Peak oil & prices – Jan 22
The Dystopians
Interview with James Howard Kunstler
Top 100 Stories of 2008 #1: The Post-Oil Era Begins
Oil Price Over $100, in a Blink
Biofuels
Renewables & efficiency Jan 22
The Cost of the Biofuel Boom: Destroying Indonesia’s Forests
Advice to Pres. Obama: go for wind power, seriously
Open Letter on Biofuels
Crunching Electricity Demand With Smart Grids
EntropyPawsed Solar Electric System
United States – Jan 19
Krugman’s letter to Obama
Wind, ethanol cloud our difficult energy choices
Reelin’ in the Green
Deep Thought – Jan 14
Alex Steffen: Where We Are And Where We’re Going
Reality Report: Bill McKibben
The Effect of Natural Gradients on the Net Energy Profits from Corn Ethanol
Transport – Jan 13
Cash crunch slows high-speed rail project
A move toward veggie power aloft
Toyota to build electric town car, plug-in hybrids
Mayo Energy Audit (review)
Ever since I read the Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan I realised that the next step would be a detailed accounting of energy consumption for a town or region, and an analysis of potential local renewable supplies. The Mayo Energy Audit does all this and more and represents an important next step in the energy descent process for County Mayo in the West of Ireland.
Renewables & efficiency Jan 7
The beauty of the backyard turbine
Windmills in India
The High-Tech Search For A Cleaner Biofuel Alternative
Food & agriculture – Jan 5
Chickens given roosts in urban backyards
Coffee next in line as biofuel source
Universal Food Stamps? If the Industrial Food System No Longer Provides Cheap Food, What Are We Keeping It For, Anyway?
Transport – Jan 1
Sail Transport Network hauls food across the sea
Airlines ‘shrinking by all measures’ – report
Jatropha-fuelled plane touches down after successful test flight
Japan auto sales plunge as young lose interest
Ditching car OK with Net transit planners
The fire fiddler
Even today, as the peak oil age arrives, fire fiddling can be once more a practical skill, even an art. Everyone knows that fireplaces are not efficient home heaters— most of the heat goes up the chimney. But a master fire fiddler can get twice as much heat out of a fireplace as a beginner.
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).
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
