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Richard Heinberg, co-editor of The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, talks about what was behind recent price spikes in oil production and the effect of those spikes on the US economy.
2 Comments on "Richard Heinberg talks about planning for peak oil"
KenZ300 on Sun, 8th Aug 2010 11:15 am
The world is developing biofuel alternatives to oil.
Can we expand biofuel development fast enough to offset the expanded use of fuel by China and India?
timson on Sun, 8th Aug 2010 6:50 pm
short-term promises of biofuel is one of the biggest fairytails. Netto energy capacity of biofuels (output minus fossil input) is a joke. If we have to chose a path to go by, investing tons of money in how to store electricity would be the best thing to do. Converting kinetic or potential energy into electricity is very easy. Storing it is another thing but much more promising than the bio-fuel fairytail