Archive for the 'Geopolitics & resource wars' Category

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

November 29th, 2009 | Category: Wind, Geopolitics & resource wars, Exploration, Arctic oil, Solar, Energy infrastructure, Renewable energy, Electricity, Energy demand, Conventional oil, Deep water oil, Latin America, OPEC, Russia & Central Asia, Europe, Asia South and East, Petrodollars & US dollar, Shale oil, Africa, Privatisation & globalisation, Global, Energy Policy, Politics, Oil, Human Ecology & Behaviour, Economics, Transport, Biofuels, Climate, Hydrogen & Fuel Cells, Energy Companies, Technology, North America, Solutions, Environment & sustainablity, Industry, Consumerism, Middle East, Coal, Tar Sands, News - General

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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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...

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Peak oil - Feb 29

February 29th, 2008 | Category: Energy literacy, Geopolitics & resource wars, Oil, Transport, Hydrogen & Fuel Cells, News - General

Rep. Bartlett delivers his 38th special order speech on peak oil (video)
Bartlett: Declining oil supply means war is ‘fairly probable'
BMW: peak oil in 2025, solution = hydrogen

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