Wave, Tide, Ocean Current, In-stream, and OTEC power

An Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Marine and Hydrokinetic Resource Assessments. 2013. Marine & Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Committee; National Research Council. Introduction The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) hired contractors to evaluate five Marine and Hydrokinetic Resources (MHK) globally: 1) Ocean tides 2) Waves 3) Ocean Currents 4) Temperature gradients in the ocean […]

Hard Facts About Fracking

A new book evaluates whether natural gas is a ‘transitional fuel’ to a low-carbon future—or perhaps, more like a methadone addiction that’s tearing apart rural communities. Growing up in northern West Virginia in the 1970s, I remember seeing a lot of big white plastic candy canes sticking out of the ground, marking the natural gas […]

Peak Oil: Abundance? Not Really

It’s certainly understandable and indeed common practice in probably every sales conversation in every profession known to man that putting the best spin on the story told is a given. Most buyers/consumers would be surprised at the very least if a presenter offered up her or his best but then immediately discounted that version with […]

Asian, Western Firms Bid for UAE Oilfields

Asian and western firms have bid to help operate the UAE’s biggest oilfields after a deal with oil majors expired this year but the Gulf Arab state is yet to decide whether to let Asian oil buyers in for the long haul, sources said. A final decision on the winning firms is unlikely before early […]

Global Fuckin Warming

This week: 1. Kayapo’s revenge 2. Antarctic meltdown 3. California’s lettuce killing drought 4. Global Fuckin Warming kills! 5. Eco Anxiety 6. Blockades work 7. Women stop Utah tar sands 8. Rising tide blockades line 9 9. Support Marius Mason 10. Savage Fam & Alas 11. Unist’ot’en Camp

Orlov: Fact-Free Zone

The fog of war that has been hovering over eastern Ukraine has now spread to the shores of the Potomac, and from there has inundated ever pore of western body politic. The party line is that pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine have shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH-17, using a surface-to-air missile provided by Russia, […]

North Dakota’s Oil Bonanza Is Unsustainable

A decade ago, North Dakota was a wind-swept also-ran in the oil industry. Wildcatters struck oil there in the 1950s, but the rock was too dense to get most of it out, and the fields never amounted to much. The state produced about 30 million barrels of oil in 2004, enough to satisfy U.S. demand […]

Tech Talk – and things continue to get worse

It is difficult to see any positive interpretation of the changes and conflicts that are increasingly filling the headlines of the press. Fluctuating optimism over the return to credible export production from Libya, to take but one example, is no sooner reported when the news comes of increased fighting in Tripoli, including the international airport. […]

Michael C. Ruppert Evolutionary Collapse

Mike Ruppert is the publisher/editor of the newsletter, From the Wilderness. Most people probably recognize Michael from the documentary “Collapse” which warned about Peak Oil, the collapse of human industrial civilization, and the world we live in today. Michael is also known as the Tracker of Truth to many. His skills as an investigative journalist […]

Peak Prosperity and Peak Cheap Oil: Chris Martenson Interview

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Peak Oil – Oil Addicted America

Peak Oil – Oil Addicted America

Operation Protective Edge: One Hundred Thirty Nine Square Miles of Sand, Part I

““Mr. Balfour, supposing I was to offer you Paris instead of London, would you take it?” He sat up, looked at me, and answered: “But Dr. Weizmann, we have London.” “That is true,” I said, “but we had Jerusalem when London was a marsh.”“ Operation Protective Edge, 2014 Events in Gaza fill us with deep […]

Fukushima: Bad and Getting Worse

Fukushima’s radiation disaster is “far from over” There is broad disagreement over the amounts and effects of radiation exposure due to the triple reactor meltdowns after the 2011 Great East-Japan Earthquake and tsunami. The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) joined the controversy June 4, with a 27-page “Critical Analysis of the […]

California Halts Fracking Waste Injections; Fears “Danger To Life, Health, & Natural Resources”

Seven independent oil companies have been ordered to halt state-approved wastewater injection work this week, according to The Bakersfied Californian, The cessation of fracking is out of concern they may be contaminating Kern County drinking water. As ProPublica reports, The state’s Division of Oil and Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) is warning that they may […]

Biofuel Energy Content Boosted to Crude Oil Level

Among the many challenges that biofuels face has been that quality and energy content are low. Now, scientists have developed a catalyst that takes care of this aspect and delivers the fuel energy content better than crude oil’s and approximates that of diesel. The oil in current-generation biofuel comes largely from plant residues, pruned waste […]

