Jessy Re’s Eulogy to Mike Ruppert

Jessy Re’s Eulogy to Mike Ruppert, Portland OR May 17, 2014 While we intend to make public the entire Portland Memorial for MCR, I wanted to first introduce Jessy Re to the world. She spoke beautifully about Mike, their relationship, and about our troubled times. I didn’t want the preceding hour of footage to drown […]

How Badly Is the Wave and Tidal Industry Struggling?

Read this headline from the BBC and try to guess what year the story was written: “Tidal Power Generator Unveiling Hailed as a Landmark.” Or this one from Forbes: “Tidal Energy Could Be Next Big Wave.” No, they’re not from 2006, when dozens of startups searching for money were boldly proclaiming how the waves and tides would […]

The thick façade of civilization

Most of the sky was clear and starry, but ten miles out to sea there was a cluster of clouds filled with lightning. I was anchored peacefully behind a low island that afforded me a perfect view of this dramatic spectacle. Sitting on the foredeck with my back against the mast, I sipped some hot […]

Thoughts on Israel’s Natural Gas Policies

The Israeli government’s energy policy serves to transfer national wealth into private hands. By avoiding price regulation of the gas sector, the government allows gas licensees more than a billion dollars per year in excess profits at the public’s expense. Moreover, if the government moves forward with plans to approve gas exports, national wealth worth […]

Chinese Coal Consumption Just Fell For The First Time This Century

Sources: Compiled from China National Bureau of Statistics and China National Coal Association statistical releases. There may be a light at the end of the long dark tunnel: It appears China’s coal boom is over. While positive signs have been emerging from China for well over a year, it appears the ‘war on pollution‘ is […]

Opening the Multi-Trillion Dollar Market for Energy Management

Energy management is one of the most important parts of our changing energy landscape. It is a market made up of part energy efficiency, part Big Data solution and part Internet of Things. Energy management will be a multi-trillion dollar industry that will reverberate across industrialized economies.  The competitive advantage in virtually every economic sector will […]

The Shale Sugar Lick

A well known American comedian, Ron White, quips about the amount of sugar Americans eat by suggesting that certain restaurants install a sugar lick. Patrons can “belly up” and take their fill at the trough. Such an analogy might be apropos of some shale operators with regard to their addiction to debt. A useful metric […]

How Iraq’s black market in oil funds ISIS

Luay al-Khatteeb spoke to CNN about the impact of ISIS’ march through northern Iraq, and the militant group’s control of some oil fields. He explained how they used the oil fields to raise funds, and how it could impact global prices. This is an edited version of the conversation. How much of Iraq’s oil market […]

Peak Oil means the loss of knowledge

David Schutt discusses the results of what he believes will be the impending deindustrialization of human society that will be caused by ‘peak oil’, the end of inexpensive and easily accessible fossil fuels – WATCH THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW – http://bit.ly/schutt The context for this video is an article published in Haaretz newspaper on July 8, […]

UK oil and gas forecasts ‘incredibly pessimistic’

Scottish government attacks OBR forecast on amount of cash it expects to be raised from North Sea oil and gas Forecasts of future revenues from North Sea oil and gas by an economics watchdog have been described as “incredibly pessimistic” and could be six times lower than the actual levels, according to a report. The […]

Mexico Oil Output Bloated by Water Barrels

Petroleos Mexicanos, facing a 10th straight year of production declines, is including water in its oil output and may revise previously reported data, according to a company official briefed on the matter. A record gap this year between reported output and what the state-owned company processes is partly explained by measuring systems at older fields […]

Natural Gas as A Fuel for Trucking Failing to Deliver

Much has been made of the potential for natural gas as a fuel for the trucking and rail industries. The dramatic fall in natural gas prices in recent years has spurred investment in refueling stations for the road trucking industry and forced the rail industry to review their position regarding the economics of using natural […]

Conversations with Great Minds – Richard Heinberg

In tonight’s “Conversations with Great Minds” Thom discusses what a post carbon planet would look like with the Post Carbon Institute’s Richard Heinberg, author of the book “Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future.”

