Energy Bulletin -

Sustainable Firewood: Recycling Atmospheric Carbon

woodwind — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:27:56 -0800

Wood is a renewable fuel because young trees grow up to replace those harvested for fuel. That’s a simple enough statement, but there is much more to consider when you look into the details.

Peak oil, prices, and supplies - Feb 8, updated Feb 9

kristinsponsler — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:50:57 -0800

-Does peak demand = peak supply?
-Branson warns that oil crunch is coming within five years
-Tony Hayward: BP's straight-talking chief on evolution not revolution
-Endless Oil: Peak Production vs. Oil Price

Beyond Copenhagen - Now what?

kristinsponsler — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:06:57 -0800

Are current corporate-dominated international institutions inadequate to the task of meeting the multiple planetary survival challenges they themselves have helped create?...Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute (postcarbon.org), talks about the factors contributing to the stalemate in the Copenhagen climate summit, the other 'game ending' challenges confronting the current economic system, and the bottom-up steps necessary to move to a post-carbon economy.

Peak Oil Review

kristinsponsler — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:38:16 -0800

A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-Sovereign debt and economic recovery
-Violence in Iraq
-Quote of the week
-Briefs

Characterizing the incalculable

kurtcobb — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:48:12 -0800

It is simply impossible to assign a clear, calculable probability to any scenario for climate change or future oil supplies. The best we can do is to characterize the incalculable. But, by knowing the range of presumed outcomes, we can start to characterize the effects and therefore gauge the probable severity of any particular outcome.

Entropy revisited

McPherson — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:01:03 -0800

One way of looking at our current set of predicaments is that we've been on a binge, consuming energy considerably faster than it can be captured and stored by Earth's ecosystems. While fossil fuels once appeared limitless (and still do to deniers of peak oil), and though we're literally bathed in energy (in the form of sunlight), the disappearance of the fossil-fuel storehouse accumulated over millions of years isn't something that can be replaced with anything nearly as convenient as fossil fuels.

ODAC Newsletter - Feb 5

Simone — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:13:28 -0800

In a busy week for energy policy, UK energy watchdog Ofgem finally acknowledged what has been obvious for years: that liberalized markets cannot deliver energy security in the era of carbon reduction and resource depletion.

Peak oil in Davos: Oh yes it is, oh no it isn’t.

Kjell Aleklett — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:01:02 -0800

The fact that nobody from ASPO was invited to discuss energy security in Davos shows that they are not interested in anyone bearing unpleasant news... Institutions and oil companies are assembling an explanation for Peak Oil that says that the resources exist but that the will to invest is lacking.

World Oil Capacity to Peak in 2010 Says Petrobras CEO

kristinsponsler — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:24:12 -0800

Mr. Gabrielli, the CEO of Petrobras, gave a presentation in December 2009 in which he shows world oil capacity, including biofuels, peaking in 2010 due to oil capacity additions from new projects being unable to offset world oil decline rates.

Energy strategies, or the lack thereof - Feb 4

kristinsponsler — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:27:13 -0800

-How long before the lights go out?
-Peak Oil Theory: implications for Australia’s strategic outlook and the ADF
-The Iraqi Oil Conundrum
-A New Clean Economy — With Old Sources of Energy
-Business as Usual: Hooked on Foreign Oil
-Stop the Green Tech Coup, Military Industry on the Offensive