Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Gazprom’s looming crisis /
NATO and energy security /
Calif. governor disappoints: Go slow in fight on warming /
IMF: high oil prices are worsening global trade imbalances /
Tame oil’s wild price ride with a tax /
Oil & commodities at record highs – but the bears are fighting back /
War fears and the price of oil
North America – the energy picture II (govt study) /
Coal converts /
Clinton calls biofuels key to creating jobs /
Europe urged to curb demand for oil and gas /
It’s still about energy (oil to go up) /
Ready for $262 a barrel oil? (Soros) /
Gas prices climb as summer driving season nears
WCCO scoops networks on energy coverage / Pat Robertson’s CBN on peak oil / On production rates and refinery capacity /
Saudi Aramco boosts drilling efforts to offset declining fields (8% gross declines) /
Peak oil: the inflationary case /
Laherrère: When will oil production decline significantly?
Where to start? The answer to this one is easy. Governments at all levels must start planning, planning, planning for what clearly is to come — be it in five months or five years.
Introduction to ERoEI.
Australian sustainability conference /
Speculators pile into oil /
Geological peak vs. logistical peak /
Stormy weather (investment bank report)
Global warming threatens extinctions /
Lyin’ tamer (“Ask Umbra” on global warming) /
Climate change and the media, reality and the future /
Coal plants’ renaissance pits energy vs. pollution /
Schwarzenegger speech today could put California in forefront of climate change efforts
What is policy and strategy? What do these things look like? How does one formulate policy and strategy?
World ‘cannot meet oil demand’ /
OPEC warns high commodity prices may kill oil projects /
New ASPO-USA newsletter /
Toward a new vision for Hamilton (PO & cities) /
Energy philosophy for entropic times /
The Darwin Award for self-extinction goes to…
Christophe de Margerie of Total says the problem is not with reserves per se, but with the rates of production, and that we will never be able to reach the production levels predicted by the IEA (International Energy Agency) – or by the US Department of Energy, for that matter – simply because it is taking increasing efforts to get the oil out of the ground and that effort cannot be accomplished with today’s industrial resources.
WCCO-TV in Minnesota began broadcasting the first US news series that explicitly covers peak oil.
As the world moves ever closer to the time when vital, finite energy resources begin to decline, we need to know not how much oil, natural gas, coal or uranium is left; rather, we need to know how much usable energy is left in these resources.
