$500,000 Reward offered for whearbouts of Russian Plasma Battery Inventor Dimitri Petronov

A Russian scientist has been missing almost a year. His friends and family fear the worst after he demonstrated a battery that powered his entire house for more than a year without a single recharge Anyone who provides information leading me to meet Dimitri Petronov of Moscow and Kiev (His photo is below) can claim […]

Gasoline Gangsters Episode 10: Fascist Flyers Program

Peak oil means higher fares for flights and even tighter security. This week I discuss the case of my missing laptop found in the custody of the TSA or Transportation Security Agency. Does homeland security have something against me or the Gasoline Gangsters Show? youtube.com

Growing Rice in Vermont and Designing for Peak Oil

I don’t know much about growing rice, but I do know that it tends to be a warm climate crop. So when fellow TreeHugger Mat emailed me about an outfit trying to grow rice in Vermont, I was intrigued. But it turned out that growing rice was just one small part of what Whole Systems […]

Global oil market over supplied – Iran OPEC governor

Iran sees the global oil market as over supplied, despite prices that have been pushed up by upheaval in the Middle East, its OPEC governor was quoted as saying in a newspaper on Saturday. “Not only is there not a shortage of supply in the oil market but there is 1 million barrels (per day) […]

French Prime-Minister declares: peak oil happened in 2009

” We, in 2009, reached the peak in oil production. Production may decrease now that , even though the growth of the global economy has found a train of 4.5% ” , has said Prime Minister Francois Fillon on April 5 before the National Assembly. He was responding to a question on the current energy […]

GE to build the biggest solar panel plant in U.S.

GE is taking aim at the world’s biggest solar company in a bid to expand into a rapidly growing renewable energy market. General Electric Co. announced Thursday that it would spend $600 million to build the nation’s biggest solar panel factory. It would build the same type of so-called thin film solar panels manufactured by […]

A different kind of supply-side economics

In the wake of the devastating Japanese earthquake and tsunami, an instructive story is unfolding about the manifold vulnerabilities of the modern industrial world. Robin Young of the radio show “Here and Now” reported yesterday on the too-often overlooked phenomenon of industrial supply lines. Her guest, Jeffrey Karrenbauer, a supply-chain expert with Insight Inc., said […]

What is “our” oil doing in their economy? — Saudi oil consumption trends

Oil importing nations have long treated Saudi Arabia as an infinitely deep well of crude oil supplies. In 2005, Matt Simmon’s book Twilight in the Desert did much to call attention to the possibility of diminishing production from the desert kingdom’s aging wells. More recently, cables released by wikileaks highlight the possible overstatement of Saudi […]

Germany May Replace 17 Nuclear Power Reactors With Wind Power Farms

Germany could produce 65% of its electricity with onshore wind if wind farms were erected on 2% of its total land, industry group Bundesverband WindEnergie, or BEW, said Tuesday, but it conceded wind power alone couldn’t meet baseload power demand. Citing a commissioned study, BEW President Hermann Albers said onshore wind power could replace all […]

Report From Fukushima

The invitation to accompany the scientists on a private fact-finding mission to Fukushima was irresistible. The scientists and engineers who gathered that day, had, for decades, harboured misgivings over reactor safety design and policies and were active in the ongoing debate over the future of nuclear energy in Japan. “There is a dire need for […]

Stuart Staniford: Will China Slow Down by 2015?

A new paper was released by the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research a few days ago.  The authors are well known and work at distinguished institutions: first author Barry Eichengreen is a widely cited expert at UC Berkeley, Donghyun Park is at the Asian Development Bank, and Kwanho Shin is at the Korea University […]

Is China Overtaking America?

The twenty-first century is witnessing Asia’s return to what might be considered its historical proportions of the world’s population and economy. In 1800, Asia represented more than half of global population and output. By 1900, it represented only 20% of world output – not because something bad happened in Asia, but rather because the Industrial […]

Why I Quit

At the end of last year, I resigned from a 25 year career as an engineering professional.  There were many reasons why.  These are the reasons that are probably ubiquitous to every corporate slave.  I offer this to all those who are contemplating rising out of your cubicles and heading to the garden. Too Much […]

gasoline demand in the US starts to slide

A 357,000-barrel decline in US gasoline inventories to 216.679 million barrels for the week ended April 1 fell short of analyst expectations, an analysis of the oil data released Wednesday by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed. Analysts polled by Platts had projected a drop of 2.1 million barrels. This analysis and commentary is […]

Economic Contraction

Just like peak oil and global warming, economic contraction is a “game changer.”  As the economy we now know crumbles, the far-reaching repercussions will sculpt every aspect of our future.  In my opinion, any long-term plan — Transition EDAPs included — must anticipate that it will unfold amidst a world of economic contraction.  We have […]

