Transition Culture Interview with Richard Heinberg – Part Two… Powerdown and Transition Towns
Richard Heinberg on towns and cities preparing for peak oil, taking the message outside of ‘green’ circles, permaculture, and the oil depletion protocol.
Oil
Resource Forecasting for the Geologically Challenged
Crude oil resource estimates tend to diverge to widely different values as the production curve gets close to peaking.
Transition Culture Interview with Richard Heinberg – Part One… Peak Oil
Heinberg on the peak oil movement, the relationship with climate change, lifeboats and more.
Politics – Nov 27
Jordan king: 3 Mideast wars possible in 2007
No ‘miracles’ in the desert
G20 calls for energy investment and efficiency
China’s poorest worse off after boom
Saudis threaten to cut ties to Britain over corruption investigation
Peak oil -Nov 27
Peak oil – the South will rise again
Oil, food, the US $ and the “global” drought
Kunstler: The storm perfected
Pickens predicts record 2007 oil price
Examining CERA’s powers of prediction
Energy Mercantilism on the March
New Energy Mercantilism is the set of geopolitical phenomena emerging as nations realize that, in the future, there will not be enough energy to go around to sustain projected demand.
Caspian oil – Nov 27
Jerome a Paris: A primer on Caspian Oil
Caspian oil field to produce 25% more
Caspian Sea oil producers discuss establishing organization
Disneyland by the Caspian Sea
Venezuelan Oil Stats War
Petroleos de Venezuela SA says the IEA is publishing erroneous Venezuela oil production figures. Sohbet Karbuz, former head of non-OECD energy statistics at the IEA takes a look at the numbers.
Latin America – Nov 26
Ecuador election: leftist economist vs banana baron
Venezuela’s costly policy of cheap gas
Erroneous Venezuela oil production figures?
Admiral Rickover: The future of fossil fuels
In 1957, U.S. Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, the “Father of the Nuclear Navy,” delivered a startling speech on “Energy Resources and Our Future.” The speech prefigured the current peak oil analysis, calling our age the “fossil fuel age.” He warned that reserves are “likely to run out at some time between 2000 and 2050.”
Peak oil – Nov 26
How to address peak oil skeptics
Friendly fire – the dark side of techno-fixes
Investment in oil E&P – an above-ground factor
How to prepare for peak oil and climate change (permaculture)
An Interview with Michael Meacher MP on peak oil and relocalisation
“We could actually lead a happier life if we took some of the luxury or unnecessarily or gratuitously excessive edges off our material lifestyle.”
