Less than 6 years after an Australian senior energy bureaucrat announced in a Parliamentary hearing that new technologies can overcome peak oil (“if the price of eggs is high enough, even the…
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Matt Mushalik (MEAust, CPEng)
Sydney
Australian ABC TV falls into oil and climate trap of unconventional oil
First it was Alan Kohler getting his ideas from a Citi bank report on the death of peak oil, now it is Tony Jones accepting advice from peak oil denier Yergin that…
Proudly powered by oil shale
Science or fiction? Here, ABC TV star journalist A. Kohler is seen testing synthetic fuel produced from Australia’s vast deposits of kerogen (graphics: Ian McPherson) It is more than a month ago…
Desperate times: Trucking shale oil in North Dakota
How desperate the oil supply situation in the US has become after global crude oil production started to peak in 2005 can be seen from how cumbersome it is to produce and…
No number crunching in Alan Kohler opinion piece on premature peak oil death
This article is on Alan Kohler ‘s piece “The death of peak oil” http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-29/kohler-oil-reserves-shift-global-markets/3859118 Contents: (1) Too many peaks to handle (2) US shale oil production and projections (3) Tough structural transformations…
Australian government kicks own goals in Senate peak oil debate (peaky leaks part 3)
Read about the bizarre proceedings during the February 2012 budget estimate hearings in the Australian Senate. Capital Hill in Canberra seemed to be more remote than ever from the reality of oil…
Car addicted Sindney destroys bus ramp near rail hub as tollway debt increases 60 pct at least
This web-site continues to monitor the disconnect between toll-way expansions in Australia and global crude oil supplies. The latest peak-oil ignorant action in car-addicted Sydney is the demolition of a bus ramp…
Australian peak oil report ignored for urgent Sydney-Canberra rail upgrade (peaky leaks part2)
Propeller has stalled in flight, but rail development for Canberra hasn’t even taken off 3/2/2012 “The Nation’s transport boss has been caught up in a mid-air drama above Canberra with a Qantas…
M2 concession period extends into era of steep oil decline
What has been overlooked in Alan Jone’s 2GB campaign on the dumped BITRE report 117 http://ianmcpherson.com/blog/audio/jones_bitre_25-01-2012.mp3 is that concession periods of toll-ways extend far into the era of steep oil declines shown…
Ethanol blended E10 would take 14 years to replace ULP in Australia
On past trends of growing ethanol use in cars it would take 14 years to replace all unleaded petrol presently used in Australia. Any traffic growth, e.g. caused by the current ambitious…