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UK energy minister will hold summit to calm rising fears over peak oil

Staff, Guardian (UK)

Lord Hunt calls UK industrialists together to discuss government response to any early onset of decline in global oil production. (excerpt)

archived March 21, 2010
	

The net energy of pre-industrial agriculture

Stuart Staniford, Early Warning

The net energy of pre-industrial agriculture, taken as a whole energy-gathering system, must have been low, with EROEI probably on the order of 1.1-1.6 depending on place and time.

archived March 20, 2010
	

It's time to deal with Peak Oil

Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute

The "Peak Oil" concept -- that the world’s petroleum-production rate will soon reach its maximum and commence an inevitable decline, with negative economic consequences — has been around in scientifically articulated form at least since 1998; long enough to see it confirmed in significant ways.

archived March 19, 2010
	

ODAC Newsletter - Mar 19

Staff, Oil Depletion Analysis Centre

OPEC ministers meeting in Vienna this week caused no surprises in deciding to keep production quotas unchanged. Saudi oil minister Ali Al-Naimi described current prices as "beautiful". Indeed as the group met the oil price rose to $82/barrel, close to its 2010 high despite only 53% compliance by OPEC to its quotas and low US demand.

archived March 19, 2010
	

Post Carbon Exchange #1: Richard Heinberg & Lester Brown (transcript added)
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Richard Heinberg and Lester Brown, Post Carbon Institute

In this premier Post Carbon Exchange, Post Carbon Institute Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg talks with Lester Brown, Founder of the Earth Policy Institute, about hopeful developments in alternative energy, as well as the importance of Brown's updated path toward a sustainable future, "Plan B 4.0".

archived March 16, 2010
	

Petroleum Demand Lessons from the Late 1970s

Kevin Rietmann, The Oil Drum

A collapse in demand for petroleum products happened in the late 1970s and early 1980s. JD, proprietor of the blog Peak Oil Debunked, examined this briefly in this 2007 post about what he termed ”The Big Glitch”...

archived March 19, 2010
	

A Conversation About Energy with Howard Lindzon

Chris Nelder, Getreallist

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to do a freewheeling, videotaped chat with StockTwits founder Howard Lindzon on the present and future realities of energy...Topics included peak oil, the end of economic growth, reversing globalization, oil prices, alternatives, and lots of other topics.

archived March 19, 2010
	

Peak oil, prices and supplies - Mar 18

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Money spent on tar sands projects could decarbonise western economies
-China's oil demand increase 'astonishing', says IEA
-OPEC sticks to its guns, demand rising

archived March 18, 2010
	

Where Dark Green Meets Cleantech (Or, Beyond Shades of Green)

Lakis Polycarpou, City of the Future

A little while ago, Alex Steffen of World Changing offered a critique of the permaculture-inspired Transition Towns initiative--a grass-roots, peak oil/climate change adaptation movement that has gone viral around the world in the past three years . . . Steffen would describe these people as “dark greens,” a brand of environmentalist who emphasizes local community action but can tend toward collapse-thinking or doomerism.

archived March 18, 2010
	

Joint Operating Environment 2010: Oil Supply Concerns (review)

Rick Munroe, Energy Bulletin

The United States Joint Forces Command regularly (about every two years) issues its “perspective on future trends, shocks, contexts and implications for… the national security field.”...Amid the multitude of security threats, energy has moved rapidly to the forefront, and it is the oil supply issue which is the focus of this review.

archived March 18, 2010

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