Peak oil – Sept 12
Jeffrey J. Brown on The Reality Report
The end of oil, the start of tasty food (Julian Darley)
The amazing power of King Hubbert (…?)
TOD: This week in petroleum
Canada/financial energy round-up
ODAC News
Fossil Fuels
Oil industry – Sept 12
OPEC to lift oil output modestly
What’s behind OPEC’s production hike?
Oil execs: Beware the new world energy order
Oil giant agrees to fight greenhouse gases
Greenhouse gas is Big Oil boon
For oil companies, the good old (bad old) days are over
Big Oil talks up carbon capture, but does little
Peak oil – Sept 10
Zac Goldsmith: ‘Peak oil informs everything’
Leftist discussion of Peak Everything
Atlantic: The world’s most essential oil field may be in decline
Matt Simmons series
TOD community update
ODAC News
Using the media – Sept 10
Oil addiction is ugly (DIY video)
Get your green on in Energyville (game from Chevron)
Kunstler: The dis-information society
United Kingdom – Sept 10
Conservatives have opportunity to introduce a green agenda
Turn off the TV and join the Tory green revolution
Kunstler gets a letter from an employee in the British oil industry
New nuclear row as green groups pull out
Pipeline explosions – Sept 10
Rebels blow up pipelines in Mexico, disrupting service
Mexico: A nation-state dissolves? (Jeff Vail)
Tribes sabotage Kirkuk pipelines
Planning for the mitigation of maximum world oil production
A framework is needed for planning the mitigation of oil shortages created by world oil production reaching a maximum and going into decline. Some argue that normal market evolution will be adequate to avoid shortages. We assume that will not be the case.
Peak helium?
Helium shortage hampers research and industry
Balloon sellers find helium in short supply
TODers mull peak helium
Review: Renewable energy cannot sustain a consumer society
Renewable sources of energy cannot come anywhere near to replacing fossil fuels in sufficient quantity to keep running the current globalised, capitalist industrial economy, according to Ted Trainer’s new book.
Low grain harvest, rising food prices and China’s ethanol plan
China is a case study in which rising food prices and natural disasters influence biofuel production, especially ethanol, leading to new regulations for gasoline exports.
Peak oil crisis: minimum operating levels redux
Sometime in the next few months, some event is likely to set off a spike in gasoline prices. Be it a hurricane, terrorist attack, adverse geopolitical crisis or some credit crisis development, the realization will dawn that we are extremely short of gasoline and have little hope of remedying the situation over the short term.
PetroProzac, Dasani-style
Peak oil is usually thought of as a liquid fuels crisis, but all of the other uses mankind has found for hydrocarbons should not be left out of the equation. As with gasoline, we consume plastic water bottles as if there were no tomorrow.
