Hydrogen fuel cells hint at hope, hurdles
Some think hydrogen will soon emerge as a force in the economy, just as oil did 100 years ago….Others are more skeptical.
Transportation
Carless days not the solution to Peak Oil problem
“The Greens believe we need to have the mechanisms in place to deal with both a short-term emergency, such as this report envisions, and Peak Oil, where we are facing steadily rising prices over the long term and eventual shortages no matter what the price,” [Green Co-Leader] Ms Fitzsimons says.
Sustainability and Environment – 31 July, 2005
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National Geographic on global warming
Peak Oil – An Agenda for New Zealand
At present, world conventional light crude oil production is barely keeping up with rising demand. At some point, conventional light crude oil production will peak, and then decline – a phenomenon commonly known as “Peak Oil”. This will lead to a sharp, sustained rise in world oil prices, at which point the world will have entered the post-cheap-oil age. …
Because the implications of Peak Oil are so serious for New Zealand, SEF recommends that the Government, and individuals, start planning for “the Peak Oil crisis” now.
Adding fuel to the fire
Car ownership in developing countries will overtake the west, but oil demand threatens global stability.
Cyclists bare all in oil protest
More than 100 cyclists have been riding around London naked, in a mass protest against dependency on the oil industry.
Revealed: The real cost of air travel
It might be cheap, but it’s going to cost the earth. The cut-price airline ticket is fuelling a boom that will make countering global warming impossible.
Gas Pains: Summer fuel prices a portent of the crisis that’s here
Heinberg and others who subscribe to the peak oil theory… believe that once the peak is crossed, the supply of oil will be outstripped by demand, and our petroleum-based industrial civilization, with no other plentiful cheap energy source readily at hand, will inevitably collapse. The only question is how hard the fall will be.
Bicycle chosen as best invention
UK: The humble bicycle has won a national survey of people’s favourite inventions conducted by the BBC.
Stubborn GM engineers its decline
As gasoline prices surge to record highs, General Motors teeters on the verge of collapse with a credit rating one step above junk. This is hardly coincidence. GM has willfully ignored fundamental trends in technology and oil.
Rising number of greens ditch cheap air travel
‘We are going to have to face the fact that we cannot go to Australia or Prague or Florida every year. It’s a luxury the planet cannot afford to sustain any longer if we are to have any hope in tackling our current climate change crisis.’
Experts highlight oil supply problems
A conference on oil supply difficulties just held in Edinburgh, Scotland, witnessed a lively a debate about supply and demand in energy markets.
