Peak Oil

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• Electric catrs - Design Electric

  
  Sufiy. — Authority: 130
  WallPaper Nissan design Cars by Nargess Shahmanesh Banks "The motoring world is moving slowly but surely towards electric vehicles. Right now, however, only a handful of major manufacturers have stuck their head above the parapet and pledged their future allegiance to sparks rather than fossil fuels. ...
  5 hours ago

• Energy Demand and Peak Oil: Global Economy With an Uncertain Future

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 502
  As the keynote speaker at the Singapore Energy Lecture, Dr. Daniel Yergin was toeing his usual line of optimism on the subject of oil and energy.  As the Founder and Chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associate ( CERA ), Dr. Yergin has a long career in the energy industry, though one some challenge ...
  5 hours ago

• Lithium and REE: South Korea to invest $259 mln in rare metals by 2018 TNR.v, CZX.v, WLC.v, LI.v, RM.v, CLQ.v, SQM, FMC, ROC, AVL.to, RES.v, QUC.v, F

  
  Sufiy. — Authority: 130
  Everybody would like to secure supply of Lithium and REE. Hong Kong 5th REE conference was all about China and its place in global supply chain of REE - nobody knows for sure how much do they have available now and there are some estimations that starting from 2014 they will consume all their production of REE. ...
  9 hours ago

• ZDNET: Peak oil panic? Dubai or not Dubai?

  
  The Intelligence Daily — Authority: 498
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article
  15 hours ago

• Peak Oil Decision Making

  
  UrbanWorkbench — Authority: 120
  “Every decision made in any level of government should aim to reduce the use of fossil fuels and energy in general, rather than increase them”. Would it even be possible to implement and follow a policy such as this? It seems that whatever we do these days, it involves a lot of money, equipment, and ...
  16 hours ago

• Talking point: "The USA has plenty of oil"

  
  Badtux the Snarky Penguin — Authority: 477
  Right-wing morons are quick to say that "we dont need Saudi oil, the U.S. has plenty of oil, but the environmentalists wont let oil companies drill for it!" As usual, the right-wing morons are pulling shit out of their ass. Reality is entirely different.Now, first a disclaimer here. I helped develop some of the ...
  1 day ago

• TNR Gold/International Lithium Reports Significant Rare Metal Mineralization and Extends Lithium Anomaly 1.1 Kms-Mavis Lake, Ont TNR.v, CZX.v, WLC.v,

  
  Sufiy. — Authority: 130
  " With expanded markets application for Lithium based storage systems, interest in investment world is coming back to Lithium plays and upcoming Copenhagen Climate Change conference could bring a catalyst to the alternative energy sector as a tangible investment theme of 21st century." ...
  1 day ago

• Lithium: Ener1 To Develop Utility Scale Lithium-ion Energy Storage For US govt Smart Grid program TNR.v, HEV, AONE, CZX.v, WLC.v, RM.v, LI.v, SQM,

  
  Sufiy. — Authority: 130
  Ener1 is very active in electric cars batteries systems and with this move into Utility energy systems company is tapping into 1 billion plus market according to some reports . It is very encouraging to see migration in Chemistry choices into Lithium based solutions in utility energy storage systems now as well. ...
  1 day ago

• The Annual Unbrainwashed Anti-Holiday Rant

  
  unbrainwashed — Authority: 119
  I really have come to loathe this time of year. Of course, I mean the holiday season, which starts officially tomorrow, although some radio stations have been playing Christmas music since Halloween, which means that millions of innocent people have had to endure that one person who insists on listening to Christmas ...
  1 day ago

• Climate action without farming action? No way.

