The conservation imperative: energy limits to growth and the path to sustainability – part II

This content is no longer available. It was a pre-publication draft of a section of “Energy Limits to Growth,” a report that will be published in expanded form by Post Carbon Institute and International Forum on globalization in May.

Peak oil review – August 4

An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Iran
– Nigeria
– China
– In the Congress
– Energy Briefs

Other energy – June 30

Sierra Club sues Pentagon over wind-farm delays / CERA: another decade of rising upstream costs? /
Saudis not cutting oil output further – ambassador / Republican politician: A 100-mpg car? Let’s start the race / Conference on ocean energy in Bremerhaven, Oct. 23-24 / World could face choice between food and fuel / Mexico’s oil bonanza starts to dry up

A warm bath of energy — ocean thermal energy conversion

The Earth has an enormous natural solar collector – the tropical oceans. Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is a technology that can extract useful work from solar energy stored in the sea. It may be one of our best hopes for the environmentally clean, sustainable solutions we need to solve our global energy and environmental problems.