Imagining peak oil – June 30
LA Times: Envisioning a world of $200-a-barrel oil
The challenges of peak oil
Tammemagi: Civilization’s golden era is teetering on collapse
Oil disquiet on the Western front
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil strategies – June 30
Crash course- preparing for peak oil (book review)
Fixing peak oil is easy
Retreat location and avoiding the golden horde
Nuclear & sequestration – June 30
ITER costs give partners pause (fusion pricetag jumps)
Nuclear cost estimates may put end to renaissance
Carbon sequestration: bury the idea, not the CO2
Review: Crash Course: Preparing for Peak Oil by Zachary Nowak
We need to be prepared for the worst when it comes to peak oil, insists Zachary Nowak.
Geopolitics – June 30
Report: U.S. ‘preparing the battlefield’ in Iran
Israel has a year to stop Iran bomb, warns ex-spy
Dubai: spots on the sun
Michael Meacher: The era of oil wars
Bill Moyers: It was oil, all along (in Iraq)
Are they really oil wars?
Peak Oil Review — June 30, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Forecasts
– Shortages
– Energy Briefs
World oil reserves and future production
Ray Leonard, Vice-President-Eurasia with Kuwait Energy Company, wrote in a 2001 paper: “By 2010, [oil] production … will start to rapidly decline. This will conflict with the steadily increasing demand for oil. The collision of these two trends will lead to shortages and increased prices, providing a strong incentive to shift to alternative fuel resources…Due to unequal distribution through the world of oil and gas supply and consumption, [the upcoming] transition will result in significant shifts in global power and wealth.”
Energy policies – June 30
Canada: Energy supplants environment as top concern
Oilsands vacation site tempts visitors with ‘toxic lakes’
Korea: Oil prices prompt crisis response
Germany has world’s biggest cut in energy use in 2007
Germany approves ambitious CO2 reduction measures
Book Review: “Reinventing Collapse”
Written with the satirical wit of modern Voltaire, Orlov goes where few other peak oil writers have dared to go, and his sardonic Russian humor allows a stark look at American prospects through the eyes of someone who has witnessed collapse first hand.
Prices & speculation – June 30
Prices won’t be falling anytime soon
Paul Krugman: Confusions about speculation
The speculation explanation: framing the energy crisis
Smell the roses – suicidal tendencies
Why does it seem that every time the price of gas goes up, motorists respond by driving faster? Is it some misguided belief that if they reach their destination quicker, they will use less gas?
Creating bountiful yards with organic edible landscaping
In a world where fertile soil is an endangered resource, millions of acres of our nation’s best agricultural soil are covered with ornamental shrubs and lawns. Soil can be brought into production for agriculture only at great economic and environmental cost. Why do we allow so much of what we have to remain unproductive?
