Energy industry – May 11
The Vulnerability of Energy Infrastructure to Environmental Change
“New” Nuclear Reactors, Same Old Story
Safety threat to planned nuclear power stations
Nuclear
More power to you – April 25
Book advocates Integral Fast Reactor (IFR)
Schlesinger and Hirsch: Getting real on wind and solar
California takes on King Corn
United States – Apr 23
U.S. Congress begins drive for climate change bill
U.S. May Never Need More Nuclear, Coal Plants, FERC Head Says
US Natural Gas Prices: “The Fix is Underway”
Food & agriculture – Apr 21
How much greenhouse gas comes from food?
Marijuana Advocates Point to Signs of Change
Just $6bn Will Save a Generation From Starvation, Says UN
ODAC Newsletter – 17 Apr
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
The IEA warns of shortages – “The next oil crisis is coming”
“We are concerned, that oil companies are reducing their investment levels. When demand returns a supply shortage could appear. We are even predicting that this shortage could occur in 2013.” Said Nobuo Tanaka, head of the IEA.
ODAC Newsletter – 3 Apr
A weekly review from a UK perspective
Closing the Straits of Hormuz and the effects on oil prices
What if it was the US that closed the Straits of Hormuz? What would the world think if the US directly precipitated the end of ship traffic in the Straits, or at least severe restrictions on transit and passage? Well, we almost found out last Friday, March 20.
Deep thought – Mar 31
Friedman: Mother Nature’s Dow
Size, Complexity, and Gluttony
The End of the Women’s Movement
Peak oil – March 29
Matt Simmons sees oil shock from credit crunch
Kurt Cobb: Is thorium an energy alchemist’s dream?
Energy pundits duke it out at Aspen Institute
Social critic James Kunstler offers a decidedly darker view
CBC on peak oil, Transition Town Totnes and Robert Hirsch
Jeff Rubin: Oil scarcity will spell end of globalisation
Galloping With Blinkers On
What do bailouts of failed financial corporations and funding for current fusion power initiatives have in common? If Arnold Toynbee is right, one of the keynotes of our collective failure to respond to the crisis of industrial civilization.
Energy limits to growth: integrating energy sources – part III
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.
