Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan – Online
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]
Oil
Peak Oil: a Non-event?
The peak of world oil production, in itself, could be a non-event. It is not so much the peak of production that we should be concerned with as the decline of production following the peak.
The Illusive Bonanza: Oil Shale in Colorado
Why oil shale is unlikely to become a major supplier of liquid fuels.
Peak oil packs them in at Stanford
A peak oil presentation November 29 at Stanford University filled an auditorium to overflowing, with an estimated audience of more than 600.
A world without easy oil: What now?
The era of easy oil is over. What that means for car companies, policy makers, investors, consumers and the future of U.S.-China relations, however, is far from clear. The International Herald Tribune gathered a round table of experts in the board room of The New York Times on Nov. 15 to discuss these ponderables, along with Ford Expeditions, prairie dogs and the odd possibility that gas may, in fact, be too cheap.
Peak oil – Dec 4
Inventor of public key cryptography comments on PO, recommends Lovins /
Pemex: ‘We are in the middle of Hubbert’s curve’ /
IEA: Only conservation efforts will keep a lid on energy costs /
ASPO-USA Denver World Oil Conference highlights, day 2 /
Couple take reins in world oil crisis
Revisiting International Energy Outlook 2001
In late 2001 Roger Blanchard published a critique of the EIA’s publication “International Energy Outlook 2001”. Roger thought they would miss their mark. Four years later I thought I would check some of their predictions and see how they were doing.
Peak oil – Nov 29
Deffeyes sticks with Thanksging 2005 prediction /
Monbiot: Cut demand to have any hope of solving the energy crisis /
US Senate committee hearing on peak oil /
Ending the end of oil /
Peak oil and pensions /
Gloomy seasons greetings from Kunstler
Debunking some myths about Energy and the Economy
Dmitry Debunks some well established myths on GDP & Energy efficiency, and Huber “EROEI doesn’t matter”.
Peak oil – Nov 28
Peak oil and the fear of losing immortality /
PO events in the UK for December /
Don’t dither about energy crisis /
Peoria: time running out for oil, gas reserves /
“Risk” and “probability”: MIA in PO debate /
Trafalgar Or Waterloo ? /
PO: what we know now /
NZ Greens: Surely the time is now? /
Why $5 gas is good for America
Other energy – Nov 28
Warm glow of Irish peat takes edge off oil woes /
Global hunger for oil fuels new gold rush in Arctic /
New era for Britain’s coal mines? /
Is coal the answer for Illinois? /
U.S. has plans for Canada oil sands /
No choice over nuclear – UK’s Beckett /
A changing landscape
Forecasts predict that oil prices will remain high. This would have a major impact on the structure and economics of the petrochemical industry.
