Monthly Archives: September 2006
Crude Oil Market Turning Point
There are three choices for the market in crude oil after its recent steep falls. It can stay roughly around where it is now, $62. It can fall back down through the technical and software barriers that support it to new year lows or it can go higher once more. Perhaps very high. It all [...]
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Post-Oil Infrastructure Technology
Most schemes for a post-oil technology are based on the misconception that there will be an infrastructure, similar to that of the present day, which could support such future gadgetry. Modern equipment, however, is dependent on specific methods of manufacture, transportation, maintenance, and repair. In less abstract terms, this means machinery, motorized vehicles, and service [...]
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Cities of the Future
Back in the early 20th Century, when the cheap oil fiesta was just getting underway, and some major new technological innovation made its debut every month – cars, radio, movies, airplanes – there was no practical limit to what men of vision could imagine about the future city, though often their imaginings were ridiculous. [...]
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The Peak Oil Crisis
Events move quickly these days. Two months ago oil was north of $78 a barrel and, nationwide, gasoline was above to well above $3. The Middle East was threatening a conflagration and another exciting hurricane season was in the offing. Even the concept of peak oil was starting to get some scattered but serious attention [...]
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The Theory of Peak Oil
“None of us can go a little way with a theory,” wrote John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) in his book Essays Critical & Historical . “When it once possesses us, we are no longer our own masters. It makes us speak its words, and do violence to our nature.”
What is theory?
What an interesting quotation about [...]
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Peak Oil Revolution
Albert Einstein said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” He also said, “Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.” I spent the weekend with genius and with [...]
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Declining Energy Prices No Reason for Complacency
The short-term easing off of prices does not take the pressure off Congress to open ANWR and expand offshore drilling.
Original post by The Heritage Foundation – 2006-09-27
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If you build it, will they come?
As renewable energy developers look to exploit resources in deserts, on mountaintops and in offshore waters, the question of how to send the electricity produced from remote locations to the places where people live becomes more pressing. Platts Renewable Energy Report recently highlighted a US Department of Energy study that found that several areas [...]
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An Immoral Law: Congress Should Not Criminalize “Price Gouging” of Gasoline
Imposing criminal liability for raising prices in a competitive market is ludicrous.
Original post by The Heritage Foundation – 2006-09-15
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Here Comes Winter Gasoline
Now, for something that I think will be non-controversial, and hopefully somewhat educational. About this time every year, you will start seeing references in the media about the conversion to winter…
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What role for nanotechnology?
Nanotechnology still sounds to me like something from a Science Fiction movie, but technology that is able to alter the composition or functioning of materials at the nano–ie molecular– scale is already being deployed in the energy sector.
German chemicals group Degussa has been working on a new coating for wind turbines that uses nanotechnology to [...]
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Scientist says climate changing faster than predicted
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Australian Broadcasting Corporation: MARK COLVIN: Very few scientists now doubt that the earth’s climate is changing, but there’s still furious debate over what’s causing it and how fast it’s moving. Now one of America’s top scientists has not only attacked President Bush for failing to cut carbon dioxide emissions, but said we’re [...]
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Running out of Oil?