Prices & supplies – Dec 17
Oil Prices Below $40 per Barrel
Will postponed investment push peak oil forward?
UK peak oil warning
UK Industry on Peak Oil: Virgin, Yahoo and Others Raise the Alarm
Technology
Prices & supplies – Dec 9
Why are gasoline (and oil) prices so low — and where are they headed?
Saudi Aramco on 60 Minutes
Russian oil output to fall after 2020: national energy ministry
Brazil’s new oil reserves still buried in doubts
Contango Pays Most in Decade as Shell Stores Crude
The singularity: The fantasy and its effect
An aura of inevitability surrounds the idea of technological progress. And, that aura implies meaningful progress for human society as well. But is that aura in reality merely a paralyzing agent that prevents careful examination of technology and its claims for the future?
Rail efficiencies
We must thoroughly analyze the efficiencies of our existing transportation modes, soberly review existing and practically-achievable alternatives, and then responsibly choose those transportation arrangements our heirs can afford in the future. This is not the time to shoot from the hip, “wish upon a star”, or print our money into hyperinflation!
ODAC Newsletter – Dec 5
A weekly digest from a UK perspective.
The post-oil novel revisited!
Unlike the other post-oil novels published so far, Ill Wind isn’t about peak oil. In those other novels, oil has gradually dribbled away while we’ve steadfastly ignored the warning signs. But in Ill Wind, the world’s oil vanishes suddenly after some bizarre, experimental oil-eating microbe is unleashed on a massive tanker spill, and then runs amok. What Ill Wind and those other novels do have in common, however, is that they imagine a future world without oil.
Renewables – Nov 21
World Willing to Pay More for Green Energy
Britain’s water mills given role in clean energy generation
New System Proposed To Optimize Combined Energy Use
Climate & environment – Nov 19
Emissions up in developed nations
Geoengineering ‘no substitute’ for climate targets, UK minister warns
The greenhouse gas that nobody knew
Prices & supplies – Nov 18
Dash for oil highlights fears of Italy’s regions
Interior Dept sets rules for oil shale program
Oil Shale Pushed as Domestic Oil Source, but Many Doubts Remain
United States – Nov 10
Internet revolution that elected Obama could save Earth: Gore
Obama likely to tackle energy early on
Al Gore group urges Obama to create U.S. power grid
Renewables & efficiency – Nov 4
A Splash of Green for the Rust Belt
Green-collar army recruits for the solar boom
COM-BAT spy plane takes to the skies
New Research Suggests LED Lighting May Put A Serious Wrinkle in Big-Bucks Botox Biz
The ethics of ethanol
Climate & environment – Oct 31
Royal Society to research potential of geo-engineering to limit global warming
Manmade global warming evident on every continent, polar report finds
Climate-warming methane levels rose fast in 2007
