BLM Opens Doors for SW Solar Grand Plan
Just a year and a half after a breakthrough Solar Grand Plan study was published in the January 2008 Scientific American, the U.S. government has begun plans to implement major elements of such a Plan.
Natural Gas
Prices & supplies – June 29
The Coming Mystery Of The Missing Barrels Of Oil
Oil: What price can America afford?
European gas war looms as Ukraine seeks cash to pay Gazprom for July deliveries
Peak oil review – June 29
A weekly review including:
– Production & Prices
– In the Congress
– Briefs
Commentary: Interview with Charles T. Maxwell (Part 2 of 2)
“We’re not going to have to help the oil industry. They already have all the help they need. I wouldn’t take away what they have but I wouldn’t add to it.”(Charlie Maxwell is the life-long oil industry analyst viewed by Barrons’ magazine as their energy guru.)
Peak oil, prices, and supplies – June 26
Which Matters Most? The Size of the Tap or the Tank?
Peak oil: myth or reality?
German-language “Global Oil Briefing No.5” now online
ODAC Newsletter – June 26
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
A shale gas boom?
My sympathy lies with skeptics. As someone who has written extensively about peak oil, I’ve encountered the human proclivity to hype a situation far beyond any semblance to reality time and time again—the Jack #2 discovery in the Gulf of Mexico comes to mind. Nevertheless, I’m going to say the jury is still out on this one.
Peak oil news – June 22
A weekly review including:
– Production and Prices
– Iraq
– Natural Gas
– Briefs
Cap and trade: unexpected friend to gas industry
You can see it in the faces of those gathered to hear the latest news on the natural gas industry: Anxiety. Anger. Fear of losing everything they have. Frustration that there seems nothing anyone can do.
Peak oil, supplies & prices – June 20
Why we need the national academy of sciences to study peak oil
Peak flow rates, not peak oil?
The pitfalls of natural gas as the default climate change option
GM preparing for high oil prices: chief executive
ODAC Newsletter – June 19
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Food & agriculture – June 19
Urban Farming, a Bit Closer to the Sun
A food system without fossil fuels (Michael Bomford Interview) – audio
Philly’s fresh-food triumph: Nationally admired program opens supermarkets for underserved