Our Economic Growth System is Reaching Limits in a Strange Way
We don’t just extract fossil fuels. Instead, whether we intend to or not, we get a lot of other things as well: rising debt, rising pollution, and a more complex economy.
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Living in Interesting Times: Have CO2 Emissions Peaked?
The projections that had been circulating during the past few months turned out to be correct. Now, it is official: the global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions peaked in 2014 and went down in 2015. And this could be a momentous change.
Peak oil in the South China Sea (part 1)
The recent deployment of missile launchers and jet fighters on Woody Island of the Paracel islands have put the spotlight on the South China Sea (SCS).
World Outside US and Canada Doesn’t Produce more Crude Oil than in 2005
After a delay of several months the US Energy Information Administration has published the latest international energy statistics for October 2015
Freight expectations
When Trucks Stop Running makes a convincing case that the US is scarily dependent on truck transportation, and renewable energies will not power a freight system like the one we rely on today. But does this mean a crisis is just around the corner?
Foiled by Oil
What Big Oil did not tell the pundits was that the unconventionals are a Ponzi scheme, too expensive to compete with renewable energy, made up mostly of a great credit bubble and churning real estate plays.
Whatever Happened to Peak Oil?
A few months from now, this blog will complete its tenth year of more-or-less-weekly publication. In words the Grateful Dead made famous, it’s been a long strange trip…
When Trucks Stop Running, So Does Civilization. Energy and the Future of Transportation
Virtually everything in our homes, everything in our stores, got there on a truck.
No Glut in Australian Petroleum Inventories
The Australian Capital’s daily newspaper Canberra Times started the New Year by reprinting an article of the Daily Telegraph referring to an abundance of oil – without checking whether this also applies to Australia…
We are at Peak Oil now; we need very low-cost energy to fix it
We are hitting something similar to “Peak Oil” right now.
What Geological, Economic, or Policy Forces Might Limit Fossil Fuel Production?
Is Peak Oil Dead and What Does It Mean for Climate Change?
Transition from Oil
Mark Lewis, Former senior analyst for energy, climate, and sustainability research, Kepler Cheuvreux; former head of energy commodities research, Deutsche Bank.