What was there in the famous “Report to the Club of Rome” ? (excerpt)
Looking back and correcting some of the misconceptions about the 1972 “Report to the Club of Rome.”
Fossil Fuels
Gas Hydrates – Will They be Considered in the Future Global Energy Mix?
For the first time, an international research program involving the Department of the Interior’s U.S. Geological Survey has proven that it is technically feasible to produce gas from gas hydrates. Gas hydrates are a naturally occurring “ice-like” combination of natural gas and water that have the potential to be a significant new source of energy from the world’s oceans and polar regions.
Cuba-A Hope
The Cuban experience with an artifical ‘oil peak’ gives some hope for how a society can re-organise around organic agriculture to avoid the worst possible consequences.
Eating Fossil Fuels
As Peak Oil and its effects become a raging national controversy it’s time everyone reads the story that puts the most serious implications of Peak Oil and Gas into perspective. Your biggest problem is not that your SUV might go hungry, it’s that you and your children might go hungry.
The Caspian Oil Myth
Caspian Sea region oil “riches” exposed as a convenient myth manufactured by various United States agencies, governments of some of the newly independent Soviet states of the Caspian Region, and Western oil companies.
Petro-Logistics is very well connected in the gulf and the Black Sea
From his spare office over a grocery store in Geneva, Conrad Gerber can sway world oil markets. Mr Gerber runs a small firm, Petro-Logistics, that collects and analyses data on the world’s supplies of oil. His confidential reports, which cost his select list of clients as much as $ 5,000 a month, often find their way into the business press, typically causing jumps or dips in the volatile petroleum markets.
Why Hydrogen is No Solution – Scientific Answers to Marketing Hype, Deception and Wishful Thinking
Seeing One Car Run on a Fuel Cell or Hydrogen Gas Does Not Make It a Solution for Anything, Especially If You Invest More Energy in the Hydrogen Than You Get from Burning It or If You Make More Greenhouse Gas at the Hydrogen Factory or If You Can’t Afford to Ship or Store It
The end?
Get out of the way. American capitalism has declared war on the laws of physics.
Natural Gas Crisis
Forget about terrorists. Don’t give another thought to SARS. The single greatest threat to the U.S. right now comes from a critical shortage of natural gas.
Califonia: New power plant wins energy panel’s approval
State energy officials cleared the way for one of the largest new power plants to be built in California since electricity deregulation with approval Wednesday of a power plant near Tracy that will produce enough energy for 1,000 homes.
Asian stocks fall
Asian stock markets were mostly lower Wednesday amid continuing concerns about high oil prices and the impact this could have on the global economy.
Ghawar Is Dying
“Ghawar is dying.” Could those three simple words signal the beginning of the end for the industrialized human civilization on Planet Earth?