On Public Health and Energy
Among the many radical changes that have transformed society since the birth of industrialism, perhaps none have had as great an impact as the revolution in health.
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Inspiring New Film, “Voices of Transition,” on the Agriculture That We Need
How will agriculture have to change if we are going to successfully navigate past Peak Oil and address climate change?
Peak oil is here: the view from Barbastro
We are not running out of oil, we are running out of the financial resources needed to extract it. During the past years, the oil industry has spent enormous amounts of money to make an immense effort in developing new resources.
WSJ Gets it Wrong on “Why Peak Oil Predictions Haven’t Come True”
Diminishing returns from oil limits are already beginning to hit, but the impacts and the expected shape of the down slope are quite different from those forecast by most Peak Oilers.
America: You’ve got three more years to drive normally! – Part 2
The estimate of three years of easily affordable driving depends primarily on how long the current fracking boom, which is holding down the global oil price, can be sustained.
In Search of Oil Realism
Russell Gold’s Wall Street Journal article "Why Peak-Oil Predictions Haven’t Come True" hit the web yesterday.
Scots lost out in UK oil and gas endgame
Those 24 Gboe (oil and gas) hotly debated during the independence campaign appear to be largely exagerated because half of that includes additional and yet-to-find resources the development of which is uncertain.
US shale oil growth covers up production drop in rest-of-world
The world is transfixed on growing world crude production driven by US shale oil but forgets to look what is happening under this remarkable growth curve.
America: You’ve got three more years to drive normally!
Three more years? That’s pretty scary! Surely there must be a mistake in that headline.
Why Peak Oil Refuses to Die
Peak oil and climate change are two sides of the same coin. The coin itself represents our reliance on fossil fuels and their unique energetic benefits.
Peak Oil Review – Sept 1
A weekly review including: Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East & North Africa, Ukraine, Quote of the Week, The Briefs
A Big Summer Story You Missed: Soaring Oil Debt
Last July the government agency, which has collected mundane statistics on energy matters for decades, quietly revealed that 127 of the world’s largest oil and gas companies are running out of cash.