Energy industry – Feb 12
Germaine Greer on Dubai
Tar sands boom hits a sticky patch
Gail the Actuary visits Chevron’s Kern River Facility
Consumption & Demand
Electricity – Feb 12
Does a Big Economy Need Big Power Plants?
Small is ugly if it means we keep burning coal
Big Gav’s smart grid round-up
Renewables & efficiency Feb 12
Wind Turbines in Europe Do Nothing for Emissions-Reduction Goals
New study praises corn as source for ethanol
A line in the green sand
Peak oil notes – Feb 12
A mid-week review, including:
– Prices and production
– Forecasts
Reality Report: Ecological Economics (rebroadcast)
If an economic system is built on myths that aim to defy the laws of physics and ecology we should not be surprised to see it fail. Perhaps we can use this crisis to begin asking the right questions and redesign with human needs and planetary realities in mind. The Reality Report interviews Professor Joshua Farley of the Gund Institute of Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont.
Reality Report: Michael Klare and the geopolitics of resource consumption
In this show, Jason Bradford and Professor Michael Klare discuss the geopolitics of resource competition. Nations are engaging in a dangerous zero sum game as they jostle over finite supplies of fossil fuels, including the positioning of opposing advanced weapons systems in unstable parts of the world.
Commentary: Redefining “peak oil” for the USA
Peak Oil’s impact on the United States will probably be more severe than what most other countries will feel. This follows from a different way of thinking about the problem – availability vs. production…I would suggest that this is not the most useful way to consider the question.
Prices & supplies – Feb 11
Merrill Lynch says global oil production will decline further in coming years
Henry Groppe inteview
The Price of Oil this summer
A new game for America – Feb 11
James Howard Kunstler, Redux
End of Consumption
A new game
Kunstler: Poverty of Imagination
United States – Feb 10
Recession sending more students to comm. colleges
Some Thoughts on the Obama Energy Agenda from the Perspective of Net Energy
Stupid Senate tricks
Peak oil review – Feb 9
A weekly review including:
– Production and Prices
– The Eventual Rebound
– Venezuela
– Briefs
Confusion in the oil patch
A standard story is making the rounds which goes like this: low prices and lack of investment will impair future oil production capacity. When the global economy rebounds, which could happen as early as 2010, oil prices will shoot up again as demand once again outstrips available supply.
