Peak oil notes -Nov 11
A mid-week roundup of peak oil news, including
-Developments this week
Oil
IEA acknowledges peak oil
The IEA’s position is summarized in the graph – conventional crude oil production has already peaked in 2006! Suddenly, the subject of impending peak has gone from not worthy of discussion to in the past already!
IEA World Energy Outlook 2010: questionable assumptions and major omissions
The WEO 2010 report just released by the International Energy Agency makes quite a number of assumptions that seem wrong, and omits important ideas. Here are a few that Oil Drum staff members have mentioned.
IEA World Energy Outlook 2010 Now Out; a Preliminary Look
The International Energy Agency issued its annual energy forecast today for 2010. At this point, we can only point to a few of the summary findings. One clear concern is that demand will be rising–especially from China and India. Another is that prices (in inflation-adjusted terms) will be rising. A third concern is that conventional oil production will no longer be able to rise.
Energy – Nov 10
– Why Is Obama Cuddling Up to Karl Rove and His Gas Drilling Friends?
– A Taxpayer-Funded Sucker Play for the 21st Century
– UC Davis study: Stock market expectations suggest that oil will run dry before substitutes roll out
Peak Oil – “The Debate is Over”
It’s been a long time coming, but the uber-significant Peak Oil issue has finally started to infiltrate the corridors of power. What they’ll do with this information remains to be seen…
Spin slips off oil production numbers – World Energy Outlook 2010 is a cry for help
In WEO 2010 the IEA presents facts that mean only one thing – the peak of oil production is imminent. By showing this data without announcing this obvious conclusion the IEA is making a cry for help to do what, for them, is politicly impossible. WEO 2010 is a cry for help to tell the truth about peak oil.
New videos to change the world – Nov 10
– “The Ultimate Roller Coaster Ride: A Brief History of Fossil Fuels” (Post Carbon Institute)
– “The Story of Electronics” (Annie Leonard)
– “Permaculture: The Growing Edge” (Starhawk and Donna Read)
– “The Economics of Happiness” (Helena Norberg-Hodge)
– “Collapsus” – what energy collapse might look like (interactive video)
IEA’s 2010 report and the outlook for peak oil – Nov 10
– Steve LeVine: How to read today’s big report on the future of energy
– National Georgraphic: Has the World Already Passed “Peak Oil”?
– Online Executive Summary of the report
– Energy inaction will cost us trillions
– IEA: “peak oil is an inevitability”
Hamster Reviews “The Witch of Hebron”
Lemme start with letting my alter ego, Hamster, review the narrative in the style of my fellow Vanderbilt alumnus, Joe Bob Biggs of “Joe Bob Goes to the Drive In” fame, then the geek engineer can get to appropriate technology.
Peak oil review – Nov 8
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The US elections
-Iraq
Jeff Rubin: Oil and the end of globalization – ASPO-USA
You know, knowing the nature of the disease is usually an essential first step to finding a cure. And so too, it is with a recession. Knowing the true nature of a recession goes a long way in helping us to avoid falling into another one. Particularly when the recession we are just coming out of happens to be the deepest global post-war recession on record.
