Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The report [for the Washington D.C. area] acknowledges and even describes in much detail that there is a debate going on about peak oil. Unfortunately when the authors start talking about production starting to peak 20 years from now the sense of urgency is somehow lost.
Reviews of two recently released documentaries.
It is now official. China is embarking on the world’s largest synthetic fuels program. This has immediate implications for energy planners everywhere, for worldwide finance and capital expenditure, for the global coal markets, for the ecological footprint of Chinese development, for emissions of greenhouse gases…
Will Mexico be ready when oil runs dry?
Mexico’s energy crisis has arrived
Feeding frenzy for African oil fields gathers pace
Uganda urged to Emulate Libya
Big Oil headed for tougher Congress
Australia’s Woodside cuts 2006 output target
The Italian infrastructure may just be one the best adapted for the energy-constrained future into which we are now heading.
South Africas ethanol landscape
Extracting grain of truth on ethanol
Consumer Reports: The ethanol myth
India backs down on blending
Honda claims cellulose breakthrough
IMF: risk of global crash is increasing
Java-Bali electricity supply reduced
America’s unreal estate problem
Ford offers early retirement to US workforce
Gulf oil find won’t alter prices now
As fossil fuel depletion brings the industrial age to an end, the shift to a much lower level of energy use per capita will bring sweeping changes to every aspect of life. This essay, the first of a series, outlines what a low-energy future would mean for America and its people.
Prof. Keith Barnham on solar and nuclear
Relaunching Energize America; launching Energize Europe
Where’s your ecovillage as meltdown approaches?
New Carpool Website supports Oil Depletion Protocol
There’s no arguing the fact that the successful test results from Chevron’s newest golden boy in the Gulf of Mexico, lightly called Jack, are truly noteworthy. But we need to put some things into perspective before falling head over heels in love.
Bangladesh cans UK firms coal mine plans
China to make olefins from coal
Coal keeps US economy burning
Rail seeks ways to haul more Wyoming coal
Texas’ coal-burning question
Science fiction movies used to scare us with out-of-control robots bent
on world destruction. If there’s a runaway robot now, it’s global
corporations doing what’s best for the shareholder rather than the
citizens and nations of the world.