China’s National Effort in Oil and Gas Fracking Fails

China’s “economic miracle” faces an existential threat now that the nation is the world’s largest importer of oil. The Chinese central authorities mandated a $275-billion crash investment in fracking to develop cheap energy from China’s 30 trillion cubic meters of natural gas trapped in the world’s largest shale fields. But China’s effort to knockoff America’s […]

“Peak Water,” Methane Blow Holes, And Ice-Free Arctic Cruises

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” – Mahatma Gandhi   We begin this month’s climate disruption dispatch with comments from NASA’s Earth Observatory about the extreme juxtaposition of temperatures we are experiencing in North America this summer.   “If you live in the northern hemisphere, the past few […]

Iraq Says It Is Retaking Mosul Dam

President Obama said Monday that Iraqi special forces, backed by American war planes, had retaken a strategically critical dam near Mosul, the latest in what he described as a string of positive steps in halting the march of Islamic extremists across the country. “This operation demonstrates that Iraqi and Kurdish forces are capable of working […]

Tanzania: Why Gas Outshines Other Sources of Energy

FIREWOOD is a common source of energy in rural areas. Charcoal is abundantly used in urban area but have both a negative environmental repercussion. (File photo) MORE gas discoveries are being made but experts are showing concern over more focus on short-term benefits and are advising the government to also focus on increasing local consumption […]

Saudis give UN $100m ‘to fight terrorism’

Saudi Arabia has handed over a cheque for $100m to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to help finance the UN’s centre to combat global terrorism. The UN chief welcomed the gift at a ceremony in his office and said the recent upsurge in terrorism in a number of countries and regions – most dramatically, the Islamic […]

Review: A History of the Future by James Kunstler

In the category of thrilling fiction about our post-industrial future, James Howard Kunstler’s World Made By Hand novels have no equal. And much of their magic lies in the way they transport readers to a captivating, fully imagined world. They depict a future in which the fossil fuels that make today’s world possible have long since […]

Is producing more food to feed the world beside the point?

Imagine you are a small farmer in a poor country, growing corn and a small mix of other crops to support your family. One year a drought destroys most of your harvest, and suddenly you — along with everyone else in the region — face the threat of going hungry. You were able to salvage a […]

Reality Check: Germany Does Not Get Half of its Energy from Solar Panels

The rise of the Internet means that simple factual issues can be checked quicker than would have been believed possible a generation ago. The rise of social media means that facts are not checked, they are retweeted. Such is the case with renewable energy in Germany, where it appears almost anything is to be believed. […]

OPEC’s 165th meeting: ”Everybody is happy”

On 11 June OPEC held its 165th meeting in Vienna and the organisation’s 12 members decided to maintain its production volume of 30 millon barrels of oil per day (Mb/d). The meeting is reported in the OPEC Bulletin 6/14. They also decided to extend Abdalla Salem El-Badri’s term as general secretary of OPEC until the […]

Kurt Cobb: I’d be happier if I didn’t write this stuff

Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.                   –William Cowper For years my father–who is a really great guy–has been telling me that I’d be a happier person if I didn’t write about all the converging threats bearing down on the human race. Turns out he’s right! Here’s what a […]

Peak Oil Civilization After Oil Runs Out

National Geographic Peak Oil Civilization After Oil Runs Out Documentary

The US Is Now Assisting Kurds In Fighting ISIS With Drones, F-18s

Just over a week ago, Obama announced that the US military intervention in Iraq would be solely under the pretext of “humanitarian intervention” while US troops would be deployed exclusively as “advisers”, and nothing else. 7 days later, the siege on Mount Sinjar is virtually over with the US announcing that “far fewer Iraqi refugees […]

Spill Some Oil? Magnetize It for Cleanup

A physicist may have dreamed up a new way to clean up oil spills. David Biello reports. Download MP3 Oil and water don’t mix. Despite that age-old axiom, it sure is hard to get spilled petroleum out of seawater, as was evident during BP’s blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. But what if you could […]

Energy And The Economy – Twelve Basic Principles

There is a standard view of energy and the economy that can briefly be summarized as follows: Economic growth can continue forever; we will learn to use less energy supplies; energy prices will rise; and the world will adapt. My view of how energy and the economy fit together is very different. It is based […]

Russian Oil Flows East as Relations With West Sour

As Moscow’s relations sour with the West, Russia’s energy sector is pivoting to Asia, with oil exports to the region jumping to record highs and analysts predicting a boost for some Asian energy companies. Russia has sent more than 30% of its oil exports—more than 1.2 million barrels a day, the most ever—to Asia this […]

Forget Peak Oil, We’re At Peak Everything

The idea that we’re running out of oil may have faded slightly from the list of concerns, but that’s just one of any number of precious natural resources we’re using up far too quickly. Peak oil is the concept that new discoveries of commercially exploitable oil resources do not keep pace with growing demand. By […]

Crude Oil Prices Fall, But Relief For Consumers Limited

Grain and crude oil supplies are growing and weighing on futures prices, but the impact on consumers may be limited as other factors remain in the marketplace. Grain prices fell sharply in the past few months in anticipation of a huge U.S. harvest this fall, and news from the U.S. Department of Agriculture did not […]

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