Renewables & efficiency – Jan 22
-Do soot emissions mean that wood heating causes global warming?
-Bavarian prince hits resistance over plans for giant solar park
-Companies team up with Abu Dhabi over green jet fuel
-Hybrid Cars Won’t Save Much Oil
Industry
Peak oil notes – Jan 21
A midweek roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-China clamps down
Tar sands quagmire – Jan 21
-Conoco, Total to expand oil sands project
-Shell faces shareholder revolt over Canadian tar sands project
-Alberta to study pace of oil sands growth
What Does “Peak Oil” Mean to You?
The “Don’t Fear the 2010s” article written by Nick Gillespie of the Wall Street Journal featured a section on Peak Oil and, after reading it, I found myself uttering the famous words of Homer Simpson: “Doh.” The article claims that “something always gets in the way” of peak oil, and since no clear peak has occured globally, Peak Oil is and will remain unimportant.
India/Pakistan: Fog gets in your eyes – Jan 20
-Dense fog in Delhi brings travel chaos
-Blame air pollution for Capital’s blanket of fog
-Airport fog on track
-Fog in Lahore — causes and impact
The Peak Oil Crisis: 2010 – An Annus Horribilis
For Queen Elizabeth, 1992, the year Windsor Palace caught on fire and several of her kids separated, was an annus horribilis, for the rest of us the coming year may well turn out to be horrible too. While our leaders and the media continue to tell us that we have turned an economic corner and that all will be well soon, the underlying data, for those willing to look, tell a far different story.
McMoRan Davy Jones Gas Discovery
Recent discoveries of oil and gas in the deep-water offshore region of the Gulf of Mexico may have recoverable resources of up to 15 billion barrels of oil equivalent.
Peak oil, prices, and supplies – Jan 19
-Oil and gas exploration falls to lowest level in five years
-World Future Energy Summit-Christophe de Margerie: Big Oil’s Straight Talker
-Have we reached peak oil?
-Oil Shortages to Reappear in 2011, Goldman Sachs Says
Peak oil review – Jan 18
A weekdly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-Record Asian demand
-The Alberta oil sands
-Quote of the week
-Briefs
The Peak Oil Crisis: Gasoline Prices Revisited
It has been 18 months since we all worried very much about high oil prices. Starting in July 2008 gasoline prices took an historic plunge dropping from a U.S. average high of $4.11 a gallon all the way down to $1.70 in January 2009.
Peak oil notes – Jan 14
A midweek roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-China’s Economy
The costs of “green power” – Jan 13
-Earth-Friendly Elements, Mined Destructively
-Loans to Boost Nuclear Industry Seen Coming Soon
-Wood Heating and Energy Literacy
