Prices & supplies – Apr 8
Forecasting Coal Production Until 2100
In search of Lithium
The Future of Oil Prices
Fossil Fuels
The Green Power Illusion
America is finally showing leadership on climate change. But unfortunately the Obama Administration and the majority of US climate change activists haven’t learned very important lessons from the peak oil debate and look to be leading the world down an illusory path.
Economics – Apr 7
Theory of oil-shock recession
Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing
Chris Cook: Banking on Energy
Oil As Money and the Decline of Energy Earnings
Nabucco pipeline in the cobweb of Byzantine energy politics
Nabucco’s odds appear to be going downhill as confusion over the destiny of Eurasian gas intensifies. Lack of a credible pan-European energy policy, combined with prospects of improvement in Western relations with Iran, makes the future of regional pipeline projects uncertain.
United States – Apr 7
Kunstler: Strange Days
Americans Support Wide Array of Proposed Energy Policies, but Not Yet Ready to Make Tradeoffs
LNG promoters should forget about California
A conversation with Gail-The-Actuary
“The idea of scaling back is a real difficulty for these growth-based medical institutions… and how do you deal with a bigger and bigger uninsured population? How do you provide preventive care [and] some level of basic care” in a post-peak oil world? These are, in my view, the kinds of questions reformers should be asking.”
Peak Oil Review – Apr 6
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Production and prices
-The Clean Energy & Security Act
-Cuba
-Detroit
-Briefs
Interview with Matt Simmons, Part 1
“My thinking: do your analysis first; second, check it again; third, don’t rely on a third party; then, if that’s what you conclude, go ahead and speak out with the courage of your convictions.”
Peak oil – April 5
Bloomington Peak Oil Task Force
Changing of the guard in the Queensland Government (Andrew McNamara out)
Interview with chair of Canada’s “junior oil” association – a peak oiler
Nate Lewis: Where in the world will our energy come from?
U.S. & energy – April 5
America’s oil bust
Wind turbines could more than meet U.S. electricity needs, report says
New climate bill proof of misplaced priorities
TOD’s Gail Tverberg on the climate bill
Closing the Straits of Hormuz and the effects on oil prices
What if it was the US that closed the Straits of Hormuz? What would the world think if the US directly precipitated the end of ship traffic in the Straits, or at least severe restrictions on transit and passage? Well, we almost found out last Friday, March 20.
ODAC Newsletter – 3 Apr
A weekly review from a UK perspective
