Oil industry – July 8
Pemex Cantarell output drops most since 1995 on spending limits
Chinese and Japanese best-placed for oil contracts in Iraq
Genesis of a giant
Energy Infrastructure
United States – July 3
IMF finally knocks on Uncle Sam’s door
Midwest floods spotlight decrepit infrastructure
House hearing on climate change: costs of inaction
Georgia Judge cites carbon dioxide in denying coal plant permit
Rhizome platform design
Can we get away from the hierarchal model of centralized manufacture and distribution, and replace it with a world where design emerges from open-source collaboration and is manufactured at the point of use by 3-D printers and community manufacturing centers?
Q&A with Marcel Coutu of Syncrude
All OPEC can now do is raise prices by cutting production. They cannot lower prices by increasing production because they don’t have the capacity. We are in a very pure free market situation, with prices being set by supply and demand. When I look at that dynamic, I have stopped worrying about the demand side. No matter how much the US goes into recession, for any period that is important to any of us, any decline in consumption there will be offset by increased demand elsewhere – in China and India, but also in developing countries that produce their own crude oil.
Solutions & sustainability – June 27
Profile of bio-regionalist Stephanie Mills
How to cut your fuel bills 80% or more (software)
Introducing a new currency – the “Carbon”
Burbank Water & Power: Smart grids, WiFi, renewables
Deep thought – June 16
No Time for the Singularity
Just say “I don’t know”
Robert X. Cringely: It’s the Platform, Stupid: Baby steps are the way to energy independence
Electricity – June 3
Sharp power-price rise hits Texas
Texas: Electricity price flies off the grid
Shockingly high electricity prices may await Americans this summer (new)
Texas wind farms choked off from grid due to insufficient power lines
Indonesia hospitals unprepared for blackouts
Vermont: Grid in danger
Electricity – May 31
Nigerian president defends slow pace of reform of power system
NZ blackouts ‘likely without savings’
Iran drought forces power cuts
Eskom CEO: Crisis to last years in South Africa
Nova Scotia Power ready to fight as Venezuelan company cancels coal contract
United Kingdom – May 29
Gordon Brown urges increased oil supply
Strahan: Brown doesn’t get the oil crisis
UK cuts taxes on oil fields, opens areas to development
National Grid blamed for UK power cuts
Fuel protest: lorry drivers flex their muscles
Renewables – May 22
House passes massive tax extensions for renewable energy
Bartlett: Congressional delays hobble renewable energy
Environment is secondary to private profits (renewables vs sequestration)
Inter-connected global grid for green energy,
Peak oil – May 17
High steel prices: A preview of peak oil
Peak Oil doomsters debunked, end of civilization called off
Peak oil: alive and well at Sprott
Peak oil Australia
Prices and supplies – May 7
WSJ quotes Yergin of CERA: ‘It’s not that the genie is out of the bottle — it’s that 100 genies are out of the bottle’
Goldman’s Murti: Oil `likely’ to reach $150-$200
NYT: Gas prices expected to peak in June
A tricky balance: oil industry employees