Media & the web – Aug 29
Author of oil articles charged as spy in Sudan
Energy Bulletin interviewed
How Google Earth is changing science
Trainspotters of Google Earth
Technology
Solutions – Aug 13
Tories plan radical green transport tax / The greenback pack (rich greens) / Green tech’s growth / What’s a clean Earth worth (to your business) ?
The fragility of microprocessors
Will computer manufacturing survive during energy descent?
Why renewable energy matters
Investing a portion of today’s relatively abundant energy resources into technologies that will yield energy later on, when fossil fuels are scarce, will make it a good deal easier to provide that little when it’s most needed, and cushion at least some of the impacts of the Deindustrial Revolution.
All dreams at break of day
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft is being designed and built for a future world of highly priced fuel. This new aircraft is a dream at break of day, at the dawn of the post-Peak Oil world.
Energy price & supply projections – how good are your assumptions?
All participants in these debates would benefit from taking a step back and revaluating their assumptions concerning the primary drivers of energy supply, demand, and pricing.
Energy and military force transformation
An article in the recent issue of Joint Force Quarterly argues that the military should shift from oil and oil-based infrastructure to new systems.
Solutions & sustainability – June 26
‘Green chemistry’ pays off / Think globally? Act domestically. / ‘How green Is my conscience?’ / Vancouver to Halifax on a gallon of gas – 3,145 mpg / A slow-road movement? / A waste of energy (NYT on Congress inaction)
National Energy Symposium: online resources
Leaders from government, business and the media from throughout the nation participated in the National Energy Symposium June 15 at the University of Southern California. Faculty and panels included some of the nation’s leading experts, who discussed America’s and California’s energy future. (Many resources are available online.)
Solutions & sustainability – June 16
Retired nuclear physicist discovers peak oil / Companies embracing sustainability / Rural Kenya women replace wood fires with solar cookers /
Father of energy efficiency to get Fermi Award / Tour of the Maple Ridge wind farm /
Message board activism: the blogosphere’s mext level / Trolling for dollars (Netvocates)
Jonathon Porritt: peak oil and climate change
Speaking to approximately 1000 people at the Hay Festival, the message of the long-time environmentalist was powerful and well received. He described climate change and peak oil as “two riders of the apocalypse”
A warm bath of energy — ocean thermal energy conversion
The Earth has an enormous natural solar collector – the tropical oceans. Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is a technology that can extract useful work from solar energy stored in the sea. It may be one of our best hopes for the environmentally clean, sustainable solutions we need to solve our global energy and environmental problems.
