Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Oil Crash: A New 90 minute documentary on the planet’s dwindling oil resources /
[Barrons] Twilight in the Desert: an interview on peak oil with Matthew Simmons /
Energy, the Big Story of 2005 /
“Urgent Oil Apocalypse Brief” /
Predicting US Production with Gaussians /
There Has To Be A Crisis /
Going Local conference
The Peak Oil Crisis: New Years 2006
/ Robert Hirsch on peak oil mitigation
/ Hirsch Tells It Like It Is
/ Leaders ignore oil depletion
/ Oil Analysts, Wrong Since 2001, End Forecasts of Price Drop
/ Ken Deffeyes: Thanksgiving day speech
/ Simmons: $250 oil?
/ Abiotic vs. Peak Oil debate is on
If I might be so presumptous as to suggest a few things you might like to read in the New Year…. here are 10 books I am really enjoying that you might find useful if you are interested in designing solutions for energy descent.
A little background briefing on where we are at — to use some of the bad grammar now normative in American life — before I make predictions (i.e. guesses) about the year ahead.
Peak oil is a term for the point in time when world oil production will stop increasing and begin to decline. New reports are coming in from many quarters telling us that this moment is arriving much sooner than expected. The news is alarming; but if it is true, we should be thankful.
An evening with Dr. Colin Campbell and Graham Strouts, Schull, West Cork, Dec. 2005
“..One of the first things a community can do, then, is to educate itself about energy- try to achieve a basic level of energy literacy: how many of us have much idea about how much energy we actually use in the running of our homes?”
Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman has asked THE question. Will we have enough oil and natural gas to keep our economy going?
Esteemed political figure, Edward Schreyer, comes out of retirement with the hopes of addressing Peak Oil in Canada’s Parliament.
Interview with Doug Reynolds, University of Alaska professor and energy consultant to the state of Alaska.
“We see about 2007 as the peak date for North American natural gas production. One of the interesting things with natural gas, though, is that the technology is so good that reserves are being depleted much faster. This means the peak may hold out a little longer, maybe even until 2008, then it will be followed by an even sharper fall.”
La Crosse newspaper starts series on Peak Oil /
WSJ: Five who laid groundwork for spike in oil market /
The unintended consequences of oil and taxation /
Peak Oil on BBC Newsnight
Jeremy Leggett’s recent book—called “Empty Tank” by its US publisher and “Half Gone” in the UK–builds on his former work as the Chief Scientist at Greenpeace UK and a decade as an international climate campaigner… The book is perhaps the most thorough exploration yet of the relationship of oil descent and global warming, which he calls “hot air.”
Comedian Richard Pryor, who passed away last week, was famous for saying, “Who you gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes?” In a way, those who believe that a peak in world oil production is not far away (or possibly already here) are asking the American public the same question.
