Peak oil review – Dec 15
A weekly review including:
– Prices and production
– The December 17th OPEC meeting
– Obama’s energy team
– Automobiles
– Briefs
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil, prices & supplies – Dec 13
Post Carbon Cities (peak oil for the American Planning Association)
Goldman Sachs predicts fall in oil prices to $45 a barrel
As China economy brakes, oil demand goes in reverse
Energy giants trim spending plans for 2009
Book Review: “The Long Descent”
John Michael Greer has written a fascinating and engaging, but also contradictory and perplexing account of how he sees the industrial age ending. His primary thesis is that collapse will not come as a sudden, abrupt End Of Days or Die Off scenario.
ODAC Newsletter – Dec 12
A weekly round-up from a UK perspective
Peak oil & demand – Dec 12
Leggett: At Poznan, no one is listening
IEA: Everyone Gets to Be Right
Oil Demand Down; 1st Time Since ’83
World oil demand to grow in 2009: IEA
United States – Dec 12
Energy secretary pick argues for new fuel sources
A Past President’s Advice to Obama: Act With Haste
Obama starts filling energy team
Hurdles, opportunities for ‘green’ stimulus
Browner to get the nod as Obama’s top energy and climate adviser
Christine Todd Whitman talks about greening the GOP and running the EPA
Economics – Dec 12
Stiglitz: Capitalist fools
Price Trends: Gasoline and CPI Are Twins
The attack of the Invisible Hand
Peak oil – Dec 11
Chris Nelder talks peak oil at the UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Dept.
End of oil could worsen warming, study finds
Oil and OPEC: Can the Cartel Possibly Cut Production Enough?
From left field – Dec 11
Bolivian president: Save the planet from capitalism
Liquefied Natural Gas and Fossil Capitalism
Where Are All The Socialists? Here, There and Everywhere
Peak Oil Notes – Dec 11
A midweek update on Peak Oil:
– The markets wait
– The struggle in OPEC
Deep thought – Dec 10
Energy, Climate Change, and Complexity in Healthcare
A Resilient Suburbia 4: Accounting for the Value of Decentralization
The Final Garnaut Report; A Radical Critique of its Energy Assumptions
Gleanings from Fatih Birol’s presentation of the WEO 2008 to the Council on Foreign Relations
Dr. Birol said, “If you read the report carefully, or run a word search on it, you will see that two words occur more frequently than any others. The first word is “oil”. The second word is “if”.” This got a rumbling chuckle from the audience. But no one publicly connected the dots that in order for the IEA’s supply projections to work out, ALL of the non-trivial IFs mentioned in his talk must materialize.
