Geoengineering for a Desperate Planet

Delegates to the world summit on biodiversity here are calling for a moratorium on climate engineering research, like the idea of putting huge mirrors in outer space to reflect some of the sun’s heating rays away from the planet. Climate engineering or geoengineering refers to any large-scale, human- made effort to manipulate the planet to […]

BP CEO says oil spill blown out of proportion

Most scientists believe that the full effects of the BP oil disaster won’t be known for some time. But BP wouldn’t be the sort of company that created major oil spills if it didn’t leap boldly into the breach. So the oil giant’s newly minted CEO is apparently ready to lay down his own verdict: […]

Can shale gas be produced safely?

In northwest Pennsylvania, the epicenter of one of the biggest energy developments in a generation, there’s a battle underway to win hearts and minds. Throughout the countryside, billboards tout the benefits of natural gas drilling: It’s clean. It’s domestic. It provides jobs. The campaign is being waged by the gas companies, who know that not […]

The “Good New Days” in a Non-Growing Economy

Many people, as they begin to consider the problems with pursuing perpetual growth, ask with some trepidation what a non-growing economy (i.e., a steady state economy) would look like. Having lived life embedded in a growing economy, they find themselves fearful of a transition away from growth. This fear is primarily based on experience with […]

Electrification and Expansion of Railroads as a Response to Peak Oil, By Alan S. Drake

One of the quickest and most effective responses to the realities of a post-Peak Oil economy is to electrify and expand the main-line railroads (about 35,000 miles in as little as 6 years) and later the busy branch lines (another 35,000 miles). The railroads burn slightly less than 300,000 b/d and inter-city trucking uses about […]

The End of Oil’s Golden Age

One can argue that the world would be very different from what it is today if we hadn’t found crude oil and invented how to leverage this very convenient and relatively cheap energy source. The energy density of oil derivatives such as gasoline is superior to any other substance in liquid or gas form. That’s […]

The Myth of Peak Oil and Why Peak Oil is Overrated

While the peak oil theorists keep consistently declaring that the world oil is going to peak and that society is going to collapse soon afterwards .But these peak oil theorists only consider conventional onshore oil while making their apocalyptic prophecies .but they do not consider the development of new technologies that have enabled the extraction […]

Bangladesh Govt rejects UN report on country’s population

The government has rejected the statistics of the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) annual report ‘State of World Population 2010’ that has said Bangladesh’s present population is 164 million. “We have rejected the report and will issue a letter to the UNFPA seeking its clarification,” finance minister AMA Muhith told newsmen after a meeting held […]

ASPO-USA: A Citizen’s Guide to an Oil Free Economy

First Chapter of Serialization – A draft soliciting comments An American Citizen’s Guide to an Oil-Free Economy A How-To Manual for Ending Oil Dependency With valuable bonus information on Saving Our Economy, Our Planet and Strengthening Our National Security by Alan S. Drake Foreword “Where there is no vision, the people perish” – Proverbs 29:18 […]

Saudi Arabia: Sorry To Disappoint The Peak Oil Crowd, But The Era Of Cheap Oil Is Far From Over

Peak oil believers can keep on dreaming, according to Saudi Arabia’s oil minister. He’s interestingly talking down long-term oil prices, and shocking analysts with his reserve estimates: Hellenic Shipping News: Mr Al Naimi said at a conference held in the Saudi capital to celebrate the 50th birthday of OPEC that “I am sorry to disappoint […]

More oil slicks being discovered in Gulf of Mexico

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As time goes by boat captians are finding additional oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico waters Possibly these are the remains of the BP / Transocean oil spill , even worse these may be unreported oil spills from other gulf water oil facilities. It is very common for oil company personnel to intentionally fail […]

Days Of Oil And Roses

There are some curious psychological implications to peak-oil theory, although it’s hard to speculate on these without falling prey to a form of paranoia that is just as unrealistic as the denial of the original problem. The main flaw with Paranoid Conspiracy Theories (PCT) is that a conspiracy of over half a dozen people is […]

When will Peak Oil arrive? How will it effect us? and can Green Energy save us?

Peak Oil could arrive as soon as 2012 while others say by 2017. Its effects will be monumental and life altering. Can Green Energy counter falling Oil production? Energy Experts and Economists fear the consequences of Peak Oil. Watch and see what lies ahead for us?

