Oil a ‘Little Bit High,’ Saudi Arabia’s Al-Naimi Says

Saudi Arabia is storing as much as 80 million barrels of crude to boost supplies amid international prices that are “still a little bit high,” according to the country’s oil minister Ali al-Naimi. The nation, the world’s largest oil exporter, has set aside supplies “on shore in Saudi Arabia, in pipelines, in tanks,” al-Naimi said […]

Japan Nuclear Expert: There are known to be broken fuel rod assemblies in Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 — Large amount of radioactive material has fallen to bottom — “Many years” to get fuel out

Footage of the NYC Press Conference May 4th 2012 Cinema Forum Fukushima Japanese Nuclear Scientist and Japanese and US medical doctors to discuss current radiological health conditions and concerns in Japan after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor catastrophe. Hiroaki KOIDE / Nuclear Reactor Specialist and Assistant Professor at Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute Excerpts Large […]

World Oil: Aleklett’s new analysis of peak oil is refreshingly comprehensive

“Peak oil” is a concept that, in barely a decade, has gone from total obscurity to being a hot-button issue, rivaling global warming and sustainability. It is almost universally misunderstood and often misinterpreted. On one hand, many peak oil advocates are ideological extremists—Armageddonist back-to-nature types who seem to feel that living without oil is preferable […]

IMF working paper – “The Future of Oil: Geology versus Technology”

We discuss and reconcile two diametrically opposed views concerning the future of world oil production and prices. The geological view expects that physical constraints will dominate the future evolution of oil output and prices. It is supported by the fact that world oil production has plateaued since 2005 despite historically high prices, and that spare […]

A Word to the Wise: Know Your Power

Power-related issues are a growing predicament on a global scale. The global population and industrial development are growing more rapidly than existing power infrastructure can handle, having a detrimental effect on efficiencies worldwide. The ever increasing global power issues all stem from an international power grid that is, in a word, archaic. Back in the […]

Visualizing the Anthropocene

Today about 360,000 new people, give or take a few thousand, will enter the world. Significantly fewer than that will shuffle off it, which is why we’re adding about 200,000 people a day. Global population has already passed 7 billion, and we’re well on our way to 9 billion or more by the middle of […]

Americans living “off the grid” look surprisingly healthy

Off the Grid There are growing number of people who have decided to live light on the earth to not be a part of problem anymore I spent the last few years with four of them striving for harmony with nature in the most pristine corners of United States.     Eric Valli

UN Sees Risk of Unrest From Food Costs

Food prices may stabilize at high levels and keep government import bills near a record, increasing the risk of social unrest in the world’s least developed countries, the United Nations said. The UN Food & Agriculture Organization is asking international lenders to accelerate the release of funds to help poor countries cope with high food […]

Merchants of Despair

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dr. Robert Zubrin, president of Pioneer Astronautics and a Senior Fellow with the Center for Security Policy. A well-known innovator in the fields of aerospace and energy, he has a PhD in Nuclear Engineering, 10 patents, numerous publications, and 8 books, including The Case for Mars and Energy Victory. His […]

Peak Oil: Capitalism & Sustainability (Pt 7)

Back in November, Naomi Klein offered a fascinating and thought-provoking essay in Nation magazine entitled “Capitalism vs. the Climate” in which she discussed the transformative changes needed if we are to successfully (not a guarantee) and thoroughly address the challenges of our warming planet. Her insights and observations can easily be adapted to the similar […]

Peak cycling? Bikes are oil hungry beasts

Bicycles came to us with the Age of Oil. Can we keep them once the oil is gone? I am a keen cyclist. When I lived in Vancouver last year I would cycle the four miles to and from work six days a week during the warmer months. Unfortunately my job here back in New […]

Peak Oil for Policy Makers by Richard Heinberg

An intro to Peak Oil for policy makers, and what they should do to start dealing with this crisis now.

The oil industry’s deceitful promise of American energy independence

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. –Sir Walter Scott The oil and gas industry would like you to believe that American energy independence is just around the corner. The question is, why do they want you to believe it now? After all, if energy independence were that easy […]

Predictions are Usually Wrong, Especially About the Future

One of the most popular prediction games among the curious cognoscenti is the “fertility prediction” game. One of the favourite tools of fertility predictors is the “TFR,” the total fertility rate (PDF). TFR is only a statistical predictive tool, rather than an actual item of data. As such, it is likely to be wrong — […]

The world’s looming water crisis

The golden age of water is drawing to a close claims the journalist Charles Fishman in The Big Thirst, his best-selling narrative on the planet’s global water crisis. In the developed world we have become accustomed to quaffing, bathing in and flushing away as much water as we care to. But any day soon, climate […]

Tech Talk – More on hydraulic fracturing

There is a real, practical limit to the amount of oil that can be recovered from a reservoir. Depending on the availability and economic viability of different technical approaches that limit might be less than 25% of the total volume of oil originally in place, or it can be more than 50%, as has been […]

Prophecy, Peak Oil and the Path for the Faithful

Summary talk covering 12 sessions describing a Christian response to Peak Oil. An early summary version of material for the book ‘Let us be Human: Christianity for a collapsing culture’. 45 minutes long.

