Peak oil, prices, and supplies – Feb 23
-Goldilocks and the three fuels
-Israel Urges Iran Oil Embargo Even Without U.N. Okay
-Why Peak Oil Is The Only Thing That Can Stop The Chinese Export Deluge
Consumption & Demand
The Bloom Box: An Energy Breakthrough?
Fuel cell company Bloom Energy made quite a stir over the weekend, with a spot on the CBS “Sixty Minutes” TV program in the United States (The Bloom Box: An Energy Breakthrough? – see the link for the video and transcript).
Peak Oil Review – Feb 22
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-The Iranian standoff
-Nuclear power for the U.S.
-Quote of the week
-Briefs
It isn’t gridcrash that makes the lights go out
Electricity for private homes is something that was not necessary through most of human history, and is not truly essential today.
Into the Widening Gyre: Social Marketing Meets Peak Oil (book review)
While reading Gerald Zaltman and Lindsay Zaltman’s Marketing Metaphoria: What deep metaphors reveal about the minds of consumers, (MM), I recalled a healthcare consultant who told me, “You really should market peak oil, but you’ve got to give folks some good news to win them over.” I laughed and replied, “Are you kidding? I’m not selling whiter teeth”…
Commentary: The Redundant Subsidy
Even for staunch proponents of U.S. biofuel policy, it is hard to argue that the current subsidy on grain ethanol serves the purpose it was designed to serve. With ethanol mandates now in place in the form of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), there is a mechanism – with penalties for non-compliance – to ensure that gasoline blenders use the mandated amount of ethanol. Maintaining a subsidy on top of a mandate would be like paying people to obey the speed limit.
Transition – Feb 21
– Diversity
– Solidarity
– A former urbanite puts down green roots
– The easy pleasures of a simplified living space
U.S. – a new nuclear nation? – Feb 18
-In Bid to Revive Nuclear Power, U.S. Is Backing New Reactors
-The Nuclear Energy Debate
-Obama’s Nuclear Giveaway
Biofuels – Feb 18
-Controversy mounts in EU over fall-out from biofuel
-British Airways to fly jets on green fuel made from London’s rubbish by 2014
-BA’s biofuels plans mean a lot of garbage: the problem of “peak waste”
Renewables & efficiency – Feb 18
-What’s stopping us getting solar power from deserts?
-Norway plans the world’s most powerful wind turbine
-It’s Green Against Green In Mojave Desert Solar Battle
Peak oil notes – Feb 18
A midweek roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-Iran
Obama: The Making of a Clean Coal President
President Obama has issued marching orders for the rapid national adoption of “clean coal” technology. Last week, shortly after his budget address, he ordered a high-level task force to deliver a plan within 180 days determining how “to overcome barriers to the widespread, cost-effective deployment of CCS within 10 years, with the goal of bringing 5 to 10 commercial demonstration projects on line by 2016.”
