Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
A study by Richard Douthwaite of FEASTA and Phoebe Bright of VividLogic recently looked at how peak oil would affect Ireland through the examination of four scenarios, Business as Usual, Enlightened Transition, Localisation and Fair Shares.
Jőrg Schindler and Werner Zittel of LB-Systemtechnik in Munich offer the following review of the IEA’s latest World Energy Outlook.
Richard Rainwater made billions by knowing how to profit from a crisis. Now he foresees the biggest one yet.
Transcripts from first hearing by Congress on understanding peak oil / Copper may be approaching Hubbert’s Peak / Latin America’s oil production past its peak / Lawmakers: Will we run out of oil?
/ Electrification of transportation as a response to peaking of world oil production / What corporate America is reading: #13 is Simmons
/ Peak oil on Belgian TV
To further raise the awareness among Syriana audiences that oil supply disruptions are coming and that preparations urgently need to begin locally, Post Carbon Institute (postcarbon.org) is mobilizing volunteers around the country to distribute catchy flyers to moviegoers before and after the film.
Professor Kjell Aleklett, President of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas addresses the Committee on Energy and Commerce in the US Congress, including a statement on Peak Oil from The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Automobile manufacturers awake to Peak Oil
/ Rimini Conference
/ BP Forecast of Oil Price
/ Saudi Reserves
/ Country Re-Assessment – Syria
/ Kuwait Confession
/ Voices of Sense in Washington
/ More confusion from the International Energy Agency / and much more…
Peak Oil and Climate Change are two historic events for humans and life on earth. The first threatens modern industrial ways of living and the latter threatens the climatic systems that are an integral part of our world and the way we live and survive.
Lawmakers: US should prepare for global oil flow peak (Bartlett at hearing) /
Lundberg: Reflections on Amtrak peak-oil tour /
Book review: “The Final Energy Crisis” /
UPI analysis: Future of oil /
Deffeyes criticizes media /
“End of Suburbia” video now on-line
Peak Oil and the Philosophers Stone (psychology of PO /
Australia broadcast on the “Real oil crisis” /
NZ Green Fitzsimons: Surely the time is now? /
Kunstler: Uncharted territory /
Peoria teachers examine PO /
Monbiot: The most destructive crop on earth is no solution to the energy crisis /
Peak Oil hits the hill /
Ruppert vs Corsi on PO and abiotic oil [canceled]
The planned increases and start-up of Strategic Petroleum Reserves worldwide will be a significant source of demand for oil over at least the next several years – in the range of at least (conservatively) 300,000 barrels per day and possibly (probably) significantly higher, to 1,000,000 bpd (or even higher).
Perhaps the world’s first local action plan intentionally designing a way down the oil peak is now available online. It should provide great inspiration for other local Peak Oil initiatives. [updated]
