Peak oil & supplies – Oct 12
– Experts at ASPO Conference Fear Big New U.S. Job Losses, Economic Downturn
– White House to Lift Ban on Deep-Water Drilling
– ASPO-USA: New Warnings About the Challenges of Oil Depletion
– Kurt Cobb’s peak oil novel
Energy Policy
A critique of Chapter XVII of the new book by Hirsch, Bezdek, and Wendling.
This chapter is a scandal to the peak oil movement (if there is such a thing as a “peak oil movement”). I suspect it will go a long way toward discrediting peak oil as an oil company conspiracy to both raise the price of oil and destroy the planet in the process. They attempt to create doubt about anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in order to advance their own thesis about how to best mitigate declining oil production.
The promise of fusion: energy miracle or mirage?
The U.S. has invested billions of dollars trying to create a controlled form of nuclear fusion that could be the energy source for an endless supply of electricity. But as a federal laboratory prepares for a key test of the latest technology, even the project’s most enthusiastic supporters concede an actual pilot fusion plant is at least a decade away.
Peak Oil Review – Oct 11
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil production
-Climate talks
-The global food situation
-Iraq
ASPO-USA conference, first evening
TOD co-founder Summers blogs on talks on EROEI, military, economics and transportation.
Coverage of the ASPO-USA conference – Oct 10
– ASPO’s Baldauf discusses policy options on E&E TV
– John blogs the breakout sessions
– Sharon Astyk on Beginnings
– Attack of the Chicken People
– Huffington Post: Peak Oil and Convention Deserve Our Attention
– World oil shortages would center on liquid fuels, forum told
National responses – Oct 10
– Green Party strong in Brazil
– Syriana: Yours to stream or download
– Look past China’s smog and noise and you can see greener action
ASPO-USA conference, second day, before lunch
Reports on talks by Jim Baldauf, Chris Skrebowski, Jeremy Gilbert, Dr. James Schlesinger, Roger Bezdek, Arthur Berman and Charles Maxwell.
ASPO-USA conference – Oct 8
– The End of Oil As We Know It
– Jeff Rubin: Canada’s two new solitudes
– Crafting A Peak Oil “Narrative”
– Bianca Jagger: Now Is the Time to Move Beyond Petroleum
Good ideas – Oct 8
– Ruppert interviews Peak Moment’s Donaldson Oct 10 at 6pm PDT
– Past Peak Oil Travelling Towards Transition Animation
– Pachakuti: Indigenous perspectives, degrowth and ecosocialism
– 7 Steps to Civility this Election Season
– Wake Up Americans: It’s Time to Get Off the Work Treadmill
Climate campaigns – Oct 6
– White House goes green with solar panels
– The New Yorker on how the Senate & White House missed their best chance to deal with climate change
– Business is changing the landscape of the climate battleground
– California’s Proposition 23: The Real Job Killer
Peak oil & supplies – Oct 6
– Is Venezuela the Next Flashpoint for Oil?
– Iraq Is Back In The Game
– Jim Baldauf of ASPO-USA in “The Hill”: the end of oil as we know it
– Jeff Rubin: Depletion Is Economic, Not Just Geological, Concept
– Shale oil boom underlines importance of innovations on another fuel – oil shale
– LNG Trumped
