Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In a recent commentary, Prof. Dowlatabati stated that peaking of conventional oil production (Peak Oil) will simply mark another energy crossroads characterized by a seamless transition to non-conventional oil sources. This prediction can be readily refuted by simple “back-of-the-envelope” analyses, and the future reality will be much different.
Road to Perdition (the ‘streetcar conspiracy’) /
Shell looks to turn sand into oil /
Oil-Rich Venezuela Looks to Tar Deposits /
Ethantol: Lessons from Brazil /
GMO bacterium to produces 86% ethanol
While misleading articles about oil and energy are so numerous in the media these days that responding to them all would be an impossible task, it is occasionally worthwhile to critique a typical specimen so as to remain in practice.
Wind power / The oil sands sweepstakes / An ethanol reality check / Columbia U. report: US has low-cost alternatives to oil / Dead cows move trains (India & renewables)
Countdown to $100 oil – Time to bet again /
Gwynne Dyer: Oil – the party is over /
Stephen Roach : Oil and bonds /
The oil rush (transforming the petroleum market)
As the world moves ever closer to the time when vital, finite energy resources begin to decline, we need to know not how much oil, natural gas, coal or uranium is left; rather, we need to know how much usable energy is left in these resources.
Canadian tar sands: the good, the bad and the ugly /
Orion interviews with Kunstler /
Global Public Media: Jan Bosak, Ray Anderson, Simmons, Ireland and PO /
La Fin Du Petrole (Oil No More) on Australia TV April 1 /
Recent PO publications in Dutch
High illness rate near oilsands worrisome, says Alberta health official /
Air Force committed to energy-efficient strategies /
China to fill strategic oil reserve in ’06 /
UK natural gas shortage sends prices soaring /
Getting gas from crude (tech talk)
Shell CEO is confident that enough investment will ensure that new extraction technology, LNG, oil shale, and more new technology, will provide enough green fossil fuels; no numbers included.
Alberta’s oil sands will become the most important source of new oil in the world by 2010 as conventional crude dries up, CIBC World Markets says in its latest monthly report.
Warm glow of Irish peat takes edge off oil woes /
Global hunger for oil fuels new gold rush in Arctic /
New era for Britain’s coal mines? /
Is coal the answer for Illinois? /
U.S. has plans for Canada oil sands /
No choice over nuclear – UK’s Beckett /
UK buys into next generation of nuclear power /
New Internationalist issue on nuclear power /
Ethanol is the future for public transport /
The cultural roots of UK’s energy gap /
Green fuel plan ‘will destroy rainforests’ /
Will Canadian oil sands save the USA? /
Cleaning up coal: new, cleaner technologies /
Oil shale shows promise; towns have seen it before