CIA Whistleblower: Libya “Vampire War” is About Oil and Heroin

Susan Lindauer is a former CIA Asset who covered Libya at the United Nations from 1995 to 2003 [see more background below]. Who are we kidding? The United States, Britain and NATO don’t care about bombing civilians to contain rebellion. Their militaries bomb civilians every day without mercy. They have destroyed most of the community infrastructure of Iraq […]

World population could peak at 11 billion instead of 9.4 billion

The UN predicts that we will reach 9.1 billion in 2050, then the peak will occur around 2070 at 9.4 billion. But it is so far ahead and the margin of uncertainty is huge. We could easily end up with 1 or 2 billion more, or less. NBF predicts a higher population because of better […]

Peak Oil and South Africa

EcoDoc Africa in collaboration with the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO) South Africa produced this three part video documentary on Peak Oil in South Africa — Impacts and Mitigation. Presented by Jeremy Wakeford of ASPO South Africa, the presentation outlines what the phenomenon called Peak Oil is all about, what it means and the implications […]

Saudis ‘So Unhappy’ With Obama They Sent Emissaries to China, Russia Seeking Enhanced Ties

Reporting from Baghdad, Iraq yesterday, NBC’s Tom Brokaw said the Saudi Arabian monarchy is “so unhappy with the Obama administration for the way it pushed out President Mubarak of Egypt” that it has sent senior officials to the Peoples’ Republic of China and Russia to seek expanded business opportunities with those countries. After remarking on the difficulty […]

India Halts All Food Imports From Japan After Fukushima Fish Found With Excess Radioactivity

India said Tuesday it will suspend food imports from Japan for about three months to prevent food contaminated with radioactive substances leaked from the crisis-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant from entering the country, Press Trust of India news agency reported. Specific food items subject to the suspension were not immediately disclosed, but marine products and […]

PLENTY OF OIL: 1.4 TRILLION BARRELS, AND COUNTING

This is a sequel to a previous post on Peak Oil Revisited. Its main purpose is to examine the contrary view that the world has plenty of oil, and that the scenario of global upheaval due to rapid decline of oil supply is unwarranted. World Oil Reserves As of January, 2010 Figure 1- Proven World Reserves […]

The Errors of Malthus

When the world’s population was several million fewer than the total number of Indians in the world today, Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus predicted that unchecked population growth would lead to famine, starvation and high rates of death. As countries release their updated population numbers—the United States did so in December, India did so last month, […]

Science magazine: Peak oil production may already be here

Perhaps the most sobering outcome of a non-OPEC plateau might be reminding everyone that even planet-scale resources have their limits. And that when you are consuming them at close to 1000 gallons a second, the limits can catch you unaware. The next 5 years, assuming oil prices remain on the high side, should show who […]

The Arab world’s triple crisis

A mere change of governments will not make the region’s economic problems go away. Indeed, the converging effects of population growth, climate change and energy depletion are setting the stage for a looming triple crisis. Economic want and inequality, as much as political repression, incited the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions. It is, of course, to […]

Chris Martenson: Japan Earthquake Is A Mortal Wound To The World Economy

from Carolyn Baker

Kunstler: Obama Blowing Green Smoke

“We also have Secretary Steven Chu, my Energy Secretary. Where is Steven? There he is over there.” – President Obama at Georgetown U last week Blame Steven Chu, then, because when it comes to America’s energy predicament, the president has been woefully misinformed. Mr. Obama pawned off a roster of notions and proposals already product-tested […]

Steep oil decline or slow oil decline?

This is basically the difference between (1) assuming that the only issue is geological decline in oil supply, and the economy and everything else can go on as usual and assuming (2) the real issue is Liebig’s Law of the Minimum, and declining EROEI, as oil supplies decline. As a result, the economy is very […]

In the dark over oil reserves

There is a perverse circular logic to George Osborne using tax revenues from the oil companies to subsidise our national car habit. It may worsen long-term energy security, obstruct the shift to a low-carbon economy and leave us vulnerable to uncontrollable global events, but it makes short-term political sense to the government. Just how big […]

Exploding the Myth of Nuclear Energy Security

In an incredibly ill-fated play of both publishing date and policy being urged on deciders in the energy field, the Japan-based United Nations University (UNU), in February 2011 published a long research paper on how Japan, thanks to nuclear power, could shield itself from a possible new Oil Shock. The paper, written by Brendan Barrett, […]

Yamani: Oil could reach $300/bbl over unrest in Saudi Arabia

Fears of rocketing oil prices were stoked when former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Yamani told a conference Apr. 5 that serious unrest in his homeland could push oil prices as high as $300/bbl. “If something happens in Saudi Arabia it will go to $200 to $300[/bbl]. I don’t expect this for the time being, but […]

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