Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Hurricane Dean to make landfall in Mexico today: Cantarell now in Dean’s sights
Hurricane’s impact on oil infrastructure
Open letter to Duncan Clarke (PO skeptic)
High oil prices and the new dirty energy
Peak Oil Digest from Cornwall
The unfolding financial turmoil may eventually be seen as a historic event. Another turning point, the worldwide peak in oil production, is a key player in this unfolding drama, although its role goes unnoticed by most in the audience.
If crude oil is becoming scarce, the first reaction often is, “where can we find more of it?”
Sicko‘s success represents a modern day muckraking triumph. Yet it is critical to examine the shortcomings of Moore’s views of health care reform in the context of energy, ecology and sustainability.
Recent reports from pillars of the Big- Oil/wealthy-nation establishment suggest that the basic logic of peak-oil theory is on the mark and hard times are ahead when it comes to global oil-and-gas sufficiency.
In a widely viewed You Tube clip, taken from a C-Span interview conducted in 1994, Dick Cheney argues persuasively that the United States was right not to topple Saddam Hussein during the first Gulf War.
Kazakhstan’s Kashagan costs blowout
Sacked Iran minister warns of energy ‘catastrophe’
Esso reckons 20 more years of oil left in Bass Strait
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Iraq
– Rumblings from Canada
– Energy Briefs
Research findings give considerable face validity to criticisms by some commentators (e.g. American Association of Petroleum Geologists) that EIA forecasts present a consistently “optimistic” view of NG – e.g. underestimating price and overestimating supply.
Swiss scientists say politicians and the public should have a greater awareness of “peak oil” – the moment when the world’s maximum crude oil output is reached. “It’s as if we planned to climb the Matterhorn to get to the summit at midnight, leaving it much too late to descend.”
Failure of complex systems comes about not because the systems fail to accomplish their nominal purpose, but as a result of unintended consequences of the interactions of the component parts.
Coal may be left under Sydney’s water
Bury CO2 in sea bed off Sydney
Bass Strait gas storage plan may go cold
