Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
-India’s quest for uranium
-Putin’s China Visit Helps Russia Become Global Energy Supplier
-Iraq cuts foreign deals for major boost to oil output
-The U.S. military’s battle to wean itself off oil
-What’s yours is mine
-Big Oil Front Group Fights for Tar Sands
-Saudis Seek Payments for Any Drop in Oil Revenues
-Clinton: Russia sees Iran threat
-Another setback on Iran
-Iran’s nuclear threat is a lie
It is hard to know where to begin regarding Ambrose Evans-Pritchard’s article entitled “Energy crisis is postponed as new gas rescues the world.” But since the speculative world he invokes has more to with Alice In Wonderland than the hard reality of engineering and science, let us begin – at the end.
Upon the first global recession influenced by the peaking of oil extraction and record high prices, the question for “peak oilers” arises: does peak oil and energy decline mean great profits for modernizing industry, or is peak oil the beginning of huge changes in lifestyle toward sustainability after societal collapse? Those were the two main concerns at play at the fifth annual meeting of the U.S. chapter of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO-USA), in Denver, Oct. 11-13.
Unfortunately I have had to miss the ASPO Meeting in Denver this week, and so cannot provide the daily reports that I have written in the past. But I notice that at least one of the talks has already caught a significant amount of press, and that is the one by Arthur Berman on the gas production from shale deposits such as the Barnett, Haynesville and Marcellus.
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– China
-Oil Demand Has Peaked in Developed Nations, Never to Return — Report
-Why Oil Is Much More Plentiful Than “Peak Oil” Advocates Claim
-Russia 2010 oil output to fall -Bernstein analysts
-Crude Oil Jumps Above $75 to One-Year High on Demand Optimism
-SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling (and some other stuff)?
-Edward Burtynsky’s Oil
-Is Michelle Obama about to take on Big Food?
-Carolyn Steel on How Food Shapes Our Cities
-Qatar Airways uses natural gas fuel on flight from London
-Sellers on the spot ahead of gas war
-Assembly of peak oil experts look at shale gas
I mourn because the solution is right in front of us, yet we run from it. We fail to recognize our salvation for what it is, believing it to be dystopia instead of utopia. Are we waiting for the last human on the planet to start the crusade?
-World’s airlines pledge to cut emissions by 2050
-Cars must be electric, says climate tsar
-Climate Change: Four Degrees of Devastation
I’m happy to have the opportunity to spend the next few minutes sharing some personal thoughts on the subjects that bring us together for this excellent event—thoughts based on my experience, during the past few years, of trying to get the message of Peak Oil out to an ever-wider audience.
