Here’s a lecture on global climate change and peak oil by British geologist and author Dr. Jeremy Leggett. If you want to know why we need an aggressive policy that curtails the burning of fossil fuels, and you want to …
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Climate Change and Peak Oil
Tagged with: burning fossil fuels, Dr. Jeremy Leggett, global climate change, global warming, peak oil
Robert Newman’s “A History of Oil”
It’s been at least a year since I recommended this fabulous combination of education and entertainment, in which British comedian/historian Robert Newman presents “A History of Oil. Please do yourself a favor and check it out. Then do us ALL …
BP, Peak Oil and Climate Change
I come across several articles each day that cause me to adjust my position on where we’re going as a civilization. Here’s one on BP, peak oil, and climate change that offers an interesting nuance, concluding with the following: As …
Tagged with: aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, BP, global climate change, global warming, Naomi Klein, peak oil
Peak Oil
The oil industry faces numerous battles on several different fronts (thus it’s a good thing for them and their shareholders that they have more money than God to fight them). One such battle is peak oil, the concept that the …
Tagged with: American Petroleum Institute, API, BusinessWeek, Citigroup, Ford Excursion, oil companies, oil industry, peak oil
When Politics Gets in the Way of Sane Energy Policy
I suppose I should have seen this coming, but the traditional energy industry, apparently starting to feel the heat, has recently ratcheted up the volume of its ongoing public relations efforts against the renewables industry. I had a wonderful conversation …
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PBS’s “Electric Nation”
The PBS special “Electric Nation” is a reasonably fair-minded and certainly non-hysterical treatment of the various modes of how we in the U.S. generate electricity. Personally, had I written the show, I would have been quite a bit more hysterical, …
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion — Good Example of a Stalled Technology
Here’s a piece in The Economist on ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) that points out the sad truth about the development of alternative energy technologies, i.e., that interest is strong when oil is expensive, but wanes to zero when oil …
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Free Report: How Sustainable Is Our Way of Life?
Soon we’ll publish another in our continuing series of free reports in which we aspire to provide an understanding of the most important trends that face civilization today. Based on a survey conducted in January 2012, we attempt to answer …
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National Security, Environmental Damage, Lung Disease, and Peak Oil
Readers may be interested in the conversation Glenn Doty and I are having on electric vehicles, as comments to my piece: Lateral Power, Distributed Generation, and the Third Industrial Revolution. Here’s another question for Glenn (and anyone else who would …
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The U.S. Has a Responsibility At This Point In History
Bill Moore, editor of EVWorld.com has written a splendid article on the failure of certain of the early electric vehicle companies, in which he points out: Breaking into the automotive business can be relatively easy; making a success of it …
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Tagged with: alternative energy, burgeoning urban/consumer populations globally, clean energy, countless dead and wounded, crippling debt, ecological disasters, global climate change, global warming, green energy, healthcare, lung disease, national security, ocean acidification, peak oil, Renewable Energy, responsibility at this time and place in history, skyrocketing debt, terrorism, – war we can't afford
