Energy in the U.S. elections
Energy fictions (NYT on Obama’s energy transformations)
Experts say candidates miss the boat on energy crunch (peak oil)
Drilling for oil – behind the polls
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil – Aug 12
“Energy Resources and Our Future” – Speech by Admiral Hyman Rickover in 1957
The future is now: the end of cheap oil
Peak oil, meet peak bandwidth
Coal – Aug 12
Arthur Scargill: Coal isn’t the climate enemy, Mr Monbiot. It’s the solution
Monbiot: Old King Coal is a brave old soul, but he is talking utter nonsense
Expert: Replace old inefficient coal power plants
What future for coal in South Africa?
Peak Oil Review – August 11
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The BTC pipeline
– Oil and the US elections
– Energy Briefs
Oil from the OCS moratoria areas – a gusher? or too little, too late?
Even an optimistic projection shows only a small shoulder in the US oil production around 2025. Is this enough to scare the oil speculators and keep oil prices down?
The offshore drilling mirage
Spurred on by Senator McCain’s July 28 promise that off shore oil “could be exploited in a matter of months”, the clamor to start poking more expensive holes in the ocean floor has reached a crescendo.
Peak oil – Aug 10
David Strahan: Have we reached the end of the road for oil?
Rising need of crude in energy rich nations
Heinberg on Al Jazeera TV
CIBC’s Ben Tal sees $200 oil
Energy: It’s still cheap (Matt Simmons. interview)
Drill time in America – Aug 10
New House bill combines drilling with tax extensions for renewables
Drill, drill, drill is working
Paul Krugman: Know-nothing politics
Kunstler: Drill drill drill !!! (or maybe not)
Rising gasoline costs – an animation
Does queueing theory explain oil’s wild price swings?
Price movements in the short run contain very little information of importance for long-term planning. To pay too close attention to every decline in the oil price would be the equivalent of halting construction on one’s home every time the sun comes out believing that a new era of permanent sunshine and balmy weather obviates the need for shelter.
Book Review: Climate Code Red- the Case for Emergency Action
Book review Climate Code Red – Climate Code Red, by David Spratt and Philip Sutton, Scribe Publications 2008
Russia-Georgia conflict
Georgia and Russia nearing all-out war
Georgia: oil, neocons, cold war and our credibility
Energy pipeline that supplies West threatened by war Georgia conflict
A lesson on the United States’ need for Russia
Peak oil & metals – Aug 8
Surviving the Apocalypse, on two wheels (Canadian thief hoards 2800 bikes)
Peak oil adds fuel to Swiss energy debate
Why the blackout on peak oil?
Simply not enough oil and gas to go around
‘Peak metal’ problems loom, warns scientist
