Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Against the backdrop of widespread economic carnage, the fact that global oil production likely peaked last summer seems almost irrelevant. The prevailing meme has long been that since oil created prosperity, peak oil would devastate it-but derivatives launched a pre-emptive strike.
Matt Simmons sees oil shock from credit crunch
Kurt Cobb: Is thorium an energy alchemist’s dream?
Energy pundits duke it out at Aspen Institute
Social critic James Kunstler offers a decidedly darker view
CBC on peak oil, Transition Town Totnes and Robert Hirsch
Jeff Rubin: Oil scarcity will spell end of globalisation
Postcard from Pipelineistan
China Takes Aim at Dollar
The Mexican Evolution
Trade is Falling Faster in 2009 Than in 1930
Why More of the Same Will Not Work
The Secretary of Synthetic Biology
Washington County puts its energy into saving energy
Leaving PCs on overnight costs companies $2.8B a year
Greenwash: Shell betrays ‘new energy future’ promises
A weekly review from a UK perspective
Energy Secretary Steven Chu has recast the energy problem to give himself the 20 to 80 years he requires to find a way to replace oil. His long range solution involves applications of synthetic biology to create 4th generation biofuels. Is this a good solution? Is it realistic?
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– Venezuela
What do bailouts of failed financial corporations and funding for current fusion power initiatives have in common? If Arnold Toynbee is right, one of the keynotes of our collective failure to respond to the crisis of industrial civilization.
Big new report from McKinsey: “Averting the next energy crisis: The demand challenge”
The Next Five Years–Peak Lite and the Current Oil Picture
Natural Gas, Suddenly Abundant, Is Cheaper
Hydropower from old washing machines
‘Biochar’ goes industrial with giant microwaves to lock carbon in charcoal
WSJ: Everyone hates ethanol
Feed-in tariff in Minnesota and Hawaii
Renewable Energy Dividends – REDs
This content is no longer available. It was a pre-publication draft of a section of “Energy Limits to Growth,” a report that will be published in expanded form by Post Carbon Institute and International Forum on globalization in May.
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
