Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Interview with Matt Simmons
US petroleum supply: some overview graphs
Broadband vs. peak oil revisited
New book: Over a Barrel: A Simple Guide to the Oil Shortage
Petrobras sees Tupi peak production in 10-15 years
Peak oil bibliography
If we call those pessimistic about the future “Doomers,” what do we call those who are blindly and enthusiastically optimistic? We might call such optimism a “Panglossian Disorder” and the Peak Shrink suggest that it is a tough, culturally ubiquitous disorder to treat.
The views of the oil industry on Peak Oil are divided, ranging from a non-event to getting there fast. Here I try to give the opinions of oil company executives about Peak Oil and related issues.
CERA chairman Daniel Yergin co-edited a book in 1979 that argued for solar power and energy conservation. The book was pessimistic about the future for oil in an America that had passed its point of peak oil production.
No more complaints about the media! Read this so you’ll be ready when a reporter calls. Or if you want to write better articles.
An increasingly popular parlor game among peak oil activists is to see who can serve up the most shocking morsel of peak oil news at any one sitting. There are now plenty of morsels to choose from on an almost daily basis.
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) recently made available on its website a large poster explaining peak oil. Most of the text is reproduced here.
Complete notes on ASPO-USA conference
On the other side of the mountain (=PO)
It’s not ‘oil’, it’s ‘liquids’
Australia: the place to be
This volume is a major modernization of Odum’s classic work on the significance of power and its role in society, bringing his approach and insight to a whole new generation of students and scholars. (Odum is an intellectual godfather to the peak oil and sustainability movements.)
Brave B.C. talks true carbon tax
Second inconvenient truth: greenhouse gases must be taxed
Alberta royalty grab stuns oil industry
Is Alberta out of step with the world? (no)
Rabaska: une étude démolit l’argument écologique (problems of energy substitution in a free market)
Panel urges global shift on sources of energy
The Energy Solution: Do Something
Nobel conference lectures on energy now online
Interview with Chris Skrebowski of UK Petroleum Review
EWG: Peak Oil could trigger meltdown of society
Executive summary of report
Rob Hopkins of Transition Culture
RGE Monitor (consultancy)
Other coverage
