Energy Policy
Review and application of SSI study, “Known Unknowns: Unconventional Strategic Shocks in Defense Strategy Development”
The Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) at the US Army War College has issued many stimulating research papers in recent years, several of which deal with energy security issues. Nathan Freier’s recent SSI paper (which we will examine here) does not focus on energy issues. Rather, the central purpose of his study is to present a paradigm for the examination of potential strategic shocks.
Peak oil, prices and supplies – Aug 3 (updated with commentary by Richard Heinberg Aug 4)
– Review: A Preliminary Investigation of Energy Return on Energy Investment for Global Oil and Gas Production
– Exclusive Warning: Oil supplies are running out fast
– Another crunch is coming – but will the world act?
Peak oil review – Aug 3
A weekly review including:
– Production and prices
– Priorities
– Mexico
– Briefs
Commentary: Global Energy Drivers in a “Black Swan World”
Last year the global credit crunch and its knock-on effects precipitated the sharpest oil and gas price declines in over two decades. Despite the recent $100+/ Bbl price implosion and subsequent partial recovery, we have now entered an historic inflection point—call it “practical peak oil”—in the global balance of conventional energy supplies…
The Reality Report: Interview with Steve Andrews about the 2009 ASPO-USA Conference
Learn about the planning behind the 2009 conference of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas.
ODAC Newsletter – July 31
A weekly update from a UK perspective.
Clean Energy Act Is Not Going Anywhere
If you have read my book “Detensive Nation”, you know I am concerned about the damage we humans are doing to our environment. Our intensive consumption of energy, arable land, fresh water, and minerals is not sustainable. That means we humans will be forced to adopt a detensive Cultural EcoSystem. In order to ease the pain of this transition, we need a positive, proactive, and intellectually honest political system.
United States – July 28
– California votes down offshore project
– How Can Obama Pay for Healthcare Reform? How about Linking it to a ‘Manhattan Project for Energy Efficiency’?
– Lessons learned from General Motors’ collapse
– Climate Change and the Future of Southern California: Peak Oil and Climate Change Scenarios
– Is the ocean Florida’s untapped energy source?
Transport – July 27
– Questioning the direction of transportation policy
– Recession brings sharp fall in UK road deaths
– Relocalizing Vermont: We Just Paid $3,500 for Poultney Man’s 18 mpg Truck
Boiling The Frog: Nuclear Optimism Hides True Costs Till It’s Too Late
There is a well-known story about how to boil a frog. If you try to throw a frog into a pot already boiling, he’ll jump out. However, put a frog into a pot and slowly raise the temperature – and you get frog legs for dinner.
