Solutions & sustainability – Sept 17
Reflections and visions
Parallel culture: The power of the consumer
Collapse of Wall Street precedes complete disintegration of system. About those “green jobs”
Oil
Peak oil – Sept 17
An urban legend to comfort America: alternative energy will save us
Peak oil, or just peak oil prices?
Were we wrong to fret about peak oil?
High costs could prompt premature end to oil production
Health care begins to feel impact of oil prices
UK government responds to oil depletion e-petition
“The Government’s assessment is that the world’s oil resources are sufficient to prevent global total oil production peaking in the foreseeable future. This is consistent with the assessment made by the International Energy Agency (IEA) in its recent 2007 World Energy Outlook (WEO), which concludes that proven reserves are already larger than the cumulative production needed to meet rising demand until at least 2030.”
Towards oil resilience
Queensland has a choice. We can either plan for an oil restricted world or we can become victims of the global market. With an oil-resilience strategy, Queensland has the opportunity to set its own future. We must get ahead of the game by designing how we live and move around in an oil-constrained world. (Foreward to an online paper from Australia. McNamara is the Queensland Minister for Suatainability, Climate Change and Innovation.)
Peak Oil Review – Sept 15, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– After the hurricanes
– OPEC, production, and prices
– In the Congress
– Briefs
Implications of a ten day refinery outage
Where is our gasoline and diesel supply headed? Even before Ike hit, quite a few areas of the US were starting to see gasoline shortages. The impact of Ike can only make shortages worse. Most likely, it will take refineries at least a week or two to get production back to normal levels after a storm of this type.
The net energy cliff
Charles Hall, the father of the energy return on investment (EROI) concept, once told me that our current society would probably not be able to function if the EROI for the entire society slipped below five. … Hall estimates that the United States is currently running on an EROI of just under 40 to 1. This looks like a fairly substantial margin of safety over the 5 to 1 that might lead to societal breakdown. But worrisome developments in the oil, natural gas and coal fields may send us rushing toward that figure.
Uppsala Research makes a breakthrough in China
Professor Kjell Aleklett, (known for his research on the world’s declining oil resources) and his researchers at Uppsala University have been given a challenging task – they will estimate China’s future need for oil and gas.
Prices & supplies – Sept 12
IEA says oil demand slowing as US changes lifestyle
Raymond James: US natural gas (investors) in trouble
Regulators can’t quantify oil speculators
Peak oil – Sept 12
Vital for the nation’s oil and gas, Port Fourchon looks to rebound
Testimony before the S. Australian Legislative Committee on Peak Oil
EU transport – go green or go under
Peak oil peak – sandwich-board energy theorists are glum
This amazing kid
The dress rehearsal is over
The price spike of early 2008 was merely a dress rehearsal. The fall in oil demand gives the world a moment to catch its breath before the inevitable price-ratcheting process starts up again. Meanwhile, at $100 or so, the price of oil is still 50 per cent higher than last year and 10 times the level of a decade ago.
ODAC Newsletter – Sept 12
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
