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Power, and where it comes from - Mar 3

March 03rd, 2010 | Category: Energy literacy, Environment & sustainablity, Renewable energy, Energy demand, Media & persuasion, Solutions, North America, Energy Policy, Hydrogen & Fuel Cells, Coal, Natural gas, Industry, News - General

-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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Job Losses Push Need for Energy Bill

February 10th, 2010 | Category: Solar, Tidal, Nuclear, Geothermal, Energy infrastructure, Wind, Hydro, Solar thermal, Wave, Photovoltaic, Ocean thermal, Ocean energy, Electricity, Renewable energy, Economics, Energy Policy, Hydrogen & Fuel Cells, Climate, Biofuels, Politics, Biomass, Environment & sustainablity, Solutions, North America, Natural gas, News - General

Millions of job losses are pushing the U.S. Senate to consider a Jobs and Energy bill, even though Cap and Trade appears to be on life support. What are Five Key Measures that must be in a new Bill to avoid being a "half-ass..d" effort? (term from Sen. Lindsey Graham descrbing limited climate bill)

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Throwing our energy at impossible dreams…

December 16th, 2009 | Category: Health, Food & agriculture, Deep water oil, Hydro, Liquid natural gas, Ocean energy, Methane hydrates, Conventional oil, Condensates & NG liquids, Geopolitics & resource wars, Wind, Media & persuasion, Exploration, Community, Arctic oil, Ocean thermal, Other resource depletion, Military, Education, New currencies, Political movements, Water, Waste, OPEC, Wave, Petrodollars & US dollar, Overshoot, Photovoltaic, Population, Solar thermal, Shale oil, Tidal, Solar, Human Ecology & Behaviour, Oil, Biomass, Energy Companies, Coal, Technology, Politics, Energy Policy, Climate, Biofuels, Hydrogen & Fuel Cells, Transport, Economics, Housing & Urban Design, Heavy Oil, Tar Sands, Electricity, Renewable energy, Energy demand, Energy infrastructure, Nuclear, Geothermal, Energy literacy, Privatisation & globalisation, Consumerism, Natural gas, Industry, Solutions, Global, Environment & sustainablity, News - General

"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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ODAC Newsletter - Sept 18

September 18th, 2009 | Category: Renewable energy, Global, Energy demand, Geopolitics & resource wars, Exploration, Media & persuasion, Environment & sustainablity, Natural gas, Transport, Hydrogen & Fuel Cells, Economics, Energy Policy, Energy Companies, Oil, News - General

This week saw further oil discoveries in the Santos Basin and off the coast of Ghana, extending a run of sizeable finds in recent weeks. Following much breathless reporting of such discoveries, it was good to them put into context by solid analysis from Morgan Stanley and Bank Macquarie...