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EU Official Warns Of ‘Rolling Blackouts’ As Energy Crisis Worsens
EU Official Warns Of ‘Rolling Blackouts’ As Energy Crisis Worsens Europe’s energy crisis is about to get a whole lot worse as the Northern Hemisphere winter is just weeks away. New risks are emerging across the continent that households and companies might have to scale back on power use or even plan for rolling blackouts. […]
Green Technologies Have a Glaring Problem of Scale
Green Technologies Have a Glaring Problem of Scale In the context of the massive attention paid to climate change, nations around the world have committed to substantially reducing and even eliminating their carbon emissions by 2050. Achieving these goals relies on several ‘green’ technologies that would form the basis of a future energy system. As […]
The Energy Transition Will Be Impossible Without Fossil Fuels
The Energy Transition Will Be Impossible Without Fossil Fuels OPEC members and other participants of ADIPEC2021 are calling on governments and international institutions to be realistic about the global energy transition While countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia are ready to embrace the energy transition, they argue that nations need to accept the role […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXIV
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXIV Athens, Greece (1984) Photo by author ***** Supply chain disruptions and the product shortages that result have become a growing concern over the past couple of years and the reasons for these are as varied as the people providing the ‘analysis’. Production delays. Covid-19 pandemic. Pent-up consumer demand. Central bank […]
Seeing the Big Picture | Nate Hagens
Seeing the Big Picture | Nate Hagens Understanding the critical connections between our values, our economy and our world Welcome to the era of generalists, of the big picture thinkers who translate concepts into action. These are the people who join the dots to get a better sense of how our world fits together—and how […]
A world without mining: a necessary goal we must dare to imagine
A world without mining: a necessary goal we must dare to imagine (Translation: Iolanda Mato.) In recent years, news keeps popping up on the decarbonization of the economy but always leaving out any questioning of the model of constant growth that currently directs the destiny of our societies. Some go even further and use the […]
A Practical Exercise Suggestion for Peak Oil Sceptics
A Practical Exercise Suggestion for Peak Oil Sceptics (Translated from Spanish by Amelia Burke, originally published in two parts.) When someone calls into question the existance of a peak in the production (extraction) of a non-renewable resource, which oil is, you should invite them to study carefully the curves of the Energy Export Databrowser. This Databrowser […]
Pretty Please? US Trying To Persuade Russia To Lift Oil Output
Pretty Please? US Trying To Persuade Russia To Lift Oil Output Interfax is reporting Thursday that the United States is urging Russia to raise oil output in order to lower global prices, following the Biden administration’s Tuesday announcement it plans release 50 million barrels of crude from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, amid predictions of $100 oil. “The US […]
365 Days of Climate Awareness 88 – Peak Oil
365 Days of Climate Awareness 88 – Peak Oil Too much demand causes oil prices to rise to an unsustainable level, leading to the oil market’s collapse. This is another topic, like eutrophication, which is not specifically part of the global warming problem, but it is of direct importance to society and to our use […]
Saudis, Russians Consider Pausing Oil Production Increases In Retaliation To Biden SPR Release
Saudis, Russians Consider Pausing Oil Production Increases In Retaliation To Biden SPR Release When commenting on yesterday’s SPR release announcement by the Biden admin and several assorted hanger-on nations – which has backfired spectacularly sending the price of oil soaring now that the rumor can no longer be sold so the news has to be […]
How Much of the Worsening Energy Crisis is Due to Depletion?
How Much of the Worsening Energy Crisis is Due to Depletion?
To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth
To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth Rick Nease / The Detroit Free Press / MCT Expectations for the COP26 climate summit were always low. They had dimmed even further by the time the prominent climate activist Vanessa Nakate of Uganda spoke from the main stage […]
Bright Green Lies
Bright Green Lies
