Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
A breakthrough in oil & gas industry technology is not inevitable. Indeed, it is not very likely. Painstaking linear growth in technological advances permit more oil to be recovered each year, but Seidensticker’s myths about technology change apply to the oil & gas industry just as they apply to most human endeavors.
Hurricane Dean to make landfall in Mexico today: Cantarell now in Dean’s sights
Hurricane’s impact on oil infrastructure
Open letter to Duncan Clarke (PO skeptic)
High oil prices and the new dirty energy
Peak Oil Digest from Cornwall
‘Learn from the fall of Rome,’ GAO comptroller-general warns US
Why is America falling apart? Ask Ayn Rand
US tumbles down the world ratings list for life expectancy
America loses stature as tallest country
Bill Richardson on energy and the environment
The next energy crisis: slowly sinking in Louisiana
IEA’s Mandill: Industry can substantially save energy and reduce CO2 emissions
Nigeria: rich in oil, dependent on firewood
Renewable energy projects will devour huge amounts of land, warns researcher
WorldChanging round-up
Small-is-beautiful is back with Practical Answers
Think globally, manufacture locally
The 12 steps of Transition – the movie(s)
Soil: The secret solution to global warming
Terra Preta- agricultural miracle from the past?
10 Steps to a slow home
Germany mulling program to boost energy efficiency
Contemporary peak oil discourse overlooks the “own demand” of substitution. It takes a lot of oil to substitute for oil.
I glanced out of my office window into the grey smog covering Chongqing, a city of 30 million people and have some thoughts to add on the expansion of this economy.
Richard Douthwaite on complementary money systems
Julian Darley on economics, the money system and capitalism
No efficiency without controls
McKinsey report: Invest in existing technologies to lower energy demand growth
HopeDance special on “LOCAL”
Heinberg: Talking ourselves to extinction
New transcripts and translations on GPM
Big Oil money doesn’t go over well at Stanford
Shell considers halting U.S. refinery plans
BP scraps green energy plan
The downside consequences [of a large reduction in oil supplies] are possibly civilization-wrecking, while the benefits of the upside can be broadly characterized as nothing more than allowing business as usual to proceed.
