Top 10 Pieces of the Peak Oil Puzzle during the 2000s

Here This is shaping up as an instant replay of the USGS

Peak Autos: America's Love Affair with the Car May Be Coming to an End

…That is certainly an interesting report and there is a lot more in it that I did not cover. I am particularly interested in the stats on teenage driving and a subject the article did not cover at all, Boomer Demographics. In regards to teens, parents can no longer afford to buy cars for their […]

Should Climate Activists Support Limits on Immigration?

Immigrants to the developed world have frequently been blamed for unemployment, crime, and other social ills. Attempts to reduce or block immigration have been justified as necessary measures to protect “our way of life” from alien influences. Today, some environmentalists go farther, arguing that sharp cuts in immigration are needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions […]

China, setting the world

Well, Goldman Sachs Furthermore, recent data on crude loadings suggest that close to 14 mn barrels of West African crude is being redirected from the West to the East. The surging Chinese demand for oil suggests that the drivers of not only consumption growth, but also world oil demand and prices, are shifting from the […]

Sweden: Volvo to start methane-diesel tests in February

Volvo Trucks has confirmed that it will launch field tests of methane-diesel engines in February. Several Swedish customers will test the eco-friendly technology in commercial operation, using 7-litre models of the Volvo FL and Volvo FE. The engines in the trucks have been converted for gas operation, with special tanks added for pressurised methane gas […]

Icy crystals heat up

Houston engineer says he Wickrema Singhe, a Houston-based engineer and project consultant to some of the world’s biggest oil companies, has wrestled with the same problem. And recently, he’s developed a technology he believes could provide at least part of the answer. The technology involves using low-energy microwaves to melt the icy structures and unlock […]

Energy crisis threatens Venezuelan exports of fuel oil and diesel

Venezuela’s need to produce more energy, amid a power crisis, threatens declining exports of fuel oil and diesel, which are used in power generators throughout the country. “From now on, there will be an increase in diesel consumption in shopping malls and other places,” said Jos Between February and December 2009, the volume of exports […]

10 big questions on climate change answered

WeatherWatch weather analyst Philip Duncan’s blogs on climate change have attracted a lot of reader interest. He took readers’ 10 most commonly asked questions and put them to Dr James Renwick, Principal Scientist, Climate Variability & Change at Niwa. Philip Duncan: 1) It feels like summers in New Zealand aren’t as hot as they used […]

What If the Global Economy Was a Giant Hamster?

This is one of the funniest takes I’ve ever seen on what it is the single most important topic in the green movement. Forget climate change, forget renewable energy, forget peak oil, forget green gadgets, biodiversity loss, endangered species, and every other thing TreeHugger publishes. Without addressing the quest for never-ending economic growth–meaning ever increasing […]

Sweet future: Fluctuating blood glucose levels may affect decision making

Psychological scientists X.T. Wang and Robert D. Dvorak from the University of South Dakota investigated how blood glucose levels impact the way we think about present and future rewards. Volunteers answered a series of questions asking if they would prefer to receive a certain amount of money tomorrow or a larger amount of money at […]

Smart Windows: Energy Efficiency with a View

Buildings consume 40 percent of the nearly 100 quadrillion Btus (quads) of energy the United States consumes annually. Conventional clear windows account for about one-tenth of the buildings’ share of that energy load, or four quads. That’s because they allow precious heat to leak out on chilly days or allow the incoming sun to warm […]

Economic growth 'cannot continue'

Continuing global economic growth “is not possible” if nations are to tackle climate change, a report by an environmental think-tank has warned. The New Economics Foundation (Nef) said “unprecedented and probably impossible” carbon reductions would be needed to hold temperature rises below 2C (3.6F). In the report, Growth Isn’t Possible, the authors looked at the […]

Crude Oil – Possible Scenarios Analysis

Crude Oil, like many other commodities, had a volatile 2008 and 2009. Crude was trading at a record high in mid 2008 and at multi year lows in the first quarter of 2009. Since then, as the global economy stabilized from a free fall, crude oil prices have also risen steadily. This article looks into […]

Kunstler: Swingtime

…The “green economy” that so many people idly blather about — imagining that it will just mean running WalMart by other means than oil — is actually an economy of awesome stringency. It’s nothing like they imagine. It’s a world made by hand. We should be turning our efforts and our remaining resources toward the […]

Maximum height of extreme waves up dramatically in Pacific Northwest

CORVALLIS, Ore. In a study just published online in the journal Coastal Engineering, scientists from Oregon State University and the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries report that the cause of these dramatically higher waves is not completely certain, but

