Geopolitics – Oct 2
Oil and Politics in Iran, Iraq and Russia
Mexican president must ride oil’s fortunes
Odell warns of Russian purchase into Shell, BP
Energy Policy
Climate Policy – Sept 29
Calif. governor signs emissions cap
Warming Trend Is Hatching a Business
Vancouver mayor feels heat of global warming
Wa.Post: a crisis that no responsible politician can ignore
MIT: A dangerous energy climate
Panelists at the Emerging Technologies Conference voiced an urgent need for aggressive policies to promote energy efficiency, renewable power sources, and carbon sequestration.
Peak Oil – Sept 28
Oil Shortages? It’s Happened Before. And It Will Happen Again
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Perfect Storm
A reflection on cities of the future
We will be lucky if we can make the transition from our current circumstances to a future of re-sized, re-scaled cities and a reactivated productive rural landscape outside them, with a hierarchy of hamlets, villages, and towns in between, and some ability to conduct commerce and manufacturing.
Renewables – Sept 28
WorldWatch/CAP report on renewables
Schizophrenic biofuels section in otherwise good report
The pied piper of ethanol
The ascent of wind power
Peak Oil – Sept 25
Energy Dept. concludes crude will peak
Recent hype can’t disprove peak oil
Oil peaks, valleys, plateaus and plains
Get ready for oil supplies to dwindle: experts
Put crudely, petrol panic runs out of puff
Kunstler on relocalization and peak oil
Energy policy – Sept 25
Nuclear power pushed for oil sands production
Collapse of oil prices makes gas restraint key to controlling CO2
Untransformed
(Bush and energy technology)
Hearings on Defense energy use
Environmentalists back Putin over Shell’s energy permit
Climate – Sept 25
Scientists shocked as Arctic polar route emerges
Great Warming filmmakers aim to influence U.S. voters
Global meltdown feared: UN report
Carbon offsetting is not just hot air
Biofuels – Sept 24
Biofuels: Green energy or grim reaper?
Farming the World’s Energy
Researchers Caution on Potential of Energy Crops as Invasive Species
Renewables – Sept 24
Silicon Valley explores solar technology
Philippines urged to use its abundant wind
Slow uptake of gasoline alternatives in US
Clinton debuts $1B renewable-energy fund
2006 a tipping point, says Flavin
The test of time
As the petroleum age comes to a close, the hyper-caffeinated rate of technical progress that cheap energy made possible may slow, and we may be forced to return to older, less energy dependent technologies and methods like those of the Romans.
