Car-Sharing Company Plans Nationwide Expansion

Zipcar, a car-sharing company located in seven states and 21 cities, announced plans in mid-November to become the first nationwide car-sharing service in the United States. Car-sharing services allow their members to use a variety of vehicles at hourly or daily rates. Although the main intent is to help people get by without owning a vehicle, car-sharing services also encourage greater use of transit services and provide alternatives to owning a large fuel-guzzling vehicle that may rarely be used for hauling large items. Zipcar offers 20 different makes and models, including the Toyota Prius. See the Zipcar press release here http://www.zipcar.com/press/releases/press-18

Few Refineries for Cheaper Heavy Oil

Iraq Oil Infrastructure Losing Billions

Between August and October, Iraq lost $7 billion dollars in potential revenues due to sabotage against the country’s oil infrastructure, according to Assem Jihad, spokesman of the Oil Ministry.

An estimated 20 oil wells and pipelines were bombed or set ablaze this month in northern Iraq alone, according to an official of the Northern Company. Iraq has oilfields in the north around Kirkuk and in the south near Basra.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041130/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_oil_under_attack

Canada needs higher fuel prices to bridge the gap to renewables

By William Rees Canadians enjoy one of the most energy-intensive economies on Earth.(1) Much of the country depends, directly or indirectly, on fossil fuel for heat in winter and for air conditioning in summer. The Canadian way of life feeds on mainly fossil-fuelled transportation that moves everything people need over vast distances within the country […]

Saudi Arabia to Raise Oil Capacity to Ease Concerns

Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, plans to expand output capacity by 14 percent to ease concern of potential shortages, said the nation’s oil minister, Ali al-Naimi. http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=aX4XGZDY9ljI&refer=home

The Great Uninvention

November 27, 2004

An invention that would be great if only it had been invented
MATTHEW PARRIS

Times Online

Moon gas could meet Earth’s future energy demands

“When compared to the Earth the Moon has a tremendous amount of helium 3,. Just 25 tonnes of helium, which can be transported on a space shuttle, is enough to provide electricity for the US for one full year,”

Hindustan
Times

Big Enough to Scare OPEC

Heres a nitch EV you can buy for $12,000 now.
A pictures worth a thousand words.

Neighbourhood Electric Vehicle Company

Opec president confident of price fall in mid-2005

Khaleej Times Online JAKARTA – Opec president Purnomo Yusgiantoro said yesterday he is confident that global oil prices will fall in the second quarter of 2005 due to a decline in world demand. http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/business/2004/November/business_November354.xml§ion=business&col=Khaleej Times Online JAKARTA – Opec president Purnomo Yusgiantoro said yesterday he is confident that global oil prices will fall in the […]

Peak steel?

Nissan suspends plants due to steel shortage

Nissan Motor, the Japanese carmaker, has been forced to stop production at three of its four car assembly plants in Japan for five working days after running out of steel – a dramatic illustration of the shortages that have started affecting companies across Asia.

FT

Caltech physics professor warns that there is no perfect energy solution

Published on Tuesday, November 23, 2004 by ABC (Australia) Professor Goodstein discusses lowering oil reserves By Tony Jones TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT TONY JONES: Now to tonight’s guest – David Goodstein is professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology or Caltech. In his latest book, ‘Out of Gas’ – the End of the Age […]

Oil Over $49 on Heating Fuel, Iraq

Energy fails to gain traction, despite high prices.

America traditionally has left investments to private investors, not to Politburo-style five- or 10-year plans. Still, the politicians will insist that they know best, although any sane person realizes that no energy strategy will cure anything that ails the economy. The best US energy policy would be No Policy.

WorldOil

Geo-Bio-Reactor

DISCOVERY OF REAL-TIME NATURAL GAS FORMATION OFFERS PROSPECT FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCE, Powder river basin could provide natural gas for centuries instead of decades Researchers at Luca Technologies, Inc. have made a discovery regarding natural gas production in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin that could lead to a renewable source of energy for generations to come. […]

# Transcripts: Sonia Shah on Crude: The Story of Oil (1 October 2004)

I transcribed her 30 minute talk for my fellow oil-peak friends to copy and/or print-out her many concise descriptions.

http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/transcripts/sonia_shah_on_crude_the_story_of_oil

Smalley raises problem of fossil fuel depletion at Nanoforum

During a keynote speech on the first day of NanoForum, Richard Smalley,
director of the Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory at Rice University in
Houston, Texas, identified the shortage of fossil fuels as the most
significant problem facing human civilization. Nanotechnology has the
potential to provide an energy storage capability so that alternative energy
sources can be widely adopted. “We need new technology to solve the energy
problem,” he said.
However, Smalley warned that the U.S. would experience a shortage of
future scientists to find solutions to these problems. That’s because fewer
young people were pursuing science and technology as careers. “Where are the
new Edisons?” he asked.
“The era of Sputnik and the moon shot were the only time we were
successful in getting American kids into science and technology,” said
Smalley, who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1996 for his discovery of
“buckyballs” — the soccer ball-shaped molecule which is the third carbon
element.

