Coal – Jan 23
Coal is no longer on front burner
James Hansen: The need for an international moratorium on coal power
China’s coal
Life cycle comparison of coal and natural gas
Fossil Fuels
Peak everything economics, or, what do you call this mess?
If you’re interested in finding shelter during the storm, get thee to the productive side of the economy. Grow something, or learn to make or repair something useful.
Peak oil – Jan 22
The fallacy of reversibility: why peak oil actually helps industrial agriculture
OPEC Secretary-General : ‘International oil companies are the real dinosaurs’
Not “peak oil” but “trough oil”!
Review: Shell Game by Steve Alten
“How to Boil a Frog” on peak oil
CERA’s depletion study: the “good news” about running up the down escalator
There’s more spin on this report than there is kudzu in Georgia. …Your authors here, Udall and Andrews, on behalf of ASPO-USA, are willing to wager CERA $10,000 that petroleum liquids capacity won’t climb to 112 million barrels a day by 2017.
The evil twins
Discussion of global warming seldom makes any connection between the ecology of temperature change and pending fuel shortages. This is a really bad error.
Energy industry – Jan 21
Prospecting for gas and oil in Lake Geneva
Panel: state of the energy industry
Oilsands producers get failing grade on environment
Coal industry plugs into the campaign
The coal truth on candidates
Peak oil – Jan 21
Wall St. Journal on CERA report
The construction site called Saudi Arabia
Shell exec on oil demand, climate and the energy ladder
CERA’s silly season
Bush’s allusion to peak oil
Tough sledding on other side of peak oil
EU energy chief warns about ‘peak oil’
Peak Oil Review – January 21st, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Peak Oil — Pro and Con
– Kashagan
– Food versus Fuel Again
– Energy Briefs
How the coming home heating crisis could threaten the grid
What will people who rely on natural gas for home heating–and that includes a huge number of people in the United States–do when the natural gas crisis hits? They might well turn to electricity in a big way.
Annals of the rising Lilliputians
The center of gravity of power is shifting relentlessly from the West. The most successful cars are made in Japan. The power of the purse is shifting to less profligate countries like Singapore, and petro-powers like Kuwait. Manufacturing has gone to China. Energy is in the hands of Saudi Arabia, Russia and others.
Peak oil: Why is it so difficult to explain/understand?
Peak Oil is about RATE. And RATE is dependent on the SIZE, AGE and QUALITY of the RESERVES.
Peak oil and coal – Jan 18
CERA v. peak oil
World not running out of oil, say experts
Bush acknowledges peak oil
The coal question revisited
Climate change (and PO) force car manufacturing rethink
