Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Nuclear power is not energy solution, say UK MPs /
Forget computers. Here comes the sun (PVs) /
Biofuel: who benefits? /
Uganda: energy crisis likely to cause global environmental catastrophe – Price-Waterhouse /
Scientist urges switch to thorium
Thomas Alva Edison: “This scheme of combustion to get power makes me sick to think of–it is so wasteful … we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy.”
Rifkin: World on the ‘cusp of a new energy regime’ /
A gentle disagreement on Turkmen gas /
Catfight! (Big Oil vs Big Auto) /
Nuclear power and climate change: is our choice glow or cook? /
New oil is costly for Alaska
Flannery puts to rest doubts over global warming (book reviews) /
Top U.S. utilities targetted with global warming lawsuit /
Craft nears Venus to seek global warming clues /
California governor to focus on global warming
U.S. energy companies call for caps on carbon emissions /
Texas professor criticized over comments about pandemic /
The Worldchanging newsstand /
Big Gav does global warming /
Global warmers: American Electric Power /
Australian CEOs on climate risks /
Heat rising at the Washington Post (scientist bashing)
Historian on M. King Hubbert /
Security: power to the people /
Powering down in rural Alaska /
Kunstler on growth /
Chilean commentary on energy crisis /
The New World Oil Order (links)
Andrew McNamara, a member of the Queensland Parliament revisits the peak oil debate one year after his groundbreaking speech on the topic in Australia.
Briquette that heats homes and saves trees in Kenya /
Sterilizing water with solar radiation /
Jason Edens, rural solar advocate /
Nice lawn, M’Lord, but please don’t eat the grass /
How to stop guzzling gas
Electrification of transportation ought to be the leading economic and policy response to the advent of “Peak Oil.”
Cracking oil is not a funny business /
Clean-coal effort off to slow start /
UK wind power ‘ahead of predictions’ /
On the ethanol bandwagon: big names and big risks
Bakhtiari: After ‘peak oil’, ‘peak gas’ too /
When will peak oil tip? (from backwardation to contango) /
Isaac Asimov on his discovery of peak oil at age 13 /
Online lectures from Stanford’s “End of Oil?” series
Royal Society energy conference in London April 10-11 /
Gallup: Public sees alternative fuels as wave of future /
Oil majors plan to spend more as costs soar /
Russia signs gas deal with China /
Friedman: some conservatives have a new grip on [energy] reality
