Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
– Review: A Preliminary Investigation of Energy Return on Energy Investment for Global Oil and Gas Production
– Exclusive Warning: Oil supplies are running out fast
– Another crunch is coming – but will the world act?
Learn about the planning behind the 2009 conference of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas.
A weekly update from a UK perspective.
-‘$20 Per Gallon’ by Christopher Steiner
-Oil is Peaking But Not Because of Speculation
-Are We Headed for Another Oil Shock?
If you have read my book “Detensive Nation”, you know I am concerned about the damage we humans are doing to our environment. Our intensive consumption of energy, arable land, fresh water, and minerals is not sustainable. That means we humans will be forced to adopt a detensive Cultural EcoSystem. In order to ease the pain of this transition, we need a positive, proactive, and intellectually honest political system.
– Oil Customers Will Go Away Before Oil Does
– How reasonable are oil production scenarios from public agencies?
– FACTBOX-Oil production cost estimates by country
– Greenpeace study finds oil companies may be doomed
A weekly roundup of Peak oil news, including:
-Production and prices
-an alternative view
-China’s shopping spree
-Briefs
Ray Leonard was selected last week to serve as CEO of Hyperdynamics Corp., a Houston-based and AMEX-listed oil and gas company with exploration assets in West Africa…A number of international organizations and elite audiences in Washington D.C. have heard his talks and have taken them seriously. Steve Andrews reached him last week and popped several quick questions.
– Matthias Reinig on Desertec Industrial Initiative
– Desertec Solar Project Shows That Green Investors Can’t Afford to be Too Green If They Want to Make $$
– European power from the desert is a Fata Morgana
– Stewart Taggart at Desertec-Australia on clean power from deserts worldwide
There is a well-known story about how to boil a frog. If you try to throw a frog into a pot already boiling, he’ll jump out. However, put a frog into a pot and slowly raise the temperature – and you get frog legs for dinner.
China’s Wide Reach in Africa
The new scramble for Africa
Congo-Kinshasa: Firms Fuelling ‘Conflict Minerals’ Violence, Report Says
