Peak oil – July 18
NY Times on the NPC report
Dow Jones on the NPC report
Online peak oil book from “Gail the Actuary”
The IEA’s come-to-Jesus moment
Peak oil and entertainment tech
Education
Fatih Birol interview in Le Monde full translation
Full translation of June 26 interview with Fatih Birol, chief economist with the International Energy Agency, in which Birol predicts the oil market will face ‘a wall’ between now and 2015.
National Petroleum Council report comes up a dry hole
The NPC Study [on oil supplies] is woefully inadequate, leaving the Secretary of Energy and the American public with inadequate warning of the huge economic and social risks that many experts believe are just around the corner.
Peak oil – July 17
NPC report suggests opening areas to drilling, increasing fuel efficiency standards
NPC report: Demand to outpace crude supplies
British MP interviews David Strahan (The Last Oil Shock author)
Reason: The end of cheap oil?
Canada energy news round-up
Study of world oil resources with a comparison to IPCC emissions scenarios (thesis)
Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and the environment
Excerpts from three essays examining the teachings of Buddhism, Islam, and Hinduism for relevance to ‘the environment and the human future’.
In West China, saving the go-go juice
Along the way to Lai Tan, I wanted to gaze out of bus windows and simply compare the differences between Chinese and western methods of fossil fuel use and human power, but first I had to get to the bus station.
Peak oil – July 11
Dan Bednarz in Orion: Medicine after oil
Steve Andrews of ASPO-USA on CNBC
Interview: Les Magoon on USGS 2000 report
Peak oil in BBC play: Second To Midnight
Geophysicist: Will higher prices bring more supplies?
Cesare Marchetti’s curves (energy substitution model)
Peak oil – July 10
Play peak oil before you live it
U.K. Parliament members form peak oil group
Net oil exports and the “Iron Triangle”
ODAC News
Energieagentur schlägt Alarm
Feeling peaky (a peaknik in all but name)
Napping on the railroad tracks
“Even if you agree with a given forecast, you have to worry about the real possibility of significant divergence from it,” writes Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. How might he apply this to the peak oil issue?
Weird – July 9
Energy-from-nothing device fails to move
Perpetual commotion: Huckster or genius?
Energy investors take note: The Second Law of Thermodynamics still applies
Energy, climate and the future of health
“If our public health and health-delivering institutions are to adapt to major natural environmental changes in the 21st century, they must develop a cooperative, conceptually inventive and integrated response to global warming and peak oil.” (A working issue brief being circulated to health departments and hospital administrators across the country.)
Crisis, what energy crisis?
Over 50 links to Oil Drum articles from the past year are provided which combined provide a comprehensive overview of the issues surrounding peak oil and energy decline. (Great resource.)
