Energy Industry – Oct 14
Fusion will be cracked “within 30 years”
Credit Crisis Meet Power Crisis
Montana Refining nixes $500 million expansion
Technology
Food & agriculture – Oct 10
U.S. city dwellers flock to raising chickens
The war over GM is back. Is the truth any clearer?
Is a food bank answer to the crisis?
Supermarkets urged to reduce choice and meat sales
Peak phosphorus: Quoted reserves vs. production history
Water & plastics – Oct 8
Plastics ingredient linked to smaller penises
Interview: “Bottlemania”
Water treatment firms help industry close the water loop
Measuring your water footprint
ASPO VII in Barcelona
The program for the upcoming VII Annual International ASPO Conference is now available.
ODAC Newsletter – Sept 19
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Renewables – Sept 19
Duke Energy’s New Solar Concept Has Potential to Supercharge Solar & Smart Grid Companies
Physicists release report pushing for greater efficiency in transportation and building sectors (video and transcript)
Ethanol Makers Hit by Cash Crunch, Corn Prices
Berkeley council to vote on solar tax district
The retrofit economy
Many positive visions of a post-peak future portray a world of bright new options. The impact of today’s legacies, though, makes it much more likely that we will have to work within the limits of existing infrastructure. The concept of retrofitting, briefly famous during the energy crises of the Seventies, may turn out to be a key concept in the future ahead of us.
Transport – Sept 5
For bicyclists, a widening patchwork world
IATA: Airlines forecast to buckle under £5.2bn of losses
An Inside look at the Boeing plant at Everett
UK car sales stall to lowest level since 1966
Driven: Shai Agassi’s audacious plan to put electric cars on the road
New Coal Technologies
For coal, the future of both extraction and consumption depends on new technology. If successfully deployed, innovative technologies could enable the use of coal that is unminable by gasifying it underground; reduce coal’s carbon emissions; or allow coal to take the place of natural gas or petroleum. Without them, coal simply may not have much of a future. Are these technologies close to development? Are they economical? Will they work?
Climate & environment – September 2
Brazil: Deforestation rises sharply as farmers push into Amazon
Can engineering the earth save it from catastrophe?
Australia’s coal emissions are worst, says global study
Reflections on “An Inconvenient Truth”
Review: The Long Descent by John Michael Greer
The Internet writings of John Michael Greer—beyond any doubt the greatest peak oil historian in the English language—have finally made their way into print. Greer’s searingly perceptive blog entries on peak oil, which for the past several years have enjoyed a robust online following, have now been incorporated into a single bound volume from New Society Publishers titled The Long Descent.
Peak Oil & Supplies – August 28
Energy price prediction `more difficult,’ EIA’s Caruso says
Bioplastic – better living through green chemistry?
Could $100 oil turn dumps into plastic mines?brScrapping fuel subsidies can help climate: U.N. study
