ASPO-USA conference, last day
Summaries of talks by Art Berman, Rick Munroe, Tad Paczek, Ken Zweibel, Ralph Nader, Anthony Perl, Dr. Charles Schlumberger, Sharon Astyk and Brian Czech.
Geopolitics & Military
Oil-producing countries – Oct 13
– Basra in southern Iraq has been transformed – thanks to oil
– Iraq has the oil stores, but does it have the know-how?
– Behind the coup in Ecuador
– Ecuador’s economy under Correa: 21st century socialism or the New-Extractivism? (Alberto Acosta interview)
Inconvenient truths – Oct 13
– After peak oil, peak steel?
– How air-conditioning is baking our world
– Planes Don’t Kill People – Plane Exhaust Does
– Western Lifestyles Plundering Tropics at Record Rate, WWF Report Shows
China’s pipelineistan “war”
For the moment, Beijing’s strategic priority has been to carefully develop a remarkably diverse set of energy-suppliers. If China has so far proven masterly in the way it has played its cards in its Pipelineistan “war”, the U.S. hand — bypass Russia, elbow out China, isolate Iran — may soon be called for what it is: a bluff.
ASPO-USA conference, first evening
TOD co-founder Summers blogs on talks on EROEI, military, economics and transportation.
National responses – Oct 10
– Green Party strong in Brazil
– Syriana: Yours to stream or download
– Look past China’s smog and noise and you can see greener action
The Billion Dollar-o-Gram 2009
This image arose out of frustration with media reporting of billion dollar amounts. That is, that they’re meaningless without context. But they’re continually reported as self-evident facts. 500 billion for this war. 50 billion for this pipeline. Literally mind-boggling amounts of money. So here we’ve scraped reported figures from The New York Times, The Guardian, and other news outlets and visualized them as a treemap (?). So you can see in one place figures that would otherwise be scattered across multiple news reports.
Peak oil & supplies – Oct 6
– Is Venezuela the Next Flashpoint for Oil?
– Iraq Is Back In The Game
– Jim Baldauf of ASPO-USA in “The Hill”: the end of oil as we know it
– Jeff Rubin: Depletion Is Economic, Not Just Geological, Concept
– Shale oil boom underlines importance of innovations on another fuel – oil shale
– LNG Trumped
Review of “The Impending World Energy Mess” by Robert Hirsch, Roger Bezdek and Robert Wendling
Five years ago Robert Hirsch headed the team that produced the first US government-sponsored report discussing the consequences of declining world oil production. The team which wrote the original “Hirsch” report is now out with a book that discusses the current state of the world energy situation and what we can expect in the decades ahead.
Peak oil & supplies – Oct 3
– German peak oil analyst on offshore oil drilling – costs and risks
– Verifying the Export Land Model – a different approach
– Venezuela elections: “Chávez really bought into the idea of peak oil”
Military reports leading the charge in peak oil debate
“Fueling the Future Force,” published September 27, is the third military consideration of a future of scarce oil published so far this year. It states that 77% of the US Department of Defense’s “massive energy needs” are met by petroleum – but “given projected supply and demand, we cannot assume that oil will remain affordable or that supplies will be available to the United States reliably three decades hence.” To remain as an effective fighting force, the entire US military must transition from oil over the coming 30 years.
Climate – Oct 1
– U.S. military prepares for the coming conflicts triggered by climate change
– Climate Change Crisis ‘Can Be Solved by Oil Companies’
– How global warming is aiding – and frustrating – archaeologists
