Archive for the 'Condensates & NG liquids' Category

Review: Transport Revolutions by Richard Gilbert and Anthony Perl

August 19th, 2010 | Category: Electricity, Global, Environment & sustainablity, Energy demand, Media & persuasion, Liquid natural gas, Condensates & NG liquids, Solutions, Natural gas, Energy Policy, Transport, Hydrogen & Fuel Cells, Oil, Human Ecology & Behaviour, Coal, Technology, News - General

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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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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Resources and anthropocentrism

October 12th, 2009 | Category: Food & agriculture, Health, Hydro, Liquid natural gas, Deep water oil, Conventional oil, Arctic oil, Community, Condensates & NG liquids, Methane hydrates, Ocean energy, Population, Shale oil, Solar thermal, Wave, Photovoltaic, Petrodollars & US dollar, Ocean thermal, Other resource depletion, Overshoot, Wind, Tidal, Human Ecology & Behaviour, Biomass, Coal, Heavy Oil, Oil, Politics, Biofuels, Hydrogen & Fuel Cells, Economics, Tar Sands, Natural gas, Geothermal, Nuclear, Solar, Energy demand, Renewable energy, Consumerism, Environment & sustainablity, Energy literacy, News - General

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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