Plugged In To Global Cooling
A failed Canadian dam project in Belize underscores our growing desperation for energy
Consumption & Demand
Getting there from here
Report from the front lines of the struggle against excess and consumerism.
Natural gas dilemma in Ukraine
The gas addiction of the Ukrainian economy hinders its efforts to become a competitive economy and assert energy independence.
Wall Street Journal advice on global warming – a perspective from Hawai'i
Instead of trying to help its readers understand the causes of the global warming that may devastate the islands and even continents, the WSJ seeks merely to guide its readers to the best of the worsening islands. Such a short-sighted attitude of merely using, rather than preserving, the Earth’s bountiful gifts advances global warming
Coalescence
Summary of patently pro-coal report that makes strong arguments as to why coal is here to stay and what it could look like in years to come.
The Peak Oil Crisis: Waiting for Winter
Survey of the US situation after Katrina and Rita, rightly questioning the received wisdom on demand destruction and actual supply.
$88billion of US corporate debt slides towards junk status
More than $88 billion of U.S. corporate debt is teetering on the edge of investment grade and soon may join the record amount of bonds downgraded to junk this year.
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 10
Greenpeace report on solar power /
London’s answer for traffic congestion /
Umbra loves bikes /
Pollan high on grass, down on corn /
Down and dirty: soil in industrial society /
Ecolanguage /
Hard cash and climate change /
China looks to California for solutions /
White House picks up conservation mantra /
Energy efficiency in Wyoming /
McMansions out of style? /
Save energy around the house
Is the economy spoiled? Are we sour?
There was an economy that loved SUVs /
To haul all its workers far from the cities. /
The cars pushed the economy to depend on more oil. /
But I dunno why it depended on oil; perhaps it will spoil. (To the tune of “There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly”)
Microgrids as peer-to-peer energy
Small networks of power generators in “microgrids” could transform the electricity network in the way that the net changed distributed communication.
Driving us back to the way we were
Good discussion of the dominant worldview in America and some sobering ideas of where we might be headed, and how it may be the best thing for us.
OPEC Set to Open Oil Taps Full Blast
Kenneth Deffeyes, former colleague of M. king Hubbert, frequently tells the story of how he knew Hubbert was right about his US oil peak prediction when he read the headline “Texas Railroad Commission announces 100% allowable” in 1971. The American cartel was pumping full blast.
I wonder what he thought when he read this headline…
