Oil & nuclear – July 28
Where will big oil’s big profits go? / Big Oil: booming profits, climbing costs /
Shell shocked / European heat wave shows limits of nuclear energy
Fossil Fuels
Oil Sands: Burning Energy to Produce It
Everything about the Alberta oil sands development is impossibly big. Monster-sized trucks and giant excavators are carving up hundreds of square kilometres of land, thousands of kilometres of pipelines and roads have been laid, and millions of litres of water are being super-heated to process millions of tonnes of rock and sand.
Kuwait considers Oil Depletion Protocol?
Ten members of the Kuwaiti National Assembly last week tabled a motion to link Kuwait’s crude oil production with its oil reserve. The motion bears some resemblance to the Oil Depletion Protocol developed by Colin Campbell.
The guns of August (redux)
The best students of peak oil currently put the peak somewhere between last December and 1,500 days hence. Moreover, Hezbollah vs. Israel has an excellent potential to spin out of control resulting at best in a significant reduction in Middle East oil exports.
Bakhtiari addresses the Australian Senate Committee
“Dr Bakhtiari dishes it out to the Australian senators in fine style,” writes contributer CS.
Solutions & sustainability – July 25
Eco-party celebrates art of simple living /
The Un-Coal /
Go green, Miliband tells UK supermarket bosses /
Green Wonders of the World (building) /
Is buying local always best? /
Principled eaters gather at grill
Peak oil – July 25
Harper’s Magazine covers peak oil movement /
Peak Oil and Michigan’s Energy Future /
Why It’s Hard to Debate a Cornucopian /
Jay Hanson and DieOff.org /
Power for the people: what sort of energy? /
How Cuba survived its oil shock /
Canada: People may have to pick eating over heating
Oceans and climate – July 25
Institute of Science in Society ocean series:
Oceans in Distress /
Oceans and Global Warming /
Oceans: Carbon Sink or Source? /
Acid Oceans /
Abrupt Plankton Shifts /
Global Warming and Plankton /
Plus: Undersea gas could speed global warming – study /
Warmer waters disrupt Pacific food chain
Explosive Oil Consumption Growth in the Top Oil Exporting States
The top 14 oil exporting states experienced high economic growth in 2005 and the first half of 2006, leading to high domestic consumption of oil. The rates of increase in oil consumption are in the high single digits or low double digits in all top exporting countries except Norway.
Will Mexico Soon Be Tapped Out?
A rapid demise of Cantarell, the country’s chief oil field, and the world’s second-largest oil complex, could pose a serious economic threat.
Saudi Arabia’s Oil a Huge Question
For three decades, it has been Saudi Arabian oil that poured into the market to dampen rapidly rising oil prices and Saudi cutbacks that pushed prices back up when they were abnormally low. Not anymore.
Climate – July 22
Undersea gas could speed global warming – study / NASA’s goals delete mention of home planet / Researchers link wildfires, climate change / Global warming, not just heat wave
