Renewables – August 1
Cheap way to ‘split water’ could lead to abundant clean fuel
Pine Ridge Reservation radio station KILI-FM brings its renewable energy vision to life
Westford woman on a mission to get residents using renewable energy
Energy Infrastructure
Asia – July 28
China: Panda or Dragon?
China: Melting glacier leaves world’s worst polluter with no room for doubt
Energy in China: ‘We call it the Three Gorges of the sky. The dam there taps water, we tap wind’
Peak oil review – July 28
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– India’s Economy
– China after the Olympics
– TNK-BP
– Energy Briefs
Australia – July 16
Australia faces food crisis as rivers reach new low
A gas supply disruption case study – the Varanus Island explosion
Australia considers first new coal port in 25 years
United Kingdom – July 15
Brown sets ‘no limit’ on number of reactors to be built
‘Lights will go out’ by 2015 if Lords rejects Planning Bill
U.K. producer prices rise at fastest pace since 1986
ODAC Newsletter – July 11
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Peak oil – July 11
Economist profiles Matt Simmons – The only way is down
Saudi oil: A crude awakening on supply?
Giant oil field to raise Saudi output
Interview: Caltex chief executive Des King
Prediction: oil will correct to $70-$80 over 3 years
Geopolitics – July 11
Why the U.S. won’t attack Iran
The latest oil shock
US will not hesitate to defend Israel, Rice warns Tehran
What fraction of America’s $4+ gallon gasoline is due to the war in Iraq?
The Afghan pipeline you don’t know about
Renewables – July 10
Decoding the world’s best Energy policies
Roundtable discussion: Outlook for renewable energy (podcast)
Ray Brady at BLM on “solar rights-of-way (video)
Peak oil – July 10
Peak oil: it doesn’t translate into Kurdish
Pemex Cantarell output drops 34%
Why isn’t the price of gasoline even higher?
We’re not yet running on empty
Peak oil and the Olduvai catastrophe: is there a link?
The Olduvai Theory is about the declining total world energy supplies and the catastrophic consequences. Peak Oil is a more confined thesis about oil supply declining due to the looming exhaustion of oil reserves in the ground. So Olduvai addresses all energy sources, but Peak Oil is only about one of the energy sources – oil.
In a recent article (Leigh, 2008), I failed to explain the Olduvai and Peak Oil relationship fully and clearly, and I would like to do so in this brief article. So what is the relationship between Olduvai and Peak Oil? Indeed, is there one at all?
Africa – July 9
Gambia: Biofuel – A ploy, says President Jammeh
Nigeria: Yar’Adua seeks concerted efforts against trade in stolen oil
Nigeria: Nationwide blackout: PHCN begins power rationing today