subrealism (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Richard Heinberg at the Post Carbon Institute writes; King Henry waltzes in, announces that the bankers have gotten themselves into a bit of a bind as a result of their own greed and stupidity, and insists that each American taxpayer immediately take out a loan for over $2,500 so that he can distribute the funds secretly, with no oversight, to a bunch of financial wizards who typically...
Bill Totten's Weblog (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
by Richard Heinberg MuseLetter 196 (August 2008) This month's essay is another chapter from the retitled book-in-progress, Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis . Recent reports on global coal reserves, surveyed in previous chapters, generally point to the likelihood of supply limits appearing relatively soon - within the next two decades (a contrary view is represented solely...
3E Intelligence (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
... we should be placing the big deployment dollars right now .” On the Post-Carbon Institute blog, Richard Heinberg is even more critical. His article “ Delay and Fail ” cites energy guru Vaclav Smil (for me the most brilliant energy expert in the world - read his “ Energy at the Crossroads “): “ The technology exists only in the sense that its components have been demonstrated on a...
After Armageddon (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
by Richard Heinberg This month's issue is a compilation of several recent short writings. The last of these, a set of frequently asked questions about Peak Oil, is a work in progress that will appear in expanded form at www.postcarbon.org. Lessons from the Soil It's hard to learn much or do much about sustainability without getting your hands dirty. True, global problems of resource depletion...
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
... and group transportation, but to present about 45 minutes of a new two-hour documentary film by Richard Heinberg. He said those who believe the current fuel crisis can be solved by drilling for more oil fail to acknowledge three factors: that the oil supply is ultimately a limited one; that gas prices will ultimately drive individual consumers to find new technology; and that significant...
After Armageddon (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
by Richard Heinberg As oil crosses $100 on its way south, not even a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico and a statement from OPEC that the cartel will cut production by over 500,000 barrels per day seems capable of halting the bloodletting. In response, the Financial Post features an article titled “ Peak Oil peak ,” quoting this writer out of context; compare this with my commentary , which...
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
[via ]This video is an excellent overview, but it doesn’t cover everything. For instance, it’s oversimplistic — to say the least — when the creator(s) suggest that there are only two future scenarios for us to choose between.For a much more comprehensive overview of where we might end up in the future, see Heinberg’s book PowerDown. (I highly recommend that book, and others that Heinberg...
After Armageddon (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
By Richard Heinberg In just two years we’ve gone from a film documentary called Who Killed the Electric Car? to an article in Canada’s Globe and Mail titled Who Revived the Electric Car?. This is a deliciously ironic turn of events. Those of us who understand the perils of oil dependency have been advocating the electrification of transport for years: not only can an electric transport...
