Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Heinberg and Staniford / The Peak Oil Crisis: Congressman Bartlett’s Conference / Triple J Radio Australia covers peak oil / Jack Zagar on Saudi oil production and peak / A Nice Counterexample [of Hubbert Linearization] / Organizing Ecological Revolution / Zimbabwe’s economic crisis drives it back into steam age / The Five Minute Guide: Oil
Shell Nederland sees five-fold rise in oil production costs / A quick look at natural gas / US panel backs offshore gas drilling / LNG terminals not popular / Texas tea from a Russian Sea
In the interview of Daniel Yergin by Tom Ashbrook, on Point Radio, one of the giants of the opposition to the Peak Oil theory stood forward.
Only after listening to the interview, I got the feeling that not only did he not understand the theory, it’s premises, or even its full assertions and facts, but that he hadn’t really given it enough gravity to even study it. Perhaps he “wiki’d” it. Further, I got the feeling that he was run on high octane optimism mixed with a small amount of BS.
Speaker: Engineer/author John Howe. General question-and-answer session.
Responses to Peak Oil. Speakers: Donald Wulfinghoff (energy efficiency) and John Spear (energy conservation; homes).
Saudi Arabia, the biggest oil producer, and Exxon Mobil, the largest oil company, yesterday declared that the world had decades’ worth of oil to come, in an attempt to calm fears about the record prices experienced in recent weeks.
Matthew Simmons and James Kunstler are coming to Dallas November 1 to share their vision of oil’s future and how we can adapt and plan for a new era of energy use and sustainable development.
Good discussion of the dominant worldview in America and some sobering ideas of where we might be headed, and how it may be the best thing for us.
Pakistan makes plans to cut oil consumption / An Ecovillage, Five Years Later / Jan’s vision, 50 years later / BusinessWeek: A low-cost energy future
Peak Oil conferences in Yellow Springs Ohio (Sept 23-25), Frederick, Maryland (Sept 26) and New York City (Oct 5).
Southern Nevada has plenty of sunshine and solar power, but companies installing solar power systems are dealing with a shortage of photovoltaic panels.
Era of cheap oil is ending, says Aus. Deputy PM / Higher Crude Oil Prices Spark Interest In Palm Oil Biofuel / Post-Katrina Power crews diverted to restore pipeline
