Warming, End of Oil, Perfect Storm A Talk by Richard Heinberg

Richard Heinberg Senior Fellow In Residence at the Post-Carbon Institute in Lexington, MA Download MP3

After The Peak: Grocery Store Problems

WNOC News interviews the manager of a local grocery store to learn more about the impact of peak oil on the food supply.

Adaptation, Habituation, Consumption and $9/Gallon Gasoline

Human beings resist change until there is no other choice, and then they adapt and habituate rather quickly. Human beings are remarkably adept at short-sightedness and denial. 100,000 years of adapting to the roaming, nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle rather naturally led to a mind and awareness attuned to satisfying present-day needs and exploiting near-term windfalls (a […]

Why Americans Are So Lonely, and Why Future Prosperity Means Socializing with Your Neighbors

Community may suffer from overuse more sorely than any word in the dictionary. Politicians left and right sprinkle it through their remarks the way a bad Chinese restaurant uses MSG, to mask the lack of wholesome ingredients. But we need to rescue it; we need to make sure that community will become, on this tougher […]

Colin Campbell shifts focus to peak price, demand

Retired petroleum geologist Colin Campbell, who worked for major oil companies as well as smaller firms, has long been associated with the belief the world’s oil supplies are dwindling. He does not waver from that and dismisses the argument of the so-called optimists that technology will manage to keep eking out more and more oil […]

Green Business Leaders 2015 Roadmap

Green Business Leaders 2015 Roadmap: Scott McGregor of Camco discusses progress in the UK to systematise sustainability/emissions management in business youtube

China may ease one-child rule

For years, China curbed its once-explosive population growth with a widely hated one-child limit that at its peak led to forced abortions, sterilizations and even infanticide. Now the long-sacrosanct policy may be on its way out, as some demographers warn that China is facing the opposite problem: not enough babies. MSNBC

China lines up 100,000 bbl/day using hard-earned U.S. Dollars

Venezuela will ship 100,000 bbl/day of crude oil to China for 10 years to pay off a $20 billion loan. The per barrel price was not specified but their average basket price is around $75/bbl. President Hugo Chavez announced the oil-for-credit agreement on Saturday night. Venezuela has been working for some time to foster relations […]

By 2040, we should have a stable population

Fred Pearce, the author of the new book “The Coming Population Crash and Our Planet’s Surprising Future,” talked to Jon Stewart last night about his surprisingly optimistic view of the Earth’s future. He explained that there has been a huge population decrease in the past generation: women today have half as many children as they […]

Debunking Peak Demand

The notion of ‘peak demand’ is often invoked to suggest that the US or global economy is somehow less in need of affordable oil today or that Americans are simply finding car ownership passé. But is this really the case? Are we weaning ourselves from dependence on oil? The statistics paint a more nuanced story. […]

The Impending Population Crash

In his new book,The Coming Population Crash And Our Planet’s Surprising Future, Pearce argues the Earth’s population will soon hit its peak and then be on the decline. Fred joined us on the line to talk about how those numbers will shift migration patterns, power, relationships and global opportunities in the future. MP3 New Hampshire […]

Ukraine rejects Russia’s latest gas request

KIEV, Ukraine With the cutoff of Russian gas supplies via Ukraine in its ninth day, there was little sign of an end to the delivery drought despite the EU’s vocal objections. After visiting Kiev and Moscow to press his case Wednesday, the prime minister of gas-starved Slovakia said he had little hope that deliveries would […]

Greenhouse-Gas Limits Touted by Industry to Congress

The most detailed proposal yet by industry and environmentalists to reduce U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions will call for raising the costs of new coal plants and rewarding nations for protecting forests. Rio Tinto Group, General Electric Co. and U.S. electricity producers will present the proposal tomorrow to a congressional committee and recommend Congress will hear the […]

Big Oil Wields Ultra Deep Influence

Opinions may differ on exactly when the Earth will pass its peak in oil production, but there is consensus that the day is unnervingly near: the U.S. Department of Energy and the International Energy Agency date it sometime after 2030 , while controversial “peak oil” theorists place it at 2008.

