Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
John Woolfolk State energy officials cleared the way for one of the largest new power plants to be built in California since electricity deregulation with approval Wednesday of a power plant near Tracy that will produce enough energy for 1,000 homes.
Asian stock markets were mostly lower Wednesday amid continuing concerns about high oil prices and the impact this could have on the global economy.
“Ghawar is dying.” Could those three simple words signal the beginning of the end for the industrialized human civilization on Planet Earth?
A global-scale energy crisis looms ahead, according to Nobel laureate Richard E. Smalley, who said that nanotechnology will figure centrally in providing technological solutions.
The realization that modern industrial society is approaching the peak in available net energy to fuel the economy is a powerful shock to one’s entire belief system.
FTW Science Editor Dale Allen Pfeiffer sets out a detailed picture of the climate change issue and its paramount importance. Part two will consider the dreadful convergence of global climate change and the peak of global oil production.
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A study of the impact on China’s economy of an oil price shock ($95 per barrel) published in a Rand Corporation report. See link for full text.
An interesting email discussion between Richard Duncan and Richard Heinberg concerning Duncan’s Olduvai Theory of industrial collapse.
Children in modern day hunter-gatherer societies consume more calories than they produce, accumulating an enormous debt that peaks at age 20.
Fuel ethanol distilled from crops such as corn and rapeseed could be the solution for countries seeking an outlet for huge agricultural surpluses.
Sustainable development based on prevailing patterns of resource use is not even theoretically conceivable.