U.S. to Pay Farmers for Non-Food Crops for Biofuels

The U.S. will pay farmers to produce non-food crops that can be converted to fuels for planes, cars and power plants to reduce reliance on imported oil and boost rural economies, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said today. The Agriculture Department will resume payments to farmers under the 2008 Biomass Crop Assistance Program for eligible perennial […]

How (not to) to Organize a Community

Dire predictions made byauthoritative figures can provide the impetus to attempt greatthings: establish community gardens and farmer’s markets, lobby forimproved public transportation, bike lanes and sidewalks, promoteride-sharing initiatives, weatherize existing homes and impose morestringent construction standards for new ones, construct of windmillfarms and install solar panels on public buildings, promote the useof composting toilets and […]

Chicken Little, peak oil and Y2K

At the recent conference of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas-USA in Washington, D.C., an unknown person hired two people to dress as Chicken Little and walk around outside the conference venue. The trouble with Chicken Little is that he neither had a practical plan to address the problem of the […]

Randall Amster: New Clear Energy

Humanity is on a collision course with reality, and the window of time in which to act is rapidly closing. This isn’t a product of “dismal science” or political posturing, but merely a reflection of the hole we have steadily dug for ourselves over the past two centuries. If we don’t make wholesale changes immediately, […]

A Primer on Reserve Growth – part 2 of 3

This post is the second part in a three piece series about the phenomenon of reserve growth in already found oil fields. Insight in future reserve growth, which is often attributed to advancement in technology, is crucial in determining the peak of conventional oil production. For those not familiar with reserve growth it would be […]

Can Canada afford the oil sands?

The Chinese government has urged greater efforts to consolidate coal mines to reduce the number of outdated small mines, the General Office of the State Council, China’s cabinet, said Thursday citing a statement from the nation’s top economic planner. The National Development and Reform Commission ordered coal firms in major coal producing regions, including Shanxi, […]

Peak Oil Pinball

After giving talks on peak oil and its ramifications, I am usually asked how I see it playing out when we begin to feel the tightening of supplies. We have read all the internet sources, and see all kinds of predictions and possibilities for the future. Some see it as a chance to “go back […]

Peak Oil Gas Prices Oil Supply Depletion and The New Energy Crisis

“Peak Oil Gas Prices Oil Supply Dep…” from www.blinkvid.com: presentation, details Peak Oil, the evidence, the impacts, and the solutions. This is the full 48 minute version, edited to get to the point.

Those Supposedly Ballooning OPEC Oil Reserves

A slew of reports have been populating my feed reader recently announcing the growth of OPEC oil reserves, first from Iraq, then Iran, and now Kuwait. I pay attention to this stuff because peak oil is very much on my radar, and has been for about a decade now. It’s more than disheartening to see […]

Kuwait adds ’12 billion barrels to oil reserves’

Kuwait has added at least 12 billion barrels of crude oil to its reserves, which are estimated at over 100 billion barrels, following a comprehensive study, a newspaper reported on Thursday. Citing well-informed oil sources, Al-Jarida daily said the new oil was found in Greater Burgan, the world’s second largest oilfield after Ghawar in Saudi […]

“In America most people have no conception that anything can really change radically” – Interview with John Michael Greer

Alexander Ac: Do you think that peak oil is a turning point in the history of human development? And can we compare it to anything else? John Michael Greer: I think so. One of the problems that I see that a lot of people tend to think that whatever is happening at the present moment […]

China’s Pipelineistan “War”

Future historians may well agree that the twenty-first century Silk Road first opened for business on December 14, 2009.  That was the day a crucial stretch of pipeline officially went into operation linking the fabulously energy-rich state of Turkmenistan (via Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) to Xinjiang Province in China’s far west. Hyperbole did not deter the […]

Google Hits Geothermal Jackpot in West Virginia

Along with the great news that Google is investing a ton of money in an offshore wind energy superhighway, other recent Google energy news is that a Google-funded project has discovered enough geothermal potential under a rather infamous coal state — West Virginia — to more than double the state’s electricity generation capacity. Google gave […]

Making cities more livable may save the world

Progress in my home city of Vancouver gives me hope – but even here we have a long way to go. The most important move urbanites can make is to get out of their cars. But governments must encourage this with better community design and investments in public transit and pedestrian and cycling infrastructure. Cycling […]

World population will exceed 9 billion in 2050

The world’s population is expected to exceed 9 billion in 2050. The countries with over 100 million people will be increased to 17. India will replace China to become the world’s largest country with a population of 1.6 billion, according to the report titled “State of World Population 2010,” which was issued by World Population […]

DEBBIE COOK: A Life Dedicated to Peak Oil Awareness

Debbie Cook served eight years on the Huntington Beach, California City Council, serving as Mayor in 2002 and 2008. She held leadership positions on many regional boards and commissions including the Southern California Association of Governments, League of California Cities, and California Desalination Task Force. As the Democratic Party nominee for the 46th Congressional race […]

Food Versus Fuel – Again

I am off to Malaysia on Saturday for a business trip. I will actually spend some time in Bintulu, so I am looking forward to driving by and seeing Shell’s gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant there. I am unsure about my prospects for Internet access over the following week. When I was in India, I was without […]

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