Peak oil, prices, and supplies – Sept 15
-Oil giants zero in on untapped Greenland
-Norway cuts arctic barrel count
-IEA Raises 2009, 2010 Oil Demand Forecasts on Growth (Update2)
Natural Gas
Reflections on the Life of Norman Borlaug – Sept 14
-Norman Borlaug dies at 95; revolutionized grain agriculture and won Nobel Peace Prize
-Reflections on the Life of Norman Borlaug
-Nobel Prize winner, science pioneer, famine fighter Norman Borlaug, R.I.P.
-Norman Borlaug on the Food Crisis
-The Global Food Crisis: The End of Plenty
-Norman Borlaug Dead
The first peak oil recession: Interview with Steven Kopits
Steven Kopits, who runs the New York office of Douglas Westwood, was in Denver last week. He talked about his latest paper on peak oil and the economy with Steve Andrews and will share related remarks at the ASPO-USA conference next month. Steve popped a few questions:…
Nations & resources – Sept 11
-South Korea’s Hyundai Steel building ‘green mill’
-Is Resource Nationalism Back?
-A Power Station in Your Basement
Nabu, Nabucco, Nabukov
While Europe attempts to eke out some freedom from Russia’s gas monopoly, Russia tries to free itself from the “curse of plenty.”
ODAC Newsletter – Sep 4
A weekly update from a UK perspective.
Nations & resources – Sept 3
-World faces hi-tech crunch as China eyes ban on rare metal exports
-Ukraine, Russia PMs resolve gas dispute: Tymoshenko
-As hybrid cars gobble rare metals, shortage looms
-Iranian Media: Iran Ready to Negotiate
-Slow Boat to Rare Earth
-Peak Water
-Iowa’s future shouldn’t depend on fossil fuels
Burning Picassos for Heat
Burning natural gas to extract and process oil from the Canadian tar sands has been likened by one industry insider to burning Picassos for heat. But the bidding at the “Picassos for heat” auction may go even higher as those involved in tar sands and oil shale development push for nuclear power to fuel their projects.
Peak oil review – Aug 31
A weekly review including:
– Production and prices
– Droughts in Asia
– Quote of the Week
– Energy Stat of the Week
– Briefs
Enabling Wind, Sun To Be Our Main Power Supplies: Quest for Storage — “Holy Grail” of New Energy Economy — Nears Goal
For decades the “Holy Grail” of the New Energy Economy has been to find ways to store wind and solar energy. The answers are here, and they are much more plain and simple than we thought. Like Indiana Jones in his Last Crusade, we need to see the Grail that is right before our eyes. The means to enable solar and wind energy to serve as our primary energy supplies are at hand.
Peak oil review – Aug 24
A weekly review including:
– Production and prices
– China’s Coal
– Natural Gas in the US
– The UN Food Report
– Briefs
Natural Gas Scam and Folly Again
Top Inside-the-Beltway Democrats are trying to serve up a two-decades old fiasco again: touting natural gas as the “bridge fuel” for a renewable energy utopia. Fossil Fuels Policy Action looked at this in 1988 and rejected the idea’s environmental and energy-security premise as well as its ethics. Basically, this new “agenda,” as they call it, is the same scam as the late ’80s — it had its way, ran its course, and look where we are now.