Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Peak oil is an issue for most developing countries only insofar as they are suffering even more now than they already were. This is one of the many reasons why there’s no ASPO-Uganda. It’s becoming long past peak for the poor, so let’s hope they can reorganize their local economies to replace something most of them never had much of to begin with — oil & gas products.
All societies on earth face a Catch 22. We need to use fossil fuels to extract and manufacture resources to allow a transition to a liquefied natural gas infrastructure. Then our societies will have to use the remaining natural gas reserves to exploit even more minerals and commodities to transition to electric infrastructure.
David Holmgren on peak oil, energy descent and permaculture (video)
Online permaculture talks: “The Era of Post Carbon Transition”
Rebuttal to many of the common arguments against peak oil. Includes: why this is not like 1970s, impact of higher prices, improved technology, Canadian oil sands, oil shale, Jack 2 field, Acrtic National Wild Life Reserve, and other questions.
David Blume’s Alcohol Can Be A Gas book
LS9 promises ‘renewable petroleum’
Poison plant could help to cure the planet
The ethanol effect
Gail the Actuary: Peak oil – what’s ahead?
What would you pay for a barrel of oil? $100? $200?
Sir David King’s view on peak oil
TOD Canada on the financial crisis
CO2 capture and storage: the economic costs
Earth too warm? Bury the CO2
Esso reckons 20 more years of oil left in Bass Strait (Australia)- bad news for sequestration
Diesel-driven bee slums and impotent turkeys:
the case for resilience
Jeff Vail: Losing our balance?
Kunstler: Vanishing point
I work for a company that is a member of the National Petroleum Council (NPC), but I am not a big hairy monster who dips his food in crude oil before devouring it. Similarly, I do not believe that the NPC and its affiliate members are conspiring to cover up a scenario that paints a dire end time for the world.
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective.
Gulf royalties targeted again
Coal’s doubters block new wave of power plants
To dismay of power utilities, coal emissions are under fire
The IEA Medium Term Report is refreshingly open and balanced in its approach. It is a further nail in the coffin for irresponsibly optimistic future oil production scenarios.
