Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
-Debate about peak oil is misleading
-Saudi provides realistic outlook on energy future
-OAPEC to spend $133 bn on boosting refinery output
-Abu Dhabi to invest $10 bn on green projects
-UNDP Arab Human Development Report 2009
-Shifting Alliances Define Energy Debate
-British energy firm in the dock over Amazon project
-Arizona firm in deal to spread sun power to China
-Oil Spin
-Oil still has us over a barrel
-Maribynong Peak Oil Contingency Plan
Within the span of a couple generations, we abandoned a durable, finely textured, life-affirming set of living arrangements characterized by self-sufficient family farms intermixed with small towns that provided commerce, services, and culture. Worse yet, we traded that model for a coarse-scaled arrangement wholly dependent on ready access to cheap fossil fuels.
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Production and prices
-New discoveries
-Nationalism
-Briefs
A weekly update from a UK perspective.
Last week Michael Lynch and Daniel Yergin pummeled the concept of peak oil in two mainstream media outlets. Lynch’s feisty but nearly fact-free op-ed for the New York Times and Yergin’s more scholarly reflection in Foreign Policy whipped up further discussion in the blogosphere. Although the majority of on-line responses to Lynch’s piece were negative, peak oil advocates were put on the defensive.
-World faces hi-tech crunch as China eyes ban on rare metal exports
-Ukraine, Russia PMs resolve gas dispute: Tymoshenko
-As hybrid cars gobble rare metals, shortage looms
-Iranian Media: Iran Ready to Negotiate
-Slow Boat to Rare Earth
-Peak Water
-Iowa’s future shouldn’t depend on fossil fuels
-Man-made eruptions – ‘Plan B’ in the battle for the planet
-We’re pumping out CO2 to the point of no return. It’s time to alter course
-Climate Camp set up in the footsteps of the Peasants’ Revolt
-BP hails ‘giant’ oil find
-Giant Indian oil field comes on stream
-Canada’s Oil Sands – Part 2
For decades the “Holy Grail” of the New Energy Economy has been to find ways to store wind and solar energy. The answers are here, and they are much more plain and simple than we thought. Like Indiana Jones in his Last Crusade, we need to see the Grail that is right before our eyes. The means to enable solar and wind energy to serve as our primary energy supplies are at hand.
-Michael C. Lynch and “the false threat of disappearing oil.”
-The New York Times on Peak Oil – Don’t Worry, Be Happy
-Oil: the Long Goodbye
-150 Years of Plenitude: The Story of Oil