America Has Saved the World From a Global Oil Crisis

By now, you’ve probably heard of all the benefits that the U.S. shale boom has brought: We’re importing less oil, production is supporting job growth, industries are coming back to the U.S. because of the energy savings, etc. I’m guessing you haven’t heard this one, though: Were it not for what’s happened these last few […]

Abby Martin Interviews Carolyn Baker On “Extinction Dialogs: Living With Death In Mind”

Abby Martin Interviews Carolyn Baker On “Extinction Dialogs: Living With Death In Mind,” By Carolyn And Guy McPherson

Elon Musk Needs a Very Big Factory for His New Solar Technology

Technology Review has an article on another monster factory being planned by Elon Musk – this one for solar panels rather than battery storage – to support his SolarCity business – Elon Musk Needs a Very Big Factory for His New Solar Technology. Billionaire, Tesla founder, and private space entrepreneur Elon Musk announced yesterday that […]

Energy in Australia: Peak oil, solar power and Asia’s economic growth

Listen now Download audio show transcript Graham Palmer, an industrial engineer from Melbourne, discusses energy use and needs. He predicts that the declining energy surplus of fossil fuels will be one of the defining features of energy systems in the twenty first century. ABC

Collapse is Inevitable

There has been considerable discussion lately as to whether or not total collapse of the world economies will happen in the relatively near future. I think that is the wrong question. Let me explain. Ecological collapse of the world’s ecosystem is a lead pipe cinch. It is already well underway and instead of slowing down, […]

Are insects the future of food?

Download podcast As global populations continue to rise around the world, concerns grow over how people will be able to feed themselves in the decades to come. VoR’s Simon Parker hosts a discussion on the future of feeding a growing global population. And what we eat – and what we can produce – is central […]

Old-school traders of physical oil teach hedge funds a lesson

A near 10 percent drop in international oil prices since last month has taught a painful lesson to many hedge funds and other speculators in energy futures: you can ignore physical markets for only so long. Hedge funds piled into what seemed a one-way bet in early June, grabbing up oil contracts as the rapid […]

US Approves Plan To Open Atlantic To Oil Reserve Surveys

The Obama administration on Friday approved a plan that would allow companies to assess oil resources off the Atlantic Coast, angering environmental groups that worried the plan will harm marine life and open the door to offshore drilling. First outlined by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in February, the plan lays out the mitigation […]

Indian Power crisis looms as coal stocks run low

India is staring at a major power crisis in the coming months as 50% of the country’s thermal power plants are running on very low coal stock of less than four days or even lesser. India uses coal to generate more than half of its electricity. The northern states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Chandigarh, Jammu […]

Iran, six powers agree to four-month extension of nuclear talks

Iran and six world powers on Friday agreed to a four-month extension of negotiations on a long-term nuclear deal that would gradually end sanctions on Tehran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear programme, diplomats close to the talks said. Iran, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China had set a July 20 […]

Australia Repeals Carbon Tax

After almost a decade of heated political debate, Australia has become the world’s first developed nation to repeal carbon laws that put a price on greenhouse-gas emissions. In a vote that could highlight the difficulty in implementing additional measures to reduce carbon emissions ahead of global climate talks next year in Paris, Australia’s Senate on […]

Is Israel’s Operation Protective Edge Really About Natural Gas?

While many articles have debunked the myth that Israel is acting out of “self-defense,” very few have attempted to establish why Israel is continuing its assault on Palestine through Operation Protective Edge, aside from the supposition that Zionists have a fanatic penchant for drawing Palestinian blood. Behind the operation, behind the mass Israeli and U.S. […]

Japan Rejoins World Nuclear Club

Bloomberg’s “The Pulse” reports on today’s top energy news stories.

Did the US Commerce condensate export rulings mean nothing?

Two US Commerce Department rulings giving a pair of Eagle Ford players legal backing to export processed condensate have been viewed as a dramatic loosening of America’s 40-year ban on crude exports, or at least a sign that long-awaited export policy changes were near. But what if these private letter rulings really only impact the […]

‘Peak soil’ threatens future global food security

The challenge of ensuring future food security as populations grow and diets change has its roots in soil, but the increasing degradation of the earth’s thin skin is threatening to push up food prices and increase deforestation.     While the worries about peaking oil production have been eased by fresh sources released by hydraulic fracturing, […]

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