Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
– Canada helps create an oil sands world (Brace for a global ‘age of tough oil.’)
– South Africa is nearing peak coal, say scientists
– Peak oil interview with Robert Rapier
– Chicken Little updated for the Age of Peak Oil and Climate Change (criticism of Charles Maxwell)
We [in Cuba] have indeed implemented a mass campaign to conserve energy, but I don’t believe that there exists a deep change in our policies or mentality in this same sense.
Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has given the strongest indication yet that the coalition government is actually considering the possible impacts of peak oil. “We will have a world where there may be lots of shocks, we may well have oil price rises which are similar to the ones that we had in the 1970s, a doubling”, he told a fringe meeting of the Lib Dem conference…
1) There is a theoretical limit to how long a networked resource system can continue to function.
2) This limit is reached with little warning.
3) Even after the limit is approached and the squeeze on networked resources starts, the nature of the problem is not apparent to the resource producers, who are likely to say “there is still plenty of our resource available – we just need more inputs and better price signals”
The collapse of the talks at Copenhagen took away all momentum for change and the lobbyists are back in control. So what next?
– China resorts to blackouts in pursuit of energy efficiency
– Air Conditioning Innovation Uses 90% Less Power
– Solar on the Cheap: Thanks Purple Pokeberry!
– Ten Ways the Feds Are Leading the Green Charge
– Busting Myths About Photovoltaics
– Rising wheat prices raise fears over UK commitment to biofuels
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-Economic recovery?
-Taxes, regulations and moratoria
-Brazil in the news
-Briefs
If you want to know which way the global wind is blowing (or the sun shining or the coal burning), watch China. That’s the news for our energy future and for the future of great-power politics on planet Earth. Washington is already watching — with anxiety.
– Germany and the UK Prepare for Peak Oil
– Exclusive interview: Robert Hirsch
– Analyst Charles Maxwell: Bracing For Peak Oil Production By Decade’s End
– Geoscientist: Have we passed the point of Peak Oil?
– Future Fear (video and transcript)
The co-author of the famous Hirsch report gives an exclusive interview to a French journalist.
This week saw the 50th anniversary of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The anniversary finds the organisation in what at first sight looks like a fairly comfortable position…
A veteran campaigner I deeply respect who said: “Show Obama you can’t be taken for granted, and I predict you will be amazed at the good things that come your way. … This is how the game is played. Get their respect!”
