Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The world demand for oil, while down by a million or two barrels per day seems to be holding up pretty well. If there is obvious conclusion from the $100+ drop in oil prices during the last six months, it is that world oil prices have become highly sensitive to over-supply and shortages.
A weekly update including:
– Prices and production
– A supply crunch?
Meet the doomsayers of our time
Buckminster Fuller’s Critical Path
Growth (some conservatives re-thinking growth)
Total’s de Margerie says oil output near peak
The Economics of Volatile Oil Prices
German “Peak Oil Briefing” now in English
Explorations – Environmental collapse (interview with Richard Heinberg)
We’ve now in a period of major human disorientation, but geology does not become disoriented on the human timescale. The impending peak oil problem may now be generally absent from the media and the public consciousness, but it has not gone away. We would do well to continue meaningful studies of peak oil production and mitigation during this period of peak oil quiet.
I like to think that Mr. Obama really does know what’s up — that “change” means we have to live a lot differently, not mount a campaign to sustain the unsustainable. I suspect that President Obama has learned over the last several weeks that the nation’s banking system and economy — indeed, the whole world’s — are in way worse shape than anyone imagined before January 20.
“After Peak Oil” conference at Johns Hopkins March 12
Crude Cassandra (Forbes covers Simmons)
Take Peak Oil seriously – it’ll be here much sooner than you think
Threat of gas price rise as reserves run dry
A weekly review including:
– Production and Prices
– French realism
– CERAWeek
– Detroit at the Crossroads
– Briefs
NYT: Is America Ready to Quit Coal?
James Hansen: Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them
Are we approaching peak coal?
A farm to teach the world to live without oil
Peak farm equipment?
New frontier in Colorado agriculture, HOPS
“The Great Squeeze” – film review
Interview: Matthew Stein, author of “When Technology Fails”
Homer-Dixon: Our Panarchic Future
Zero-Sum Game
Recovery Plan Captures the Energy Opportunity
Administration delays move toward more offshore drilling
Big Science Role Is Seen in Global Warming Cure
Clinton’s China Visit Opens Door on Climate Change
