Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Many believe that a decline in oil production can be remedied by increasing our use of electricity – more nuclear, wind, solar voltaic, geothermal or even coal. This model assumes that our electric grid will be working well enough for this to happen. There is substantial doubt that this will be the case.
Oil sets new record above $120 a barrel
WSJ: Tracking Saudi oil from space
Raymond James: More crude price rises loom
Simmons: $100 trillion needed to rebuild energy infrastructure
Turkish Weekly: Demand is slowing but…
In Africa, outages stifle a boom
Plastics: adored, deplored and ubiquitous
Renewables revolutionary Scheer visits UK
Calif. communities reach for power over energy
Native American company launches wind energy project
While waiting for the price of gasoline to get so high that we can’t afford to drive anymore, there is still some time to ponder just how the great paradigm shift of the 21st century is going to work out.
Solar thermal power – Big Gav’s info round-up
Put oil companies to work on geothermal
Businesses to spend $600 billion on ‘green accounting’
New Yorker: Big Foot (confusing morality and science)
I threw my fears to the wind (eco-activism and children)
Richard Smalley:
Imagine a world that’s energy-rich
David Ehrenfeld: Friendly fire
Britain is third worst in EU for use of renewable energy
Greenpeace: All about EfficienCity
Eliminating fossil fuels is friggin’ cheap
Walking: new source of energy
Infrastructure for the future we want
Peak oil movement in Israel
Sustainability implications of peak population?
Replacing ourselves
Hierarchy must grow, and is therefore unsustainable
Peak Oil is about RATE. And RATE is dependent on the SIZE, AGE and QUALITY of the RESERVES.
Edinburgh city initiative on ‘peak oil’
TIME: How green is your neighborhood?
Cities and energy consumption
A recent NPC report analyzed the political, economic and environmental factors that may be causing instability in the availability of fossil fuels. NPC chairman Lee Raymond and others discuss “Do fossil fuels have a future?”
