IEA report to the G8 – May 26
The impact of the financial and economic crisis on global energy investment
IEA’s dire warning on green stimulus and renewables
Global electricity use forecast to fall
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil & supplies – May 25
Chinese Oil: Google Images Show Growing Crude Storage in China
Are we moving towards a new oil crisis?
Bust and boom
Peak Oil Review – May 25
A round of peak oil news, including:
-Production and Prices
-Washington
Commentary: Drilling with Charlie – Blizzard in the Badlands
I am no longer in the directional drilling business due to the industry downturn. Since many of us will not be returning to the oil fields, those who have this experience will be fewer in number, and the demands on their time will be great.
Peak oil & supplies – May 23
Colin J. Campbell interview: “Time for solutions is running out”
Former CIBC chief economist Jeff Rubin: Peak-nik
Mexico oil exports plummet
The sinking Titanic: interview with Michael C. Ruppert
Interview with investigative journalist and author Michael C. Ruppert about his new book A Presidential Energy Policy.
Biofuels and coal – May 21
Europe’s overseas push into biofuels
Why farm-state pols rage against the EPA’s biofuel stance
New book from National Academies: Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass
Peak oil notes – May 21
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– Brazil turns to China
– Obama administration accord pushes MPG
Mr. Market gets it wrong again
Let me take a moment to explain why oil prices reflecting actual market conditions might be important to us. Regardless of whether we are in the Peak Oil Era — we probably are — in 2009, we would like to know at all times what the relative abundance of the Elixir of Life (with respect to demand for it) for Industrial Civilizations is.
Humanity at a crossroads
The evidence is gaining increasing clarity: We’ve reached a crossroads unlike any other in human history. One path leads to despair for Homo industrialis. The other leads to extinction, for Homo sapiens and the millions of species we are taking with us into the abyss. I’ll take door number one.
ODAC Newsletter – May 22
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
The myth of efficiency
What makes efficiency? Is it clever management? The “productivity” of human resources? Economies of scale? Centralization? Better information and computer systems? The competition of markets? Business people give credit to these innovations, and all of these changes may contribute incrementally to the cheapness of our food, but these are just icing on the cake. The real underpinning of what we think of as efficiency is cheap energy – especially cheap oil.
