Peak Oil – Feb 21
Call for international submissions to Australian Senate Inquiry / Energy roundtable features Heinberg and Kunstler / Anti Economist League elaborates on EROEI / Polish peak oil sites
Education
Other Energy – Jan 22
Development of Irans Azadegan field delayed / Gas woes hobbling Aussie ammonium plant / Update from US Minerals Management Service on GOM /
Norways Statoil closes production on five fields
Kuwait oil reserves only half official estimate-PIW
OPEC producer Kuwait’s oil reserves are only half those officially stated, according to internal Kuwaiti records seen by industry newsletter Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (PIW).
Other Energy – Jan 20
New study raises questions about sustainability of metal resources / A New Old Way to Make Diesel / U.S. Will Decode Soybean DNA to Ramp Up Biodiesel Production / Waste incineration ‘set to rise’ in UK / Community members speak out on oil shale
What they don’t want you to know about the coming oil crisis
Long (10,000 word) and frank article adapted from the book, “Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis”. Makes the problem case well, views will differ on his optimistic take on potential of renewables.
Peak Oil – Jan 20
Thomas Friedman: Green is the new red, white and blue / Carbon the currency in a world of energy shortage / WELL meets TheOilDrum / Peak Oil: aids, addiction and opportune infections / Peak America – Is Our Time Up? / On Keeping Warm / Review of “Children of the Sun”
Other Energy – Jan 17
Doubts over ‘clean’ nuke power / Corn farmers smile at ethanol prices / Startup hopes to tap electricity from trees / Natural gas: the next energy crisis? / Canada, the US, and the Tar Sands / Power companies predict return of coal [2]
Peak Oil and the Preservation of Knowledge (full)
Computers are the top card in the house-of-cards complex civilization we built with coal and oil, argues Alice Friedemann. How do we leave our descendents knowledge they can use and be amazed by, information to fuel the next Renaissance?
Peak Oil – Dec 30
The Politics of Energy and the Environment / The peak oil crisis: sliding down the flagpole / Peak oil piques energy concern / GPM Interviews from ASPO-USA confence: Bezdek, Skrebowski, Simmons, Hickenlooper, Groppe, A. Bartlett, Udall / eMagazine – The outlook on oil
The Quest For Nuanced Understanding of Complex Realities Of Exurbia
One example of the backlash against “the new catastrophist cult” is examined for relevance to reality.
Other Energy – Dec 28
Technology and Petroleum Exhaustion: Evidence from Two Mega-Oilfields / For peat’s sake – A solution to Ontario’s energy crisis? / Coal reversal / Caution urged with green energy economics / Aramco to expand by 61per cent
Other Energy – Dec 15
Calif. Regulators Unveil Solar Power Plan / ConocoPhillips set to buy gas producer Burlington for US$35.6b / Shell spending to rise as costs soar / Shell Lacks Oil Sources, Merrill Says / Venezuela, Iran Sign Deal to Explore Orinoco Oil Reserves