Energy Theory
Deep Thought - Nov 13
New website for Prof. Al Bartlett
Fourth Shell Dialogues Webchat ”Communicating Sustainability”Scientific Community Called Upon To Resolve Debate On ‘Net Energy’ Once And For All
United States - Nov 12
Robert Rapier on Obama's Energy Policy: Listening When We Disagree
Why It’s Time for a ‘Green New Deal’
The National Academies Summit on America's Energy Future (online book)
Wiley Rein's Weinberg says Obama win marks resurgence of aggressive regulation (11/11/2008) (video and transcript)
Why does fungibility matter (and where did it go)?
Our ability to substitute with alternative sources of energy is a factor of how fungible energy really is--how easily we can bring alternative B to replace lost supply of energy A. This article discusses how the real world tends to intrude on fungibility of our various sources of energy and what this matters.
Here we go a 'blogging - Oct 23
On the Spot
Sustainable Energy Transition
Society's downward spiral must play out first
Speculation: Inept Idiots or Wise Fools
Earth as a magic pudding
Cornucopians - those who believe the Earth’s resources are boundless - have a clever mental trick to avoid acknowledging that the planet is finite. It is commonly called the “resource pyramid”. ... As resources begin to become scarce their price rises. The higher price now makes it economically viable to extract the substance from a less accessible and/or less concentrated source. Amazingly, the total amount of the substance present in this lower-grade resource is greater than in the original, most concentrated resource. ... The resource pyramid idea contains a hidden assumption - that energy is cheap and abundant. In fact, it is the price of energy that ultimately determines the base of the resource pyramid.
Deep thought - Oct 5
Worldchanging and the American future
Nashville's gas crisis: inside the Metro bunker? (satire)
Receding horizons for alternative energy supplies
Richard Leakey: the end of the world as we know it
The slow erosion of heart and soul
Implications of fossil fuel constraints on economic growth and global warming
On the edge of the abyss
The backdrop of a financial crash on Wall Street cast a shadow over this year’s Association for the Study of Peak Oil – USA conference in Sacramento in late September. Speakers talked of an ominous parallel between the financial crisis and another graver crisis in the making – the coming rapid decline of worldwide oil production, which has stalled after reaching an all-time high more than three years ago.
United Kingdom - Sept 24
Mayor wants to close Heathrow
British public 'unwilling' to pay for climate change bill
It needn't cost the earth
The net energy cliff
Charles Hall, the father of the energy return on investment (EROI) concept, once told me that our current society would probably not be able to function if the EROI for the entire society slipped below five. ... Hall estimates that the United States is currently running on an EROI of just under 40 to 1. This looks like a fairly substantial margin of safety over the 5 to 1 that might lead to societal breakdown. But worrisome developments in the oil, natural gas and coal fields may send us rushing toward that figure.
Peak Oil - September 2
A growing global power crisis looks to be greater economic and political danger than oil
ASPO Newsletter for September
The Archdruid nails it: Energy conservation, not efficiency, is key
Shocklets
Rep. Bartlett pursues lonely energy crusade
The Western Maryland Republican has given nearly 50 such speeches at the Capitol in the past three years, most of them variations on a theme: that a coming decline in petroleum production, coupled with growing demand for energy, will have a calamitous impact on the global economy. (Excerpts)
What my congressman does (and does not) know about energy
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain
Peak Oil - August 27
Predator-Prey Dynamics in Demand Destruction and Oil Prices
Heinberg: GM Pines for electric car
Traductions de John Michael Greer (French)
Looming energy crisis In Mexico stirs debate (audio)
The Economist’s Online Debate Series on solving the world’s energy crisis
Deep thought - Aug 24
EROEI - most important criterion for deciding how to meet energy needs?
The source of hope
David Holmgren and FutureScenarios (re-post)
Ghost Town & Land of Wolves (Chernobyl)
Economic growth mongering and its apologists
The Economist debates our world energy crisis
Starting tomorrow The Economist Online Debate Series is starting a two-week long online, Oxford-style debate on solving the world’s energy crisis. Readers are invited to participate.
Peak oil - Aug 12
"Energy Resources and Our Future" - Speech by Admiral Hyman Rickover in 1957
The future is now: the end of cheap oil
Peak oil, meet peak bandwidth
Richard Heinberg a-blog
- Another tax rebate?
- Net energy: What everyone needs to know
- Oil price falls! Peak oil a non-problem!