Peak oil review – Sep 14
A weekly review including:
– Prices and Production
– The IEA Revises its Forecast
– The recovery?
– Briefs
Consumption & Demand
ODAC Newsletter – Sep 11
Another week, another ‘giant’ oil find, leading to predictable claims that ‘peak oil theory’ is toast. Shame nobody bothered to put the numbers in context, but then that’s what ODAC is for…
Renewables & efficiency – Sept 11
-On burning wood, coppicing and pollarding
-Floating challenge for offshore wind turbine
-Renewable Fuel Pretenders
-Pumping Up the Grid: Key Step to Green Energy
-US and China to unveil joint plan to ‘take over’ cleantech market
Peak oil notes – Sep 10
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– The Monthly Oil Market Report
Middle East and Peak Oil – Sept 10
-Debate about peak oil is misleading
-Saudi provides realistic outlook on energy future
-OAPEC to spend $133 bn on boosting refinery output
-Abu Dhabi to invest $10 bn on green projects
-UNDP Arab Human Development Report 2009
Energy companies – Sept 9
-Shifting Alliances Define Energy Debate
-British energy firm in the dock over Amazon project
-Arizona firm in deal to spread sun power to China
Peak oil, prices, and supplies – Sept 9
-Oil Spin
-Oil still has us over a barrel
-Maribynong Peak Oil Contingency Plan
Marshall Auerback: “Many years of economic stagnation” interview: excerpt
…I don’t know if Baker’s statement reflects an “eternal truth”, but oil is undoubtedly a very important component of the global economy and energy (along with food) is a key non-discretionary essential without which we couldn’t sustain our current standard of living. Unlike Europe, the US is still addicted to cheap oil, so the impact of price spikes tends to be felt much more acutely here than it does in the EU or UK…
Scale
Within the span of a couple generations, we abandoned a durable, finely textured, life-affirming set of living arrangements characterized by self-sufficient family farms intermixed with small towns that provided commerce, services, and culture. Worse yet, we traded that model for a coarse-scaled arrangement wholly dependent on ready access to cheap fossil fuels.
Peak Oil Review – Sept 7
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Production and prices
-New discoveries
-Nationalism
-Briefs
Interview with Bob Hirsch – The Stonewalling of Peak Oil
Robert L. Hirsch is the lead author of a seminal report–Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation & Risk Management—written for the US Dept. of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE, NETL) and released in early 2005. He has remained very active with respect to his concerns about peak oil. ASPO-USA’s Steve Andrews tracked him down last week and posed some questions about the report, then and now. Bob will be a presenter at the ASPO-USA conference in Denver next month (October 11-13).
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 4
-How on Earth Can We Feed 8 Billion People?
-Solar Power from Space: Moving Beyond Science Fiction
-Johnson announces awards for ‘low carbon zones’
-The Cruel Cost of Clunkers
-How to Grow Democracy
-Bike-o-rama: A Roundup of the Best in New Bikes, Bike Infrastructure, Blogs, Books and More