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Oil prices dip as fears ease over frigid weather in US

Oil futures dipped below $46 a barrel yesterday as traders assessed what appeared to be a short-lived cold snap in the United States, where cold weather and tight heating oil supplies helped drive prices higher last week. Light, sweet crude for January delivery dropped 64 cents to $45.64 per barrel on the New York Mercantile […]

Yukos warns of oil output crisis

Catherine Belton in Moscow Tuesday December 21, 2004 The Guardian Russia’s biggest oil exporter, Yukos, appeared to be heading for collapse yesterday amid new fears over supplies as the true identity of the buyer of its main production unit in a £4.8bn government auction remained unknown. Yukos chief executive Steven Theede told reporters in London […]

Pliable Solar Cells Are On A Roll

Imagine wearing a jacket or rucksack that charges up your mobile phone while you take a walk. Or a tent whose flysheet charges batteries all day so campers can have light all night. Or a roll-out plastic sheet you can place on a car’s rear window shelf to power a child’s DVD player. Such applications […]

Methane Burps: Ticking Time Bomb

There are enormous quantities of naturally occurring greenhouse gasses trapped in ice-like structures in the cold northern muds and at the bottom of the seas. These ices, called clathrates, contain 3,000 times as much methane as is in the atmosphere. Methane is more than 20 times as strong a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide. Now […]

Cairn shares slump on oil setback

Shares in Cairn Energy, a UK oil firm, have plunged more than 20% after a disappointing drilling update and a warning over possible tax demands. The company said tests had revealed that there would be no more significant discoveries at its Indian oil fields. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4103927.stm

ESAI: IEA’s Russian oil production forecast ‘optimistic’

“After reaching an absolute post-Soviet peak of 9.49 million b/d in September, Russia’s average daily production has been falling for 2 consecutive months, and November’s drop was the largest single-month decline since January 1999,” said Yulia Woodruff, ESAI’s Russian analyst.

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UAE Energy Minister’s remarks on reserves/depletion.

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/BusinessNF.asp?ArticleID=143771 Mohammad Bin Dha’en Al Hamili, UAE Minister of Energy- CLIP >>Al Hamili said most of the oil in the world had been more or less discovered. “I can’t see more giant oil fields being discovered. Now we are looking to better the recovery rates and arrest the depletion in reservoirs. “In some of the […]

US Dept of Energy supports Peakoil theory

In case you missed this story: DOE

American Geophysical Union debates peak oil

Scientists debate decline of oil stores: Sooner or later? – Keay Davidson, Chronicle Science Writer Wednesday, December 15, 2004 Scientists meeting at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco debated Tuesday whether the world has plenty of oil for centuries to come — or if it faces impending shortages that might trigger economic chaos, […]

Solar Cell Teams Plastic and Carbon

Today’s solar cells are relatively expensive because they are made from the computer chip material silicon, which requires relatively expensive manufacturing processes including clean rooms. It is possible to make solar cells from cheaper, easier-to-work-with materials, including organic, or plastic-based materials. The trick is finding inexpensive materials that are also efficient.Researchers from the Georgia Institute […]

ExxonMobil president makes peak oil comment

Tillerson expects non-OPEC production of crude and condensate to peak in the next 10 years, “with 70% of total production from seven areas—Russia, the US, the North Sea, Mexico, Canada, China, and Brazil.” He sees the call on OPEC crude supplies increasing slowly through 2010. “During this period, growth in non-OPEC supplies satisfies most of […]

Is the Future of Silicon Valley Solar?

There are striking parallels between the renewable energy industry today and the personal computing industry circa 1980. Much of the basic technology required for personal computing was already in place and was on the verge of becoming economical for mass production. The personal computer hardware and software industry was characterized at that time by small, under-capitalized firms that catered to a hobbyist market (known today as “early adopters,” in industry parlance).

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Pemex

Mexican oil company Pemex may be near collapse, due to depletion and a failure to find new reserves, says Businessweek. The company is run as a patronage, not as a serious oil company; any decline in oil prices could prove catastrophic. Pemex has four times as much debt as Exxon Mobil, but far fewer assets. The company’s largest field, Cantarell, may start declining by as much as 14% annually by 2006.

Printable Solar Panels

Printable solar cells? An attempt to get perpetual funding from the DoE/NSF/etc.? The usual product brochureware, claiming energy paybacks in three weeks. nanosolar.com

Russia Set to Quote Ruble Against Combined Euro/USD Basket in Early 2005

In fact, the CBR has started switching to a composite dollar-euro basket for the ruble earlier this year without an explicit announcement to do so. The CBR used a flexible peg to a single currency, the dollar, before.

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DPA: You Do the Math

Bartlett likes to point out that throughout most of history, population growth was flat — but by 1960 it grew to about a 2 percent increase each year.

Now it’s growing at 1.3 percent, a growth that “continues to put pressure on oil, natural gas, coal and other fuels,” he said.

Bartlett believes that world oil will peak this year, and once “at the peak you’re halfway through.”

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