Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
I’d like to delve into some of the errors and half-truths surrounding Peak Oil catastrophism, not as encouragement for those who want to party on blindly into the end of oil, which would be tragic, but as a way of refining and bolstering those arguments around Peak Oil that are valid.
Biodiesel industry gets boost from Big Oil /
Engineer shortage concerns nuclear industry /
The true costs of nuclear power /
Lack of staff and equipment hit oil output /
Gas supplies continue to be negotiated /
Plateau update (EIA report)
Chris Skrebowski, ASPO member and editor of Petroleum Review has presented his latest update of Megaprojects, a list of oil fields planned to come on stream in the next years, now up to 2013.
Peak oilers around the globe, get your spreadsheets ready and do your calcs!
Ireland is among the most sensitive nations to rising oil prices and therefore will be among the most vulnerable post-peak. Rob Hopkin’s take on the Forfas report on the impacts of peak oil on the Irish economy.
The high probability that a supply of cheap oil will peak over the next 10-15 years poses a serious challenge for the global economy. We in Ireland are more dependent on imported oil for our energy requirements than almost every other European country and it will take up to 10 years to significantly reduce this dependence. Therefore, it is essential that we now begin to prepare for such a challenge.
Andrew McNamara, a member of the Queensland Parliament revisits the peak oil debate one year after his groundbreaking speech on the topic in Australia.
Industrial hemp has an unlikely new champion: former CIA director James Woolsey. Woolsey sees a link between the need to end America’s oil addiction and hemp’s potential as a source of renewable energy.
The US media have two choices regarding the Peak Oil issue. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, you can now have either your honor or the status quo. If you do nothing regarding Peak Oil, you will soon have neither the status quo nor your honor.
China to buy Australian uranium /
Chavez rules out return to cheap oil /
Business Week: The road to energy independence /
Demand may outpace Saudi oil capacity /
Obama: Dems should stress oil independence /
Silicon Valley man bankrolls clean-energy initiative /
Merkel calls meeting on German energy
‘There’s no planet B’ (UK comedian Robert Newman interview) /
Heinberg in Peoria /
African Union: ‘Era of cheap oil is over’
Chávez seeks to peg oil at $50 a barrel /
True price of UK’s nuclear legacy: £160bn /
Demand for ethanol grows, prices surge /
A Stanford study estimated that the odds of a foreign oil disruption happening over the next 10 years are about 80 percent. As a general rule, strategies that reduce our dependence on oil consumption are more effective than policies that reduce our imports.
