Peak oil notes – May 14
A weekly round up including:
– Prices and production
– Venezuela
– China
Oil
The Reign of Error
Some of us think humankind will be running low on exploitable fossil fuels in the first half of the 21st century. Resource depletion can change climate change scenarios significantly. I’ll briefly present my version of that story here, my confidence buoyed by the knowledge that such a narrative can not possibly be less reasonable than positions staked out in the global warming debate.
Deep thought – May 14
Peak Oil or Climate Change: Which Is Most Urgent?
On American Sustainability – Anatomy of Societal Collapse
Global Citizenship- Opportunities for Change
Peak oil & supplies – May 13
Oil Prices: Norwegian Supply Falls; Is $100 Oil Far Away?
RAND says cost of oil supply disruption worst threat
Tight storage may lead to huge oil price drop
New PhD thesis: Depletion and decline curve analysis in crude oil production
Transport – May 13
More Cyclists Means Fewer Accidents, Says Report
Car-Free in America?
Building a Low Cost EV in 1 Week
United States – May 13
Green ‘Czar’ Pushes Jobs, Community-Building (audio & text)
Obama’s Weird Idea of Auto Industry Rescue: Use Our Money to Build Car Factories Abroad
Buying Brand Obama
Kunstler: Decoupling From Reality
Getting America Off Oil: The Oil Solutions Initiative
U.S. public health community begins discussing peak oil
Today’s health care services rely on infrastructure and practices that depend upon petroleum. That recognition offers public health professionals a significant chance to help prepare the nation for a post-peak oil world. (Report on conference at Johns Hopkins University, with support from the Centers for Disease Control – CDC.)
Peak oil review – May 11
A weekly review including:
– Production and Prices
– Venezuela
– EU Gas Deal
– The Message sinks in
Peak oil – May 11
Jeff Rubin’s new book on peak oil
Canada’s reckless carbon habit
Oil: No Supply Side Answer to the Coming Crisis
Deep thought – May 11
The Future of the American Dream
Peak-Oil Prophet James Howard Kunstler on Food, Fuel and Why He Became an Almost Vegan
What’s at Stake
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
When the oil gives out (new book excerpt)
“One way to evaluate the prospects of Eldertown might be to start from the viewpoint of one of the more apocalyptic environmental groups. The peak oil movement focuses tightly on the issue of energy, the Achilles heel of industrial society. Convinced that global oil production will soon peak — or perhaps already has — the peak oilers predict a horrendous cascade of disasters in our near future.”
(Roszak was author of the 60s classic The Making of a Counter-Culture. In this book, he predicts that as the Baby Boomers become seniors, they will shake society once again – for the better)
