Solutions and sustainability – Sept 8
Prof. Keith Barnham on solar and nuclear
Relaunching Energize America; launching Energize Europe
Where’s your ecovillage as meltdown approaches?
New Carpool Website supports Oil Depletion Protocol
Fossil Fuels
A Road Map to U.S. Decarbonization
Today, 85% of the United States’ energy mix comes from carbon-rich fossil fuels: oil, natural gas, and coal. ..We propose to switch our economy slowly (over 30 to 50 or more years) to nonfossil energy sources by using proven technologies and available, expandable distribution systems. (Excerpts.)
The peak oil crisis: the word begins to spread
Last week Bloomberg, “the leading global provider of data, news and analytics,” published a balanced, carefully researched, 4,200 word article on peak oil. For those of us who follow the peak oil story, this was an event of earth shaking proportions.
About the Oil Depletion Protocol
The next few years may offer humankind its last, best opportunity to avert resource wars, terrorism, and economic collapse as it enters the second half of the Age of Oil. If we grasp that opportunity and succeed, we could set a precedent for cooperative, peaceful approaches to all of the resource problems we are likely to encounter during the coming century. The choice we face is between competition and conflict on one hand, and voluntary moderation and mutual assistance on the other. The first steps toward the latter can be readily taken by endorsing and adopting this simple agreement.
Briefing for the Descent
Arguments for a survivalist response to Peak Oil are becoming common, but depend on improbable scenarios of sudden collapse. In the face of the century or more of decline that forms the most likely future for the industrial world, other responses — outlined in this essay — offer a more realistic plan for dealing with the transition to a deindustrial world.
Hit the Road Jack
There’s no arguing the fact that the successful test results from Chevron’s newest golden boy in the Gulf of Mexico, lightly called Jack, are truly noteworthy. But we need to put some things into perspective before falling head over heels in love.
Discovery – Sept 6
Chevron bullish on deep GOM discovery
BG finds more gas in North Sea
Other Energy – Sept 6
Russian agency sues to stop Shell on Sakhalin
Cost blowout hits Woodside LNG
Ghana: Power Crisis Worries Gold Miners
Turkey offers $130bn in energy investments
Solutions and Sustainability – Sept 6
Car-Sharing Merges Into the Mainstream
Island to vote on energy independance plan
WA Minister alludes to oil peak in broadside on PM
Relocalize.net invite
Clarification of the Huge Chevron Gulf Oil Discovery
The September 5th announcement by Chevron and Devon and Statoil of the huge Gulf of Mexico discovery should be clarified. The announcement claims that the discovery could increase US proven reserves of oil by as much as 50%. However, the total amounts are highly speculative.
Commentary: Underestimating Demand, Overestimating Supply
The world of oil has turned out very different from what the experts at EIA, IEA, CERA, BP, EXXON and others all thought.
Remember, remember the 5th of September, 2000
How rising fuel prices in the year 2000 sparked the protest of British citizens and brought the entire nation to a halt by stopping the flow of petroleum products for nine days.