Water Shortages May Leave Energy Producers Dying of Thirst

With summer approaching, utility planners are devising ways in which they would meet the demand for energy during the most pressing times. Short term, they will consider whether they will have to dip into their reserves and longer term, they will calculate whether they have enough generation and transmission. But one thing that those companies […]

Major cyber attack aimed at natural gas pipeline companies

A major cyber attack is currently underway aimed squarely at computer networks belonging to US natural gas pipeline companies, according to alerts issued by the US Department of Homeland Security. A major cyber attack is currently underway aimed squarely at computer networks belonging to US natural gas pipeline companies, according to alerts issued to the […]

KEYSTONE reapplies for pipeline permit

The Canadian company seeking to build the massive Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL pipeline through the U.S. reapplied for a permit on Friday, pushing the politically sensitive issue back onto President Obama’s plate six months before the election. TransCanada announced it has asked for permits to build the pipeline into Nebraska, and will eventually submit a new […]

Encircling Iran: US claims would win in 3 weeks

The war rhetoric from Washington towards Iran is again being ramped up – just ahead of the second round of high-level international talks on the country’s nuclear program. US military top brass claim they would need just three weeks to defeat Iran’s armed forces. RT’s Gayane Chichakyan looks at whether it’s just more tough talk […]

The Worst Is Yet To Come? Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima A Ticking Time Bomb

More than a year after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the Japanese government, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) present similar assurances of the site’s current state: challenges remain but everything is under control. The worst is over. But nuclear waste experts say the Japanese […]

US sets new rules for fracking on federal lands

The Obama administration unveiled long-awaited rules on Friday to bolster oversight on public lands of oil and natural gas drilling using fracking technology that has ushered in a boom in drilling but also triggered environmental protests. Interior’s proposal would update its decades-old fracking regulations with new reporting standards and a requirement that companies get approval […]

Putting Resilience at the Heart of Development

The world’s population today is healthier, wealthier, and better educated than ever before. Yet, despite incredible progress, disconcerting realities stubbornly persist. Many people still live in extreme poverty, even where economies are growing rapidly. Over 20 percent of the world’s population lives in states which are considered fragile and highly vulnerable. Global economic and financial […]

OPEC says supply ample, speculation driving price

– Oil supply will be more than sufficient to meet demand this year and beyond, OPEC’s Secretary General said on Thursday, but added the price of fuel is being driven higher by speculation. “There has been no shortage of oil in the market. Producers have been able to meet consumer needs,” Abdullah al-Badri told an […]

New Solar Collector Heralds New Era in CSP

Solar thermal energy technology has taken an important step further with a new collaboration between 3M’s Renewable Energy Division and Gossamer Space Frames. The companies yesterday unveiled a new parabolic trough solar collector technology designed to reduce costs and equipment for Concentrated Solar Power systems. CSP is a solar system whereby sunlight is converted to […]

Mexico Sets Legally Binding Carbon Reduction Targets

Since Mexico’s legislative body passed sweeping climate change legislation on April 19, Mexico joins the UK as the only two countries in the world with legally binding emissions goals to combat climate change. The new law will reduce the country’s carbon emissions, end fossil fuel subsidies, and establish a voluntary carbon trading market. This law […]

What’s Wrong with Our Food System?

Around the world every night, one in seven people go to bed hungry—that’s almost one billion people. People are hungry not because there isn’t enough food produced but because our food system is broken. In fact, 80% of the world’s hungry are directly involved in food production. We can address this hunger if we support […]

Tanzania: Controlling Population Growth Vital for Meaningful Economic Growth

ECONOMISTS observe that countries across the globe with fast population growth rates are likely to continue to suffer from poverty even if their economies are growing steadily. Reports issued by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) show that Tanzania’s economy is growing on an annual average of 6.4 per cent while the […]

Can we expect the economy to keep growing?

If we read the financial pages, economic growth seems to be viewed as the “normal” situation to which economies inevitably return. But is it really? If we look back over the past 50 years, or even over the past 100 years, economic growth has predominated. Over the longer term, we know that people have become […]

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