Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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.
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).
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 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.
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]
Why oil shale is unlikely to become a major supplier of liquid fuels.
A peak oil presentation November 29 at Stanford University filled an auditorium to overflowing, with an estimated audience of more than 600.
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.
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
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.
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
Dmitry Debunks some well established myths on GDP & Energy efficiency, and Huber “EROEI doesn’t matter”.
