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Paradigm Shift: End of the Oil Age
PARADIGM SHIFT: END OF THE OIL AGE The world thinks it’s in an energy crisis today and indeed there are shortages in some places but the world is undergoing an energy crisis more fundamental than the simple shortage happening today in Europe. A shortage can be remedied. The larger problem is that oil use began […]
Europe’s Nuclear & Hydropower Falter With Droughts
Europe’s Nuclear & Hydropower Falter With Droughts As Europe looks to secure alternative energy sources to Russian gas in light of the war in Ukraine, Statista’s Anna Fleck warns, a new threat to energy security is stirring, this time from droughts. The droughts hitting Europe are impacting everything from food to transportation to the environment. In Italy, the River Po […]
It’s Time to Wake Up – The Currently Known Global Mineral Reserves Will Not Be Sufficient to Supply Enough Metals to Manufacture the Planned Non-fossil Fuel Industrial Systems
It’s Time to Wake Up – The Currently Known Global Mineral Reserves Will Not Be Sufficient to Supply Enough Metals to Manufacture the Planned Non-fossil Fuel Industrial Systems The research report made by Associate Research Professor Simon Michaux from Geological Survey of Finland GTK shows that if we want to transition away from fossil fuels, […]
German Officials Warn Of Draconian Energy Regulations, “Extremists” Fueling “Mass Protests And Riots”
German Officials Warn Of Draconian Energy Regulations, “Extremists” Fueling “Mass Protests And Riots” As queries for “firewood” have exploded on Google in Germany, and Deutsche Bank predicting that “wood will be used for heating purposes where possible,” German officials are now warning of extreme energy rationing measures, along with the potential for “extremists” to fuel national […]
BP Statistical Review of World Energy
BP Statistical Review of World Energy The challenges and uncertainties facing the global energy system are at their greatest for almost 50 years. bp’s Statistical Review of World Energy 2022 reveals that the growing shortages and increasing prices highlight the continuing importance of energy ‘security’ and ‘affordability’ alongside ‘lower carbon’ when addressing the energy trilemma […]
Washington steals over 80 percent of Syria’s oil output per day
Washington steals over 80 percent of Syria’s oil output per day The losses incurred by the trafficking campaign surpass $100bln, according to Syria’s oil ministry (Photo credit: USA Today) The Syrian Oil Ministry released a statement on 9 August accusing US forces occupying Syria of being responsible for the theft of most of the country’s […]
OPEC Sets The Stage For Output Cuts, Sees Oil Market Tipping Into Surplus In Clash With IEA Forecast
OPEC Sets The Stage For Output Cuts, Sees Oil Market Tipping Into Surplus In Clash With IEA Forecast Biden’s “hard-won”, post Saudi fist-bump OPEC output boost of 100K barrels may end up being not only the smallest on record, but also the shortest. In its latest monthly report, OPEC revealed that it expects global oil markets […]
A third of Brits face poverty with energy bills set to hit $5,000
A third of Brits face poverty with energy bills set to hit $5,000 London (CNN Business) Nearly one third of households in the United Kingdom will face poverty this winter after paying energy bills that are set to soar again in January, campaigners say. About 10.5 million households will be in fuel poverty for the first three […]
The Big Green Lie Almost Everyone Claims to Believe
Wind turbines are silhouetted against the sun at Black Law wind farm, in Black Law, Scotland, on Jan. 29, 2010. (Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images) The Big Green Lie Almost Everyone Claims to Believe Almost every member of Congress, Democrat or Republican, pays homage to the Big Green Lie. So do all the past and remaining […]
Phase Shift — Part 2
Phase Shift — Part 2 Putting tipping points into context Image credit: Pawel Czerwinski via Unsplash When you start to see the world as a massively complex self-adapting system with its innumerable actors and all its tipping points — as discussed in Part 1 of this essay — you start to see phase transitions everywhere. The world as […]
Steve Keen: “Mythonomics”
Steve Keen: “Mythonomics” On this episode, we meet with Economist, Author, and Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy, Resilience, and Security at University College in London, Steve Keen. Keen discusses how mainstream economics misses the centrality of energy to our economy and to our futures, the naive treatment to the risks of money and […]
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Oil and Gas: The Next Meltdown?
A Winter of Anger
A Winter of Anger Vincent van Gogh Beach at Scheveningen in Stormy Weather 1882It is very simple: if you’d ask most citizens of whichever EU country if they are willing to risk being unable to feed and heat their children in order to support Ukraine and Zelensky, they would say NO. Hell no! But that is what […]
“Revolution Has Begun”: 75,000 Brits To Stop Paying Power Bills Amid Inflation Storm
“Revolution Has Begun”: 75,000 Brits To Stop Paying Power Bills Amid Inflation Storm The resistance is growing as more than 75,000 irritated people in the UK have pledged not to pay their electricity bill this fall when prices jump again. “75,000 people have pledged to strike on October 1st! If the government & energy companies […]
