Peak oil notes – May 14
A weekly round up including:
– Prices and production
– Venezuela
– China
Energy Policy
United States – May 13
Green ‘Czar’ Pushes Jobs, Community-Building (audio & text)
Obama’s Weird Idea of Auto Industry Rescue: Use Our Money to Build Car Factories Abroad
Buying Brand Obama
Kunstler: Decoupling From Reality
Getting America Off Oil: The Oil Solutions Initiative
The end of the Information Age
Prophets of an indefinite expansion of today’s “information society” too often forget that information doesn’t exist by itself; it requires a physical substrate, and if that goes away, so does the information. As the age of cheap energy comes to an end, relying on a substrate as energy-intensive as the internet may be a risky bet.
Never put off until tomorrow…
“Oh Lord, make me carbon-neutral, but not yet.”
— Carl Mortished in the Times Online
Peak oil review – May 11
A weekly review including:
– Production and Prices
– Venezuela
– EU Gas Deal
– The Message sinks in
Peak oil – May 11
Jeff Rubin’s new book on peak oil
Canada’s reckless carbon habit
Oil: No Supply Side Answer to the Coming Crisis
Energy industry – May 11
The Vulnerability of Energy Infrastructure to Environmental Change
“New” Nuclear Reactors, Same Old Story
Safety threat to planned nuclear power stations
Transport – May 11
Bioelectricity better than biofuels for transport
U.S. Drops Research Into Fuel Cells for Cars
Flush with Camaro orders, GM workers on OT
ODAC Newsletter – May 8
A weekly review from a UK perspective
Peak resources – May 7
Report: The Interplay between Climate Change and Peak Oil
Blind Spot Trailer
Action on peak oil essential for business survival, say UK transport chiefs
Iraq – May 7
Heritage Oil strikes big in Kurdish Iraq
Oil groups set to end 40-year exile from Iraq
Iraq bloodshed rises as US allies defect
Towards a new economy – May 6
Review: Prosperity Without Growth? by Professor Tim Jackson
Will Workers Be Left Behind in a Green Transition?
Greener Companies “More Crunch-Proof”
