Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Even today, as the peak oil age arrives, fire fiddling can be once more a practical skill, even an art. Everyone knows that fireplaces are not efficient home heaters— most of the heat goes up the chimney. But a master fire fiddler can get twice as much heat out of a fireplace as a beginner.
U.S. Navy Cuts Energy Consumption 12%
Report highlights vital fact on energy: Efficiency gets cheaper the more you spend on it
Peak Moment: Energy Investment, Energy Return
Solar meets polar as winter curbs clean energy
Etopia News – climate change and renewables
Recycled energy: green, underused
Japan should scrap U.S. debt; dollar may plummet, Mikuni says
How to keep on financing wind farms when banks have no money left
Byron King: Falling prices and scarce energy
Future aviation fuel supply is compared to future aviation fuel demand. … This scenario envisages a substantial lack of jet fuel by the year 2026. The aviation industry will have a hard time replacing this with fuel from other sources even if air traffic remains at today’s level. (Thesis advisor: Kjell Aleklett of ASPO).
Fill ‘er up with human fat
Food, fuel and fiber? The challenge of using the earth to grow energy
Obama buys the biofuel hype
New Michigan law allows animal carcasses to be used to make energy
Posing as a Bidder, Utah Student Disrupts Government Auction of 150,000 Acres of Wilderness for Oil & Gas Drilling
Robert Rapier: Thoughts on the New Energy Team
More proof Holdren is a great choice
US Environmental Protection Agency faces eleventh-hour shake-up
Will Energy Efficiency Stimulus Distract America from the Real Task at Hand?
Fatih Birol talks the talk on peak oil – In this 40 minute exclusive interview for my film “PetroApocalypse Now?” I interviewed Fatih Birol, Chief Economist of the IEA about reserves, the USGS, technology, demand and recession, solutions and peak oil. (Also, a mini-review of the film)
Weekly update from a UK perspective
Kelp-fuel cars on the horizon in Scotland
Eating Isn’t Option When Minnesota Corn Burns in Houston Cars
Lucrative palm oil crop putting red apes in danger
Barack Obama declared Wednesday his pick for Department of Agriculture chief, former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack. … Great. Rather than an advocate for a new, more sustainable, just, and healthy food system, we got someone who’s going to focus on burning food in car engines.
As peak oil arrives, and many Americans turn to wood fuel for heating and cooking, how can we mitigate the problems of particulate pollution and deforestation? Let’s talk about ways to get the appropriate information, skills, and technologies out to the public.