Cape Wind's fate unclear, even in Obama's hands

(AP) — After eight years of review, the future of a controversial wind farm off Cape Cod now rests in what would seem to be friendly hands – an Obama administration that’s pledged to make the U.S. “the world’s leading exporter of clean energy.” But it’s tough to tell if Cape Wind’s prospects just got […]

Managing Pacific Northwest dams for a changing climate

Civil engineers at the University of Washington and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Seattle office have taken a first look at how dams in the Columbia River basin, the nation’s largest hydropower system, could be managed for a different climate. They developed a new technique to determine when to empty reservoirs in the winter […]

Peak Oil: The Mother of All Risk Management Scenarios

By definition, risk management involves the methodical identification and analysis of events that may or may not happen. The responsibility of present and future business leaders During a recent discussion on the topic of peak oil, the dean of one of America

SAGD and Well Production from Oil Sands

This is a technical post relating to the production of oil from heavy sand deposits, such as those in Alberta. It is a part of an ongoing series of tech talks, and should probably be read after the post last week on surface mining of those deposits. It is simplified, and relatively short, and so […]

A dare for Global Warming Deniers

The famous philosopher Montague Python devised the most popular circular argument of all times when he posited the hypotheses that contradicting is a legitimate, scholarly method of argumentation and he subsequently spawned a cottage industry in academic circles for professors and PhD candidates to assert the converse theorem: The Democrats have embraced the challenge in […]

Korea National Oil puts Canada on its radar

Korea National Oil Corp. (KNOC), sitting on a multi-billion-dollar warchest, is setting its sights on Canada as the state-owned company aims to ramp up production and catch up to Asian rivals. Seoul said this month that cashed-up KNOC will spend $6.5-billion (U.S.) on M&A in 2010 in an effort to cut South Korea’s almost total […]

Global Cooling: What to Believe?

This winter some parts of the world are freezing in record cold conditions. Is this really what global warming looks like? This winter, Britain has seen the longest cold spell in more than three decades, North America was hit by blizzards that brought frost to Florida, two dozen patients in a psychiatric hospital froze to […]

How stimulus saved renewable energy

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — On a mountain top 80 miles northeast of Bangor, Maine, in country where houses and gravel pits are mere pinpricks on a map green with forest, Paul Gaynor is making stimulus work. Gaynor, chief executive of First Wind, is using $40 million in federal funds to help build a wind farm […]

U.K. Firms Mobilize in New Falklands Foray

Rising Oil Prices and Advances in Drilling Technology Lure Prospectors Despite Inclement Weather, Chilly Politics LONDON Analysts say that as much as 60 billion barrels of high-grade oil could be found in the 200-square-mile economic zone surrounding the islands. If estimates prove correct, this could make the Falklands one of the world’s largest oil reserves, […]

Iran Budgets For $60 Price For Crude Oil

Iran planned next year’s budget based on an oil price of $60 per barrel, nearly double the price from the last year, the official news agency reported on Sunday, indicating rising optimism over energy prices. Last year, the parliament approved a budget based on $37.5 per barrel for the fiscal year ending in March, reflecting […]

Days of world consumption: A warning label for oil and gas discoveries

A few years ago I was speaking before a group shortly after a local oil company discovered what was characterized as the biggest find of oil on land in the United States in 30 years. The president of the company refused to speculate about the size of the find other than to say that it […]

Therapists Report Increase in Green Disputes

As awareness of environmental concerns has grown, therapists say they are seeing a rise in bickering between couples and family members over the extent to which they should change their lives to save the planet. In households across the country, green lines are being drawn between those who insist on wild salmon and those who […]

Texas Sabine Neches Waterway Closed After Oil Spill

(Bloomberg) — The Sabine Neches Waterway, the Texas ship channel serving four refineries that process about 6.5 percent of total U.S. capacity, remained closed indefinitely after a collision between a tanker and vessel spilled about 11,000 barrels of oil, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Cleanup crews are working 24-hours daily, Coast Guard Petty Officer Richard […]

Oil Production: Post-Peak Mexico

Each year brings fresh updates to the body of peak oil research but I thought the recent An Explanation of Oil Peaking, R.W. Bentley, University of Reading 2009 was particularly good reading. Bentley does such a good job of explaining in direct terms a simple model for peak oil, without excluding any of the attendant […]

Scientists create model of monster 'Frankenstorm'

Think the recent wild weather that hammered California was bad? Experts are imagining far worse. As torrential rains pelted wildfire-stripped hillsides and flooded highways, a team of scientists hunkered down at the California Institute of Technology to work on a “Frankenstorm” scenario – a mother lode wintry blast that could potentially sock the Golden State. […]

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