Mail reveals food prices rising at SIX times official figure
Sticker shock in the organic aisles
Agriculture – Apr 19
A drought in Australia, a global shortage of rice
Potash the new crude
Sulphur: From waste byproduct to billion-dollar commodity
ODAC Guest Commentary – Brazil Carioca find
The discoveries during 2007 of Carioca in BM-S-9 and Sugar Loaf in BM-S-8 within the Santos Basin, as well as other discoveries in the region, are very significant in that they confirm the potential of the sub-salt play originally identified in Tupi (BM-S-11) in 2006. Tupi pointed to the potential of the area for further oil and gas accumulations buried beneath a layer of salt and these wells confirm that potential.
ODAC Guest Commentary – Arctic methane hydrate
Methane hydrates, which are formations of methane gas molecules enclosed in ‘cages’ of water ice, represent an enormous reservoir of fossil carbon. Although the magnitude of this reservoir is still highly uncertain, it is widely believed to contain thousands of giga-tonnes of carbon (GtC).
Dysfunction – Apr 18
In Africa, outages stifle a boom
Plastics: adored, deplored and ubiquitous
Prices – Apr 18
Surge in NG price stoked by new global trade
Pickens reverses position to bet on higher oil prices
Why don’t we …. Apr 18
Wall Street and Washington are failing spectacularly – where do we go? (Howard Dean advisor)
The Commons revisited: The tragedy continues (solution: Unitax)
Mother Jones: Our new energy crisis
Peak oil – Apr 18
Middle East crude exports set to double in 2030
How not to prepare for peak oil
What future awaits Russia and the world after oil
Climate – Apr 18
Stern warns that climate change is far worse than 2006 estimate
TIME: How to win the war on global warming
