Obama orders feds to nearly triple use of renewable energy

As part of an unfolding administrative effort to curb U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, President Obama announced an executive order on Thursday that would nearly triple the share of energy federal agencies obtain from renewable sources. To “promote energy security, combat climate change, protect the interests of taxpayers, and safeguard the health of our environment, the […]

“Wildly optimistic” Monterey Shale estimates

 By now, you’ve probably heard the proclamations: California is on the brink of a modern-day oil boom, and that the Monterey Shale formation, long a source of crude oil in Kern County could usher in another black gold rush. Industry insiders and politicians, citing several recent studies, are literally gushing with optimism over the prospect […]

Pipeline On Wheels: Trains Are Winning Big Off US Oil

A train leaves the Rangeland Energy company’s crude oil loading terminal near Epping, N.D. So far this year, 60 percent of all oil produced in North Dakota left the state by rail. One economist says there aren’t enough oil tankers to fill the demand. AP The oil boom in the United States is creating another […]

How Utah Decided to Embrace “Quality Growth”

Envision Utah didn’t tell Utahns they should build light rail, says Robert Grow. Utahns expressed their hopes and desires for the future, and plans for transit construction arose from those values. Photo: Visit Salt Lake/Eric Schramm If you’ve ever wondered how a deep-red state like Utah has managed to build some of the most ambitious […]

Are plastics the new natural gas?

Professor Yiannis Levendis and doctoral candidate Chuanwei Zhuo have developed a combustion system that cleanly burns plastics as efficiently as natural gas. Photo by Brooks Canaday. Yiannis Lev­endis, Dis­tin­guished Pro­fessor Mechan­ical and Indus­trial Engi­neering at North­eastern, keeps a pho­to­graph of a burning plastic foam cup tacked to the wall above his desk. Thick black smoke […]

Crude Oil Price Volatility on the Way?

Predictive relationships appear to occur between large, rapid swings in oil price and recessions, stock market crashes and shifts in political polls, as I have previously discussed in articles published in 2010 and 2011. Given the economic disruptions that nearly always happen in the aftermath of oil shocks, it seems important to understand what is […]

Will Asia Be Looking to US For Natural Gas?

Volumes of natural gas sit beneath U.S. soil, with several Asian countries ready to buy this energy resource. However, the clashing goals of commerce, energy and environmental interests must first be ironed out, experts said at a recent roundtable discussion in Washington. To help collaborate these various interests and also elevate Asian Americans to take […]

Daniel Yergin: Power in 2030 The Roads We May Take

There is no question that we are at a turning point in world energy. But then we are often at a turning point. Just as everybody gets comfortable with what they expect to happen, a big change comes along that undercuts existing assumptions. Just consider: • Less than three years ago, a ‘‘nuclear renaissance’’ seemed […]

Why Uranium & Coal Rank High For Energy Return On Energy Invested

Not all energy options are equally good, says Thomas Drolet, principal of Drolet & Associates Energy Services Inc. Using an “Energy Return on Energy Invested (EROEI)” calculation to decide which energy sources yield the most for the least energy investment, Drolet sees hydroelectricity, natural gas, uranium and coal at the top of the list. Drolet […]

The Torture Of Not Knowing

In the age of catastrophic climate change and two years following the horrifying meltdown of reactors at Fukushima’s nuclear power plant, we realize that both phenomena are profoundly impacting our species and the earth community. What we don’t know with certainty is the exact extent of the damage being done. In Alex Smith’s recent Radio […]

EIA’s World Oil Exports

Jeffery Brown is our Export Land expert and I would never try to match wits with him on world exports. And congratulations to Jeffery for having the Number one post on Resilience.Org. Top 10 Reader’s Favorites – Resilience and Energy Bulletin 1. Peak oil versus peak exports by Jeffrey J. Brown, Samuel Foucher PhD, originally published […]

A Home in Harmony with Nature? Why, that’s illegal!

When we look at any aspect of what we call “civilization,” we see tangible designs, arrangements of matter formed into specific shapes. And all this shaping and forming is done by the cultural paradigm—by the worldview or philosophy of the particular culture. Does this sound abstract? Well, if you really want to experience the tangible […]

The Collapse Series – Part 3

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GE: The Age of Gas is Upon Us

Natural gas is poised to play a far greater role in the world’s energy mix, threatening to supplant oil and coal in many areas of industrial activity as well as in transportation and in the home, according to a report recently published by General Electric Co. In fact, the report  anticipates global gas consumption will […]

