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Review: Transport Revolutions by Richard Gilbert and Anthony Perl

Transport Revolutions presents an ambitious vision of a world, 15 years from now, that is well on its way to kicking oil and being run on renewably produced electricity. The book’s authors, internationally recognized transport policy experts Richard Gilbert and Anthony Perl, readily acknowledge the enormity of this challenge, with transport worldwide currently 95 percent dependent on oil.

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Power, and where it comes from - Mar 3

-Environmentalists question coal's place in Obama policy
-The Dirty Truth Behind Clean Coal
-Parsing fact from fiction with the Bloom Energy box

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Throwing our energy at impossible dreams…

"as mankind proceeded to get bigger and bigger we silently crossed a threshold"

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Peak Oil: The Eventual End of the Oil Age

We cannot be lulled into a false sense of security: though oil prices have declined from their historic highs, there is little doubt that peak oil is real. I devoted my Master's project to researching peak oil and found strong evidence in support of the theory. Please feel free to circulate this academic document as a primer on peak oil.

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Resources and anthropocentrism

Evolution demands short-term thinking focused on individual survival. Most attempts to overcome our evolutionarily hardwired absorption with self are selected against. The Overman is dead, killed by a high-fat diet and unwillingness to exercise. Reflexively, we follow him into the grave.

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Energy limits to growth: integrating energy sources - part III

A process for designing the energy system to meet society's future needs must start by recognizing the practical limits and potentials of the available energy sources. (Significant article -BA)

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Australia report on future of transport fuels - July 11

Peak oil: petrol to reach $8 a litre
Fuel for thought - CSIRO's report on the future of transport fuels
ASPO-Australia's response to CSIRO report
Petrol report a wake-up call: environmentalists

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