The peak oil crisis: We are starting to dim
The world may shortly be divided into countries that have general access to electricity and those who don’t.
Electricity
A shell game of coal dust and green olympics
China has leapfrogged to where we in the West will be within a decade: using coal to power our economies and cities as conventional worldwide oil production continues to decline.
Renewables – Jan 17
SkySails and airborne wind turbines
China poised to be world leader in renewables
Scientific American: A solar grand plan
Sustainable energy grad school in Iceland
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 15
Slow Money Revolution: the global growth of local currencies
Grow your own way: How to join the allotment in-crowd
Toward a post-oil community
Ted Trainer and Rob Hopkins interview continued
Peak Moment: What Can One Person Do?
Peak Oil Review – January 14th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The Economic Slowdown
– Troubles in Central Africa
– Electricity Shortages
– Energy Briefs
Wood is more precious than gold
You can’t eat gold like you can the bounty of trees in fruits, nuts, maple syrup, and various edible mushrooms and herbal treasures of the woodland. You can’t warm yourself with gold. You can’t bask in the shade of gold.
Renewables – Jan 4
Wafer-thin solar cells brings green power closer
New energy uses for asphalt
Shell, Biopetroleum to build algae plant
Europe’s biodiesel drive sputters
Burning biofuels may be worse than coal and oil, say experts
China – Jan 4
China looks to coal bed methane
Chinese shrug off $100 oil
Mao’s home province goes green
Neighbors wary of China’s Three Gorges dam
Peak oil community – Jan 2
January ASPO Newsletter
The Oil Drum year in review
Robert Rapier’s top 10 energy stories
Draft of “Net Oil Export” paper – comments?
Deep thought – Dec 20
My ancestral carbon footprint (England)
Charlie Hall’s balloon graph – no smooth transition to post-peak
Hostility to the notion of limits to growth
Bags packed for doomsday (NZ)
United States – Dec 19
Newt Gingrich: Red staters must turn green
Green gains momentum on military bases
A very green year
Former coal exec tapped for DOE seat
Former Calif EPA Director calls for tobacco-like lawsuits against petroleum giants
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 18
Energetic students empower Cal Poly
Peak-proof music
Ted Trainer’s Transition Q&A
You’d better (not) shop around
Bottled water boycotts: Back-to-the-tap movement
