Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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
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
A desire named streetcars: Alan Drake interview
Biofuel flying will take off in three years, says Boeing
Darley:
The race to store in-vehicle electricity lightly
Fusion will be cracked “within 30 years”
Credit Crisis Meet Power Crisis
Montana Refining nixes $500 million expansion
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
Plastics ingredient linked to smaller penises
Interview: “Bottlemania”
Water treatment firms help industry close the water loop
Measuring your water footprint
The program for the upcoming VII Annual International ASPO Conference is now available.
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
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
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.
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
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?