PR Newswire

The Energy Challenge 2004 – Petroleum

There is a phenomenon, well known in the oil industry, but little publicized, that when an oil field has been about 50% depleted, production begins an irreversible decline. In 1956 a petroleum geologist named M. King Hubbert applied this concept to an analysis of the lower 48 states, and predicted a decline of production starting about 1970. He was derided at the time, but lower 48 USA oil production has been in decline since 1970. The phenomenon has been named the Hubbert Peak, and the production growth and decline curve is often referred to as a Hubbert Curve.

EnergyPulse

Oil headway will fail to meet demand by Adam Porter

During the next six years, global oil supplies will be constantly tight. Even with a minimum of demand growth and a series of fields ready on the day they are supposed to be, shortfalls will still occur.Negative capacity “What is worrying in itself is that after 2007 the number of projects of any sort really […]

Planet Under Pressure Videos

from the BBC

BBC

U.S. Natural Gas Production Continues to Decline

Article from Financialsense:

The bottom-line story for the natural gas sector remains the same: U.S. natural gas production is heading down, despite a huge increase in drilling activity.

Viewpoints: Powering the planet

According to the International Energy Agency the world will need almost 60% more energy in 2030 than in 2002. But is it possible to meet this growing demand without causing catastrophic damage to the environment? BBC News asked a range of experts how our ballooning thirst for energy can be catered for. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4000225.stm

Molecular Manufacturing vs. Peak Oil

Chris Phoenix from CRN (Centre for Responsible Nanotechnology) writes his views on why molecular manufacturing must be developed for a sucessful transition from an oil based economy.

Molecular Manufacturing vs. Peak Oil

Barrons: ”Dean of Energy Analysts” on Peak Oil

An admission of Peak Oil with gravitas. Maxwell speaks of three stages of economic response, the first of which is already passing (!) Subscription required. An alternative is available here.

Sandia, Stirling To Build Solar Dish Engine Power Plant

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories is joining forces with Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. (SES) of Phoenix to build and test six new solar dish-engine systems for electricity generation that will provide enough grid-ready solar electricity to power more than 40 homes. ScienceDaily

Witty Mike Davis article

Instead of working, which I should be doing, I have been skiving:

Check out this blackly humourous take on things:

Apocalypse Denial in America

Kellia Ramares reports on Peak Oil on Pacifica Station KPFA

In Brief: Kellia Ramares speaks with Colin campbell, Richard Heinberg, Dale Alan Pfeiffer, Julian Darley, Matt Simmons, and Ali Samsam Bakhtiari

In a groundbreaking radio broadcast, Kellia Ramares of Radio Internet Story Exchange speaks with an all star cast of peak oil realists on Pacific Station KPFA’s Noon show, The Living Room including Colin campbell, Richard Heinberg, Dale Alan Pfeiffer, Julian Darley, Matt Simmons, and Ali Samsam Bakhtiari.

Audio [48:58] | mp3
GPM

Pakistan to develop renewables

ISLAMABAD: Shahid Naeem, chief executive officer of US-based Access Group International (AGI), has informed Omar Ayub, minister of state for finance, on Monday that the group is planning to invest $1.2 billion in Pakistan in the energy sector over the next five years. In a meeting with the state minister, Mr Nadeem said that the […]

Tomorrow’s petrol is a gas

In front of US department of energy and industry leaders, Shell opened its first American hydrogen service station… Car and chemical manufacturers as well as governments are pumping money into hydrogen and fuel cell vehicle research and the infrastructure for a hydrogen economy. New interest in what is called “tomorrow’s petrol” follows President Bush’s December […]

Shell’s first US hydrogen station

What is overlooked, says Romm, is that hydrogen is an energy carrier, not an energy source. “You use a lot of fossil fuels at the front end to get to hydrogen at the back end. It’s discouraging for me as a clean energy advocate that people are putting claims out that aren’t based on reality.”

Guardian Unlimited

Oil Rises Most in 8 Weeks on Concern Over Low Fuel Supplies

Crude oil rose more than 3 percent, the biggest increase in eight weeks, as a decline in U.S. heating- oil inventories spurred concern that supplies of the fuel may be inadequate for winter. Heating-oil supplies fell 74,000 barrels to 48.4 million barrels in the week ended Nov. 5, the sixth-straight decrease, the department said. Stockpiles […]

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