peak energy in the news:
Energy Bulletin survey results
Thanks to all who took the time to take part in our recent survey. We promised you a summary of the results...and we like to keep our promises!
Peak oil, prices, and supplies - Dec 23
-OPEC leaves oil production unchanged
-EIA Energy Outlook 2010 Reference Case Projects Moderate Growth in US Energy Consumption, Greater Use of Renewables, and Reduced Oil and Natural Gas Imports
-Iraq will double exports to China to satisfy thirst for oil
Peak oil and the psychology of work
This is a preliminary attempt to explore the relationship between the current predicament facing humanity arising out of an exploding population facing planetary resource limitations, in other words known as overshoot, and the psychology of work inherent in the human species.
The madness of Rome
If you happen to be one of those techno-optimists who believe that our culture can transition to a future powered by benign alternatives by using coal or unconventional carbon-based fuels, you just might want to consider the damage caused by the extraction of these resources...
Oil, Economics, and Politics–a tangled web of consequences
It will come as little surprise to most readers that the world is near to, or past, peak world oil production. Petroleum is so essential to the economics of transportation that many believe when oil peaks, the global economy must also shrink in terms of the total output of goods, even as the population increases. Most who study peak oil and accept the findings of the Hirsch Report do not expect a lasting economic recovery, likely for decades.
Trolley canal boats
For many centuries, canal boats were propelled by men, horses or mules on the towpath beside the water. Before diesel power took over, engineers developed several interesting methods powered by electricity: trolleyboats, floating funiculars and electric mules. Many of these ecological solutions could be applied today instead of diesel engines.
Managing the Peak Fossil Fuel Transition: EROI and EIRR
Current renewable energy technologies must be adopted in conjunction with aggressive Smart Growth and Efficiency if we hope to continue our current standard of living and complex society with diminished reliance on fossil fuels. These strategies have the additional advantage that they can work without large technological breakthroughs.
Iran - disputed borders, nuclear intentions, and protest - Dec 22
-West should allow Iran to solve its own problems, says opposition leader
-Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says US fabricated nuclear documents
-Iran rejects nuclear trigger claim
-Iran calls for specifying Iraq border areas
Oilwatch Monthly December 2009
...Conventional crude production - Latest figures from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) show that crude oil production including lease condensates increased by 261,000 b/d from August to September 2009, resulting in total production of crude oil including lease condensates of 72.59 million b/d...
Project for Revolution in Philadelphia
I'm sitting before a photograph of the completion of the transcontinental railroad--140 years ago this May, in 1869. The driving of the golden spike poetically combined the symbolic with the hard, physical world--an event that should have carried forth well into this century. Instead, we were interrupted and led astray by oil, and the automobile.