Iran, Iraq Put OPEC On Notice Of Big Oil Increases

Iran and Iraq on Tuesday put OPEC on notice of substantial oil output increases to come, saying others in the producer cartel will need to give way to make room for them. Speaking ahead of an OPEC meeting, oil ministers for the two countries — rivals as the group’s second and third biggest producers after […]

Let’s Give This Era a Name: The Age of Denial

It’s traditional at this time of year to look back at what we have accomplished or how we have blundered, and to look forward at how we might fix things. So far, we should classify this decade of the 2010s as the Age of Denial. People, and Americans in particular, continue to avoid serious thought […]

Peak Oil Denial: Nonsense Keeps Rolling Along

[D]enial strategies suppress both facts and emotions, maladaptive coping strategies admit some of the facts and allow some of the emotions, both often in distorted form, and adaptive coping strategies accept the facts and allow the emotions to be felt, thus promoting more positive behaviours. The three groups of coping strategies may be considered to […]

Our Austerity Basics all in one place

Welcome to Transition Network’s Austerity Basics series.  Ever wondered what austerity actually means?  Where the idea comes from?  Whether it actually works?  Over 9 days in late November 2013, we posted a series of answers to the most commonly-wondered-about aspects of austerity, with the help of James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.  Now […]

Crude Prices Plummet! How to Play the End of Peak Oil

For years it’s been taken as a given that the world will “run out” of crude oil at some point in our lifetimes. Once the rate at which it could be extracted peaked, and assuming the growth in demand remained constant, the sacrcity of oil would lead to nightmare shortages, price ramps and general Malthusian […]

OPEC’s own outages delay day of reckoning on new supply curbs

* Iran, Libya, Nigeria, Iraq all below capacity * U.S. shale could add 5 mln bpd in 5 years to 2016 * No change to 30 million bpd output target expected VIENNA, Dec 2 (Reuters) – OPEC is perhaps fortunate that the misfortune of some of its own members should make a production policy meeting […]

Peak Oil as Wishful Thinking

Is our civilization doomed? I don’t think so, though I’ll admit that the case for doom is a pretty good one. But I wish to be clear on two points. First, it’s not too late to avoid disastrous climate change. We’re in trouble, no doubt about that, but we have the science, the technology, and […]

Transform While There’s Still Time

In her book titles Carolyn Baker features such scary words as “demise,” “chaos” and “collapsing,” but her goal is mainly soul building. The stressful outer reality is a provocation. In Baker’s daily digest of challenging news (“Speaking Truth to Power”), she welcomes a whole range of “collapse-aware” writers, including those who predict “near-term extinction.” However, […]

US Military Continues to Move Forward on Clean Energy

Speaking at a conference on international security last week, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said: “Climate change does not directly cause conflict, but it can add to the challenges of global instability, hunger, poverty, and conflict. Food and water shortages, pandemic disease, disputes over refugees and resources, more severe natural disasters — all place additional […]

Japan Finds Methane Hydrate in Sea of Japan

Japan has discovered methane hydrate lying over a large area in the Sea of Japan in northwestern Japan, in addition to previously discovered areas in the Pacific Ocean, the trade ministry said. The government plans to spend the next three years trying to determine the nation’s reserves of methane hydrate – a frozen gas known […]

Robert Rapier: How Alberta’s Oil Sands are Produced

Introduction I spent the first week of November in the heart of the Athabasca oil sands around Fort McMurray, Alberta. I was there as a guest of the Canadian government, which hosts annual tours for small groups of journalists and energy analysts. In the previous two articles, I covered some of the environmental issues arising from […]

When Calamity Strikes, Think Local

More than a month after Cyclone Phailin battered Orissa, tribes in the eastern Indian coastal state are still feeling its wrath. Besides the damage to their homes and hearths, it has also meant a loss of their traditional food. “Calamities like Cyclone Phailin affect all equally, but the tribes are far more vulnerable to the […]

Why It’s Going To Be A Whole Lot Worse Than In The 1930s

As Mike Maloney forecast in the mid-2000s, the roller-coaster ride continues in world markets and economies. His – so far – spot on projection that “first the threat of deflation (1), followed by a helicopter drop (2), followed by big reflation (3), followed by a real deflation (4), and then followed by hyperinflation (5),” appears […]

Jim Cramer & Dan Dicker Is Shale Oil a Flash in the Pan

Jim Cramer talks with Dan Dicker about the IEAs lastest report which says shale oil is set to peak in the United States by 2019!. November 2013

Technology giving new nations a shot as energy producers

New technologies to unlock energy below the earth’s surface could transform the global energy picture, allowing a handful of nations not ordinarily thought of as energy producers to emerge. That’s because shale formations holding natural gas and oil are more widely spread around the globe than traditional oil reservoirs, broadening access to energy. “Ten years […]

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