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Japanese meltdown highlights energy dilemma as peak oil enters hot phase
Posted on March 15, 2011 | No CommentsIn a frightening coincidence Fukushima reactors face – in the best case scenario – years of decommissioning while Saudi troops enter Bahrain, marking the start of fights between Shia and […] -
WikiLeaks cable from Riyadh implied Saudis could pump only 9.8 mb/d in 2011
Posted on March 2, 2011 | No CommentsCan Saudi Arabia step in to replace oil production lost in Libya? When the Guardian published Wiki leaks cables from the US embassy in Riyadh in early February 2011 it […] -
What if unrest in North Africa, ME impacts on oil exports?
Posted on February 18, 2011 | No CommentsIt is only a matter of time until the unrest in North Africa and the Middle East impacts on oil supplies as it did in the last years of the […] -
Sydney’s suburban grid too weak for growth
Posted on February 2, 2011 | No CommentsThere was a very dirty power cut in one of Sydney’s suburbs due to overload of the grid during a hot summer evening around 8:25 pm when all air-conditioners were […] -
2 oil exporters win soccer games for 2018 and 2022
Posted on December 4, 2010 | No CommentsAt the time of the world cup soccer games in 2018 and 2022 the world will be in an oil and general energy crisis the magnitude of which will not […] -
Fly, but leave your car at home
Posted on December 2, 2010 | No CommentsUnder the new policies scenario in the IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2010, chapter 3 contains a graph showing aviation oil consumption going up from a current 4.95 mb/d to 7.75 […] -
Sydney builds huge sustainable basement car park in Darling Harbour prone to flooding by sea level rise
Posted on November 18, 2010 | No CommentsThe string of peak oil and global warming ignorant decisions of the NSW government shortly before elections in March 2011 is endless. On the same day the IEA released its […] -
Diesel shortages in China
Posted on November 17, 2010 | No CommentsIn a sign of things to come, a Chinese truck driver loaded 2 trucks on top of his truck, making it a triple decker truck, in order to save on […] -
Megaprojects Increments: next oil crunch 2012
Posted on October 22, 2010 | No CommentsIn this 2nd article on the ASPO 2010 conference we have a look at Chris Skrebowski’s graphs http://www.optioninvestor.com/page/oin/2009eoy/10-8-2010_aspousa_PeakOilPicture_Skrebowski_C.pdf and his video http://tv.peak-oil.org/chris-skrebowski-the-peak-oil-picture/ in which he uses a list of oil […] -
Russia’s oil peak and the German reunification
Posted on October 4, 2010 | No CommentsOn the 20th anniversary of German reunification the Spiegel sums up the events in 1990 in this series of articles: An Inside Look at the Reunification Negotiations http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-s-unlikely-diplomatic-triumph-an-inside-look-at-the-reunification-negotiations-a-719848.html Of interest […]