Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Discussions of net energy often miss the energy costs of distributing energy and putting it to its end use. These systems costs pose a major challenge to some proposed alternative energy sources, but they also offer support for an old but neglected response to today’s energy predicament.
Libya to redefine contracts with oil companies
The battle of Basra and its oil dimension
Abu Dhabi may face blackouts
Amping up solar power in Southern California
New Calif 250MW photovoltaic initiative
Time:
The clean energy scam
Wind power breaks records in Spain
Denmark embraces a clean green dream
Vermont takes a baby step
Portland (Maine) – roadmap to sustainability
Energy shortages are now so frequent across the world there is a new web site devoted to keeping track of them all. There are currently 96 different places in the world that have reported some form of energy shortages in recent months.
ASPO hopes for a PO caucus in Mass.
Peak oil “Civil Defense Manual” for BC
Peak oil? Consider it solved
Mich. PO conference spkr deadline Mar 31
We live in a finite world, and we are reaching limits in many ways – easy to extract oil is being exhausted, fresh water is in increasingly short supply, and climate change caused by human activity is becoming more of an issue. Because of these constraints, it is likely that economic growth will stagnate and eventually decline. [Transcript of a talk]
Scorned trash pickers become global environmental force
New green query: how often do you shower?
Project laundry list: “Hanging out” is time well spent
Renewable energy – the gritty reality
Bambi and Nemo are ‘unsung heroes of the green lobby’
Where are all the clean, green jobs?
Robert Rapier on green jobs
Can the smart grid save the economy?
Direction of green business in an economic slowdown
Lofty pledge to cut emissions comes with caveat in Norway
Climate change ‘is accelerating’ :Aggreko
Code Red interview (transcript)
Rise in US utilities carbon emissions
Twenty years ago this month, I interviewed Marion King Hubbert at his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Hubbert was a brilliant and opinionated man. If he were alive, he would no doubt be fascinated by the quadrupling in oil prices and the increasingly vigorous discussion of peak oil.
James Hansen on climate change, science censorship and peak oil
Joseph Kennedy: We need a new bargain with Big Oil
Slump moves from Wall St. to Main St.
Climate-friendly Republican – ex-Congressman Boehlert
US `wide open’ to crippling power blackout
