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Renewable Energy, Winning by Default
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The World in a Box.jpg The one thing that may put renewable energies like solar power over the top in the future is not price, efficiency, or even the size of environmental footprints, but merely the fact that oil and gas reserves are becoming increasingly uncertain.16 hours ago -
Chris Nelder. logi Energy-China: The Vampire Squid of Commodities. Part Two
Hedge Fund Blogs From HedgeCo.Net —
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Outmaneuvering America Rodgers has no doubt that China understands peak oil and expects future supply disruptions, which is why it’s accumulating foreign assets and diversifying its import options. Peter Dea, the president of oil and gas exploration and production company Cirque Resources LP, made the same point ...19 hours ago -
A Uranium Shortage?
Entangled States —
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There are many people concerned right now about the continued ability of oil reserves to keep up with demand. Weve had a bit of a reprieve because of the global recession, but as the recession lessens around the world, demand for energy is increasing and oil prices are starting to rise again. A number of countries, ...22 hours ago -
The Renewables Gap (ASPO 2009)
The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future —
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Below is a summary of my presentation, The Renewables Gap, from the ASPO 2009 conference. The intent of my presentation was to highlight the political challenge of affecting a societal transition to renewable sources of energy. In particular, I focus on wind and solar, though it seems to me that the problem will be ...23 hours ago -
Peak Oil Vignette 2 – Buses
UrbanWorkbench —
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People used to walk for pleasure, now they walk because it is too expensive to drive anywhere that you could reasonably walk. We’d all hoped that public transit buses would be able to keep up with the growing demand from the newly carless, but in time, the buses just became another victim of the rising cost of ...1 day ago -
America’s Pending Collapse By Timothy V. Gatto
Dandelion Salad —
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By Timothy V. GattoFeatured WriterDandelion Saladliberalpro.blogspot.comNovember 20, 2009photo by Dandelion SaladThe truth that most people realize but can’t openly talk about is that America has seen better days and that the system of capitalism has long outlived its usefulness. The last part of that sentence, that ...1 day ago -
Americas Pending Collapse
LiberalPro —
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The truth that most people realize but can’t openly talk about is that America has seen better days and that the system of capitalism has long outlived its usefulness. The last part of that sentence, that capitalism has outlived its usefulness, is thoroughly the fault of the capitalists themselves. For many years ...1 day ago -
Chris Nelder, logi Energy-China: The Vampire Squid of Commodities, Part One
Hedge Fund Blogs From HedgeCo.Net —
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For my final report on the 2009 ASPO peak oil conference, I must address the world’s new prime mover of commodity demand: China. With flat-to-declining economic growth rates in most of the rest of the world, the Red Dragon has emerged as the dominant force driving global demand for natural resources. Adam ...1 day ago -
Drill Baby Drill
Private Mars Rocket —
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So, jaylake points me to an interesting article by Thomas Friedman . Now, Friedman has a tendency to say things that sound profound but really arent. However, in this case, hes saying something that actually is profound. You dont have to believe in global warming to support a carbon tax. Now, a carbon ...1 day ago -
Peak Oil Files: Why Is Saudi Aramco Building Supercomputers?
WSJ.com: Environmental Capital —
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Saudi Aramco is building superfast supercomputers to find more oil. Does that mean the peak oil advocates are right?1 day ago -
Modern Life Is Probably Screwed by Peak Oil, But It’s Not Too Late to Avoid Mass Starvation
Progressive News Daily —
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By George Monbiot Monbiot.com I don’t know when global oil supplies will start to decline. I do know that another resource has already peaked and gone into freefall: the credibility of the body that’s meant to assess them. Last week two whistleblowers from the International Energy Agency alleged that it has ...1 day ago -
Taking of Life
Anarchoblogs —
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Deer hunting is in full swing these days. Last weekend my brother and uncle both shot deer. The taking of life is something Ive been thinking about lately. A month ago I wrote about the two dogs I had to kill. Ive thought about them off and on since that day and last weekend went to see their decaying bodies where I ...1 day ago -
Boone Pickens Sees Oil At $100 Next Year, $300 In 10 Years
Investorazzi.com —
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Last time Investorazzi heard , legendary oil investor T. Boone Pickens, Jr., said crude oil prices were going to be around $75 a barrel by the end of 2009 and $85 by the end of 2010. However, Pickens added that should a global economic recovery take place, we cold see $90 to $100 for a barrel of oil next year. Well, ...1 day ago -
Vintage Japan: Tiger Oil Advertising Sign
Kurashi - News From Japan —
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This morning I was (rudely) awakened by the call of the local gasolin truck, making his rounds for the benefits of some of my fossile fuel-burning neighbours. He has a loud sound track, on his small truck, playing a cheesy clarinet tune, and a young lady announcing, endlessly and cheerfully so, on a tape loop: "Tooyu ...2 days ago -
2010 Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid sports car Video TNR.v, CZX.v, WLC.v, LI.v, RM.v, SQM, FMC, ROC, NSANY, TTM, TM, F, BYDDY, RNO, BMW, DAI, GOOG, RIMM,
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" Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Electric vehicles should provide three-fourths of U.S. driving needs by 2040, with oil imports effectively “reduced to zero,” executives from companies including Nissan Motor Co. , PG&E Corp. and FedEx Corp . said." We have a very strong ...2 days ago -
Lithium and REE: Tesla Model S Video: A greener automotive future TNR.v, CZX.v, WLC.v, Li.v, RM.v, SQM, ROC, FMC, AVL.to, RES.v, QUC.v, NSANY, F, RNO,
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" 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 -
The Future of Agriculture : Genetics and the Limits of Oil
The Rag Blog —
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Agriculture, genetics and a sustainable future......the oil requirement for U.S. food production and transportation will no doubt loom as a much bigger factor, forcing a restructuring of the food industry.By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / November 18, 2009An old friend, Val Liveoak, posting on a Rag-junkie list, drew my ...2 days ago -
Canadas Heartland - Political Peak Oils First Refuge
ECO-CAN News —
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The concept of “political peak oil” (an obscure, unpleasant term I admit) has been floating around under that name or as “geopolitical peak” (even worse) for years. Large oil companies based in the US, and UK, and France - known as the ‘oil majors’ - cumulatively control, at most, 15 to 20% of proven ...2 days ago -
Preparedness and Possibiilities
UrbanWorkbench —
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The media madness and hype has whirled around the topics of peak oil and peak energy – there have been the deniers, and apparently any argument that goes against the mainstream business as usual case needs to have it’s fair share of deniers. More power to them, freedom of speech and all that. But what baffles ...3 days ago -
Too fearful to publicise peak oil reality
The Intelligence Daily —
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