Old King Coal
What’s the problem with coal and what actions can you take?
Fossil Fuels
Climate, politics & money – Apr 19
•The Great Unmentionable •Why can’t we quit fossil fuels? •The Fossil Fuel Resistance •Jeremy Grantham, environmental philanthropist: ‘We’re trying to buy time for the world to wake up’ •Clean energy progress too slow to limit global warming – report •Meet an Orion Book Award Finalist: Flight Behavior
There’s Only One Real Option for Averting Economic and Ecological Ruin — So Why Aren’t We Talking About It?
Energy conservation is our best strategy for pre-adapting to an inevitably energy-constrained future. And it may be our only real option for averting economic, social, and ecological ruin.
Current U.S. energy policy: Risk management that is worse than ever
Current U.S. energy policy is, in fact, a hodgepodge of disconnected policies designed for specific constituencies with no coherent goal. What never gets asked and answered definitively in the policy debate is this: What should our ultimate goal be and when should we aim to achieve it?
No place sacred: ENERGY (review)
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. With that in mind, the 195 color, mostly full page — often double page — photographs in the Post Carbon Institute’s latest book, ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth, speaks volumes beyond its gigantic sized pages about the energy and environmental predicament humanity is immersed in today.
Our dependence on oil puts a glass ceiling on economic recovery
The era of cheap oil is rapidly coming to an end, ushering in ‘economic peak oil’ – the point at which the cost of incremental supply exceeds the price economies can pay without significantly disrupting economic activity at a given point in time.
Energy – Nov 7
•Big Coal in big trouble as coal production costs rise •Obama, Romney avoid hard truths about energy •Japan kicks off winter energy-saving campaign •Full Text: China’s Energy Policy 2012
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Superstorm
Somewhere in the midst of watching the Weather Channel’s reporting on the approach of Superstorm Sandy, I was struck by the lack of meteorologists saying anything about what was behind the highly unusual phenomenon that was unfolding.
Shale gas – Oct 23
*The murky future of U.S. shale gas
*After the Boom in Natural Gas
*US natural gas boom claims first nuclear plant
*Report sees economic boost from unconventional oil and gas
*US fracking sites impact health – report
*UK public favours wind turbines over shale gas wells, poll finds
Gas Bubble Leaking, About to Burst
No, shale gas won’t entirely go away anytime soon. But expectations of continuing low prices are about to be dashed. And notions that the U.S. will become a major gas exporter, or that we will convert millions of cars and trucks to run on gas, now ring hollow.
Peak oil notes – Oct 18
A midweek roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Developments this week
The cost of oil – Oct 16
-How To Destroy Rivers Communities Softly, Softly
-Nigeria oil spills: Shell rejects liability claim
-Top Kill [Afternoon Drama]
-Invasion of Iraq causes epidemic of birth defects
-Ecuador Oil Pollution Case Only Grows Murkier
-Richmond Refinery Fire Unites Communities Divided
