Oil

Latest ASPO Newsletter includes: The Scope for Renewable Energies under-stated
/ New Film on Peak Oil
/ The Fifth ASPO International Workshop on Oil Depletion
/ Country Re-Assessment – Indonesia
/ Correction to Item 640
/ Investment in Kuwait
/ Peak Oil in Washington
/ Running short of Gas.
/ The questionable contribution of enhanced recovery
/ 2005 Update of the Depletion Model
/ Peak Oil Debate
/ Peak Oil on BBC2’s Newsnight

When I was born in 1945, none of the four small farms in my little Swedish
village used oil for anything. Ten years later, the oil age had arrived: we
had replaced coal with oil for heating, my father had bought a motorcycle,
and tractors were seen in the fields.

Permaculture designer and instructor Rob Hopkins talks to David Room of Global Public Media about energy descent and the Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan, which was conceived by Hopkins’ students at Kinsale Further Education College, edited by Hopkins, and approved by the Kinsale Town Council in Cork, Ireland.

Jeff Rubin, chief economist at CIBC World Markets, the bank’s wholesale banking arm says that conventional oil production around the world apparently peaked in 2004.

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.