Peak Oil & Supplies – August 28
Energy price prediction `more difficult,’ EIA’s Caruso says
Bioplastic – better living through green chemistry?
Could $100 oil turn dumps into plastic mines?brScrapping fuel subsidies can help climate: U.N. study
Oil
Peak Oil Notes – August 28
A mid-week update on peak oil, including:
– The hurricane and prices
The peak oil crisis: summer’s end
While waiting to see how much damage this week’s hurricane will do, it is a good time to review recent developments in the world’s petroleum and economic situations for their relevance to peak oil.
The Mexican reforms
In the vast interior of rural México, awareness of an approaching energy and economic tsunami is below even Alert Azul, the first stage of a hurricane watch. For those who read the newspapers or follow television there is no shortage of news about the usual political scuffling between Presidente Felipe Calderón Hinojosa and opposition party leader José Ramiro López Obrador concerning Cantarell oil field’s breathtaking 14% annual decline rate. People just don’t seem to register it as anything other than the usual politics that goes on in México City, a world away from their lives planting corn, grinding steel, or serving tourists with poolside Margaritas.
Peak Oil – August 27
Predator-Prey Dynamics in Demand Destruction and Oil Prices
Heinberg: GM Pines for electric car
Traductions de John Michael Greer (French)
Looming energy crisis In Mexico stirs debate (audio)
The Economist’s Online Debate Series on solving the world’s energy crisis
Peak oil and Mexico: The socioeconomic impacts of Cantarell’s decline
In order to shed light on how Mexico’s oil decline will impact the nation, the present analysis focuses on how declining oil revenues will impact five core facets of Mexican society: 1) Social Progress 2) Economic Growth 3) Inequality 4) Political Stability 5) Migration.
The road to extinction
Compilation of articles not only about global warming but also about species that have become extinct or are an endangered species. Massive.
United States & Canada – August 27
Statistical fluke prevents nuclear incident in Ohio
Debbie Cook: Abandon 19th century fuels and move toward 21st century reponses
Drilling boom revives hopes for natural gas
Schumer: “The drilling issue has peaked”
Big Coal’s Big-Time Lobby
Geopolitics – August 26
Russia’s achilles heel
Analyst warns of looming global climate wars
How Brazil’s PetroBras (PBR) could deliver Cuban Oil to U.S.
Combler le “retard d’effondrement”
L’Union soviétique était mieux préparée à l’effondrement que les États-Unis. Translation into French of Dmitry’s classic presentation Closing the ‘Collapse Gap’. Excerpts.
Deep thought – August 26
Can a dose of recession solve climate change?
David Holmgren interview – transcripts now online
Interview with William R. Catton, Jr. – author of “Overshoot”(video)
President of National Academy of the Sciences: Energy Challenges
Peak oil and prices – Aug 25
Charles Hall on the International Geology Congress in Norway
Raymond James: any ‘meaningful’ oil disruptions will cause ‘significantly higher’ prices
Chris Nelder on peak oil and cleantech opportunities
Michael Klare: Past its peak
The new black: fashion fetishises oil
