Review of the IEA World Energy Outlook 2005
Jőrg Schindler and Werner Zittel of LB-Systemtechnik in Munich offer the following review of the IEA’s latest World Energy Outlook.
Education
Other Energy – Dec 13
Pemex predicts Cantarell oil production to decline next year (2) / Shell’s Oman Oil Output to Drop a 5th Year / Coal Producers Tired Out / A shortage of heating pellets
The most destructive crop on earth is no solution to the energy crisis
By promoting biodiesel as a substitute, we have missed the fact that it is worse than the fossil-fuel burning it replaces
Money and energy: the map is not the territory
The map is not the territory. To any thinking person this statement is axiomatic. But, an important corollary is more difficult to discern, namely: Money is nothing more than the right to command energy to do what you want it to do.
Peak oil packs them in at Stanford
A peak oil presentation November 29 at Stanford University filled an auditorium to overflowing, with an estimated audience of more than 600.
Other Energy – Dec 2
Global warming scuppers Blair’s nuclear power plans / Oil Shale Technology – Old & New / Saudi’s plan refineries in South Korea and Philippines / Kentucky faces big backlog of abandoned oil, gas wells / Calpine runs out of gas
Other Energy – Dec 1
Hybrid tractor prototype / LNG powered mine trucks / China May Drill Philippine Oil That Shell, Chevron Rejected / UK Gas supply / LA suburbs sprout oil derricks as city taps into slimy past
Other Energy – Nov 23
U.S. Backs Squeezing Oil From a Stone / Biodiesel Sparks Interest in Maryland Soybeans / Alternative energy sources potentially rich in jobs / How I tried to stop worrying and love nuclear power
First meeting of ASPO-USA a success, next stop Boston
Organizers of the recent world oil conference in Denver are preparing to take their planned annual event on the road to help spread the word about the coming peak and irreversible decline in world oil production.
Other energy – Nov 19
Nation warms up to coal /
Australia pioneers energy From hot rocks /
EIA wind intermittancy – chipping away at the doubters /
Gas fields also deplete, but faster
Working the fringes
The series of articles on Peak Oil published by the Cleveland Plain Dealer is a model for the serious reporting that the US and the world needs.
Other Energy – Nov 17
Natural gas: big worry this winter / World’s largest natural gas project launched in Qatar / Texas gas field draws big crowd / Electricity from wastewater / Canadian CO2 sequestration experiment a success