Wall Street Journal interviews Wayland teacher about ‘peak oil’
Middle School teacher Aaron Wissner wants to get the word out that energy is about to get very expensive — a Wall Street Journal article would do nicely.
Education
Peak oil – Feb 6
Minnesota state legislators discuss oil reserves drying up
Lester Brown: World oil supply may have already peaked
Gail the Actuary: The science of oil and peak oil
Group bets $100,000 against CERA supply forecast
A group of businessmen and energy experts who believe that global oil production will soon peak, plateau and decline has issued a $100,000 wager to Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), a prominent oil forecasting think tank. Members of the challenger group also renewed an invitation to hold a public debate on the issue of peak oil with CERA.
CERA’s productive capacity ruse
Why do Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) state all of their forecasts in terms of a made-up category which bears no meaningful relationship to how much actual oil is available for refining at any given time to meet world demand?
Deep thought – Feb 5
I am human, I’m American, and I’m an addict…
The Tata Nano strikes back – Does Jeavons’ Paradox apply to productivity, too?
Jeffersonian agrarianism and the question of slavery
A material world
On Monbiot’s population comments
The acorn tree syndrome strikes again
Is it not scary when so many people no longer know that potatoes grow underground? Can the nature-illiterate vote intelligently about food issues?
Deep thought – Jan 30
The converging crisis: ecology, energy and economics (Ottawa talk tonight)
A Prosperous Way Down by the Odums
A global view of peopled nature
Science 1101 – Petroleum and peak oil
A university near where I live plans to add a short unit on “Petroleum and Peak Oil” to their Science 1101 course for freshman who are not science majors. The university asked me to prepare materials for the unit. (Draft)
Peak oil: Why is it so difficult to explain/understand?
Peak Oil is about RATE. And RATE is dependent on the SIZE, AGE and QUALITY of the RESERVES.
The peak oil hometeam – Jan 16
Robert Ebersole (“oilman bob” of TOD) passes on
How peak oil changed my life
Quebec group: Peak oil, peak phosphorus and sustainability
Kunstler and Greer in adult education
Australian Greens Senators on peak oil
Energy debate in Switzerland – the civilized approach
Open letter to Kevin Rudd, Australia’s new Prime Minister
The newly elected PM is taking over at a time of looming economic crisis due to Peak Oil. An Australian engineer describes the problem and outlines the steps he thinks are required.
Peak oil – Dec 3
Oil decline pressing Vermonters now
Connecticut legislator in a bind: PO vs LNG
IBM engineer on peak oil
Peak oil, class struggle, and the thermodynamics of production
$100 oil fades fast
