Renewables – July 27
Robert Rapier: The future is solar
Is IBM going solar?
Biogenic methane?
Technology
Peak oil and dentistry
Two UK dentists respond to questions regarding dentistry and Peak Oil.
Peak tech?
Go anywhere in America … and one expectation is pretty universal: that technology will only bring us more wonders and miracles, and it will certainly save-the-day where our energy problems are concerned.
Oil industry – July 22
Galileo challenges satellite navigation firms (a more accurate look at oil reserves?)
ConocoPhillips chief urges govt-industry cooperation
Shell president urges more drilling
Petroleos de Venezuela may make shoes, build ships, grow beans
Exaggerated oil recovery
A closer look at the National Petroleum Council (NPC) report: the case of the “missing” graph. Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) been used in the United States for three decades. By its own admission, the NPC’s previous estimates for EOR production didn’t pan out. Are you willing to take the chance that the NPC is right this time?
Peak oil – July 18
NY Times on the NPC report
Dow Jones on the NPC report
Online peak oil book from “Gail the Actuary”
The IEA’s come-to-Jesus moment
Peak oil and entertainment tech
Solutions & sustainability – July 18
Conservative MP: Small is inevitable after PO
Robert Putnam and social capital
Designed deterioration
Argentina: Where jobless run factories
Transport – July 11
Mega-rich paying top price for luxury submarines
Needed in California by 2050: decked freeways, tunnels, tolls, trains
U.S. airlines may face huge plane bill
Australia fights jet-flight guilt
Meet the future of flight: B787 Dreamliner
Solutions & sustainability – July 11
Preaching the anti-shopping gospel
Downsize my dish (less food please)
Green chemistry: changing an industry
Maryland Governor challenge on energy saving
Weird – July 9
Energy-from-nothing device fails to move
Perpetual commotion: Huckster or genius?
Energy investors take note: The Second Law of Thermodynamics still applies
Needing energy – July 6
Gadget boom to drive up energy demand in UK
Electricity in Uganda
Kathmandu’s fuel crisis
Solutions & sustainability – July 3
WorldChanging round-up
Small-is-beautiful is back with Practical Answers
Think globally, manufacture locally
