Coal Position
Bush admin isn’t putting money where its mouth is on “clean coal”
Energy Policy
The Oil Trap
Nobody – not even George Bush and Dick Cheney – believes that the
Earth is producing more petroleum, at least not within an interval of
time or at a scale to be of any use to us or to our successors.
Friedman: 21st-Century Fuel
If President Bush is looking for a legacy, I have just the one for him – a national science project that would be our generation’s moon shot: a crash science initiative for alternative energy and conservation to make America energy-independent in 10 years.
Britain’s energy time bomb
UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw warned that Britain’s growing need for energy over the next decades has to be seen in a “changing context” due to declining production from the North Sea.
“By 2020, we will probably be importing three-quarters of our primary energy needs — and we will need to adapt to that,” he warned when launching his government’s first-ever International Energy Strategy.
Energy prospects after the petroleum age
The signs are
mounting that a physical scarcity of mineral oil must be
expected much sooner than anticipated. Extreme forecasts
predict that production of known reserves will already peak at
the end of this decade
The concrete isle
Ireland has become rich. It has also surrendered itself to motorways, shopping malls, and urban sprawl, stripping peat bogs, demolishing monuments along the way. Mark Lynas reports on one of the world’s worst polluters
Energy still challenge for Bush
Among the challenges facing President Bush in his second term is a big one left over from his first: energy. Oil is causing the most anxiety. Some say world oil production has peaked.
Rise of the DIY movement / Collapse of the petroleum delusion
To see ahead, we have to understand what we are in the midst of. I pronounce this pre-collapse phase as the beginning of the grand nightmare. Mind you, there will be a dawn, but an unrecognizable one to myopic dwellers of consumer civilization.
China Unveils Energy-Saving Plan
China plans to double its energy consumption as its economy quadruples by 2020, officials said. Up to 1.4 billion tons of standard coal, an amount nearly equal to energy consumed by the nation last year, should be saved by 2020 when China meets its target of an all-around well-off society.
Finite fuels threaten life as we know it
If predictions are correct, no future generation will forget 2005 – the year the world began eating into the second half of its oil reserves. Interview with Pr. David Goodstein.
Energy Supply and Pricing for a Sustainable Future
The reality is, that for all the paper wealth being generated by the so-called knowledge-based economy, Canada’s entire post-industrial economy still floats on an ‘old economy’ pool of oil and gas.
All For Oil
The momentous challenge facing the Bush Administration and America is the very real danger to the continuing supply of America’s very lifeblood: oil.