  
  Sheepdrove's Weblog — Authority: 116
  “Unless we are successful in tackling climate change, we won’t be able to feed the world’s growing population, however we farm. This report shows that agriculture can reduce greenhouse gas emissions while producing food sustainably.” Patrick Holden, Soil Association director ‘Organic farming may counter ...
  1 day ago

• Lithium and REE: Tesla may build Model S electric car in California TNR.v, CZX.v, WLC.v, RM.v, LI.v, SQM, ROC, FMC, AVL.v, RES.v, QUC.v, F, DAI, BYDDY

  
  Sufiy. — Authority: 130
  " Now all that effort of DOE to finance alternative energy and, particularly, transportation in the form of electric cars with lithium batteries gains a new meaning - Electric cars can be the only economic and fast deployable alternative to oil based fuels. Rising oil prices will make this transformation ...
  2 days ago

• Rob Hopkins at TED

  
  Permaculture & Regenerative Design News — Authority: 117
  Rob Hopkins reminds us that the oil our world depends on is steadily running out. He proposes a unique solution to this problem -- the Transition response, where we prepare ourselves for life without oil and sacrifice our luxuries to build systems and communities that are completely independent of fossil fuels. ...
  2 days ago

• TNR Gold / International Lithium is on Jay Taylors Watch List TNR.v, CZX.v, MAI.v, SQM, FMC, ROC, WLC.v, RM.v, LI.v, CLQ.v, AVL.to, RES.v, QUC.v, TTM

  
  Sufiy. — Authority: 130
  After San Francisco Hard Asset Conference TNR Gold and International Lithium have gained attention of Jay Taylor - "one of the most respected, independent analysts in the North American mining and energy sectors." Company is building credibility and momentum in delivering its story to the market place. Jays ...
  2 days ago

• Conclusion? - Consume MUCH Less

  
  Permaculture & Regenerative Design News — Authority: 117
  ARRESTING NEW THINK TANK STUDY CONCLUDES: NO COMBINATION OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SYSTEMS CAN REPLACE FOSSIL FUELS Santa Rosa, CA (13. November 2009) An alarming new study jointly released by two prominent California-based environmental/economic think tanks, concludes that unrelenting energy limits, even among ...
  2 days ago

• Sustainable Las Vegas

  
  Scrutiny Hooligans — Authority: 473
  I was recently on the floor of the Luxor walking in between craps and blackjack tables when I seemed to have gotten the most absurd idea in my head: Sustainable Las Vegas.  I thought about whether there might be an organization advocating for a more sustainable way of doing things in the Sin City.  But the [...]
  2 days ago

• If Nothing Else, Save Farming: by George Monbiot

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  It’s probably too late to prepare for peak oil, but we can at least try to salvage food production. - According to farm scientists at Cornell University, cultivating one hectare of maize in the United States requires 40 litres of petrol and 75 litres of diesel(3). The amazing productivity of modern farm labor has ...
  3 days ago

• How the financial “Big Players” gained their power

  
  In These New Times — Authority: 138
  Not Sylvia NightAlethoNews23rd November, 2009The international financial elites wield enormous power over governments both in developing and developed industrial countries.Legislation in many parliaments favors large corporations and puts ordinary citizens and small businesses at a disadvantage. Wealth is being ...
  3 days ago

• Looking Back at Peak Global Production of...Gold

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 541
  Yesterday the President of the largest gold mining and production company, Barrick Gold , noted that after ten years of declining production it is time to recognize that the world has seen the peak in gold production. To maintain production ore is being mined with increasingly less gold in it. (The grade of the ore, ...
  3 days ago

• 25, 5, and 2: Three Great Reasons Not to Buy a Hummer

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 143
  This evening I watched an extraordinary documentary titled  A Crude Awakening (which can be found at Amazon here ), and in the film three numbers jumped out at me: 25 5 2 And what do these numbers represent? 25 is the percentage of the world’s annual oil production that Americans consume 5 is the US ...
  3 days ago

• Geologist Campbell: IEA Inflates Oil Supply Data; Peak Oil Came in 2008

  
  The Intelligence Daily — Authority: 498
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article
  4 days ago

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