Democrats are blowing our best chance for clean energy
How the Dems sacked one of the most important opportunities to turn around our energy future.
Renewable Energy
United States – June 30
US halts solar projects over environment fears
Nevada brothels hit hard by gas prices
Oil price raises insolvency prospect for dry-cleaners
Teenagers’ cruising declines
Drop in revenue strains municipal budgets
High electricity prices possible ‘for years to come’
Legislative and policy responses to energy prices
Review: Crash Course: Preparing for Peak Oil by Zachary Nowak
We need to be prepared for the worst when it comes to peak oil, insists Zachary Nowak.
Food & agriculture – June 28
Scientists warn of lack of phosphorus as biofuels raise demand
Fertiliser shortage hits India’s farms
Food for thought
Energy farm experiment in Kentucky
Mini case study: peak demand in Germany
According to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2008, German Primary Energy consumption dropped -5.6% in 2007. What does the German example mean for everyone else?
Solar, coal, nuclear – June 26
The economics of solar power
How clean coal cooks your brain
Radioactive déjà vu in the American West
How not to be the next North Korea
Many people, deep in their hearts, think that ecological disasters apply mostly to other people. But, of course, as Midwesterners are finding out right now, that’s not true.
United Kingdom – June 23
Don’t rely on the boys with the black stuff, Mr Brown
Poll: most Britons doubt cause of climate change
Monbiot: We must leave the fossil century behind
Wind power to drive green revolution
Revealed: UK’s blueprint for a green revolution
United States – June 19
McCain finds no ‘virtue’ in U.S. oil policies
Bush calls for end to ban on offshore oil drilling
Obama on oil drilling: ‘Not a long-term solution’
John McCain’s oil scam
How to enter the global green economy
Internet purchases shouldn’t be subsidized
Renewables – June 19
Solar future brightens as oil soars
Silicon shortage eases
Solar prices set to slump
Biofuels – June 18
Human cost of Brazil’s biofuels boom
Vinod Khosla: We can do biofuel well or poorly
The bad oil on ethanol
Farm-belt voters down on corn ethanol mandate
Pest threatens Brazil’s Sao Paulo cane fields
Brazil’s diverse energy resources
ODAC Newsletter – 6 June 2008
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
