Conventional oil production on land is declining across the nation—but there are great hopes for tight oil, enhanced recovery, and deepwater
“Ice Shield” Experiment Aims to Cool Mongolian City
Plan aims to boost natural river ice to combat warming temperatures
‘The Quest’ Questioned
World-famous energy historian and analyst Daniel Yergin attempts to shoot down the idea of peak oil—but his arguments are full of errors, fallacies, and biases
“The Quest” Questioned #5: Peak Oil = Running Out of Oil?
The idea of peak oil is not that the world will soon run out of oil, but that it will, at some point, reach a maximum and then gradually decline
Oil Man: Chroniques du début de la fin du pétrole
For non-francophones, it’s the chronicles of the beginning of the end of oil, a blog on Le Monde’s website
Solar Industry “Darwinism” Weeding Out Weaker Companies
Solar panel manufacturer gets raided by the FBI, Iran officially becomes a nuclear-powered country, and scientists plan a ghost town for research
The Climate Post: Worldwide Energy Shortages Triggered by Drought, Subsidies
Plagues of jellyfish, stimulated in part by climate change, clogged up power plants, and China’s coal bonanza has had a cooling effect (for the short term)
The Climate Post: Ailing Economies Push Richer Countries to Tap Emergency Oil Reserves
Natural gas fracking may be a “Ponzi scheme,” and U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq spend $20 billion a year on air conditioning
Drip, drip, drip—the sound of emergency oil hitting the market
The International Energy Agency announced it will tap into emergency stocks of oil to make up for the loss of Libyan oil
The Climate Post: The World has Passed Peak Oil, says Top Economist
In other news, renewables hit bottlenecks, feed-in tariffs for clean energy get choked by austerity measures, and the “Battle of the Buildings” begins
