Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Search for new oil sources leads to processed coal / Germany gives coal opt out under CO2 emission plan /
Does Air Force have a coal-powered plane in its future? / Old king coal to reign (“Best hope for energy security”) /
Coal’s false promise to America
Farming must change to aid environment / Finnish EU Presidency wants ‘new generation’ of environmental policy / 12% of bird species to be in peril by 2100 / Buried greenhouse gases may escape: scientists /
Journalist Ross Gelbspan on global warming
I’ll wait for his article on global warming to make too rash a conclusion, but this article is not reassuring that we’re ever going to get our elites to take energy issues seriously.
Last week, the commission on oil dependency, tasked with charting Sweden’s way out of dependency, issued its report. Disappointingly, the report fails to address the heart of the issue – dependency and management of risk for societal collapse – instead it chooses to concentrate on technical solutions for energy supply.
Urban location, housing debt and oil vulnerability in the Australian City / How to define ‘energy security’? / ASPO Newsletter for July / National Education Association alerted to peak oil
Cautionary tales amid the latest coal revival / Gas companies on ‘treadmill’ of demand / Kuwaiti experts predict steady rise in oil prices / Washington Post:
the false hope of biofuels / Malaysia suspends biodiesel effort / Helping Air Force blue turn green
Audio: Peak Oil and the Environment in Washington /
Kunstler and Darley: The Post-Carbon Society – An Overview /
U.S. Army War College: Preemptive Energy Security: An Aggressive Approach to Meeting America’s Requirements /
La Plata County: Methane production past its peak
I can’t help but wonder if people only loved coal as I do–that is, enough to leave it alone as it so clearly wants us to do–how different the world would be, how different our future would look.
‘The real enemy is not peak oil, it’s resource nationalism’ (Not) / Greenhouse gases, ‘peak oil’ ruled out of order on offshore drilling legislation / Kunstler interviews / Gore on peak oil and climate change
Last week the US Government released the International Energy Outlook 2006 (IEO).
Unfortunately, however, from a peak-oil-is-imminent perspective, one is forced to say that many of this report’s projections are so far from reality that the EIA must be talking about some other world.
“The Smoky City” was a major industrial center of the United States in the 20th century. During World War II, Pittsburgh produced more steel than all of Germany. The steel industry centered on the Three Rivers put Pittsburgh on the map, but the Bessemer process that made steel production economical also required a great deal of coal.
China’s crude oil import up 20.5 percent in May /
Iran ideological army takes on energy contracts /
Nigerian oil dispute flares into full-scale revolt /
GAO: Issues Related to Potential Reductions in Venezuelan Oil Production
