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The world’s two biggest emitters of greenhouse gas emissions will attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen with at...
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Updated: 2009-11-29 22:53:50
The Observer Debate
Is there any real chance of averting the climate crisis?
By James Hansen
Professor James Hansen is director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.
His latest book is Storms of My Grandchildren.
Nasa’s James Hansen was the first to point out the perils of climate change to the US Congress. Here, he begins [...]
Updated: 2009-11-29 22:25:12
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Some interesting developments about natural gas in China in recent weeks. First were a series of announcements about serious domestic shortages of natural gas driven, in part, by an ‘early winter’ and unseasonably cold temperatures. If one digs below the surface, other factors come into play including a heavily regulated pricing regime that leaves “insufficient margin incentive” for producers. [...]
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The big international companies such as BP and ExxonMobil are struggling to find enough new oil to replace their exploited reserves year-on-year and Shell found itself on the end of a major fine for exaggerating its reserves report to the Securities & Exchange Commission in the US.
Updated: 2009-11-27 23:30:08
The U.S. ethanol industry continues its economic roller coaster ride as one producer prepares to restart production and another files for...
Updated: 2009-11-25 23:47:34
The hand-wringing and speculation over whether President Obama will attend international climate talks next month can finally be laid to rest. The...
Updated: 2009-11-25 19:30:11
Patterson-UTI Energy had an average of 88 drilling rigs operating in October, up from an average count of 73 in the third-quarter ended September....
Updated: 2009-11-25 16:29:20
Halliburton’s biggest Mexican customer, Petroleos Mexicanos, is reducing its exploration plans in the Burgos field and others in Veracruz and...
Updated: 2009-11-24 13:49:13
Government researchers have produced a prototype system that can use solar energy to produce oil-equivalent fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide.
Updated: 2009-11-24 01:56:37
Advocates of a bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States have touted its benefits like job creation and energy independence....
Updated: 2009-11-23 17:14:30
Climate-change legislation took a backseat to the congressional debate over a health care bill last week. Meaning, chances of passing legisation...
Updated: 2009-11-23 16:55:17
I ran across an article the other day in Business Week entitled, The World’s Best Presentations. Being curious, I clicked through, read the story, and viewed some of the award-winning presentations on SlideShare. I know I’m getting old, but I don’t recall ever having heard of SlideShare before. For those in a similar boat, I’d [...]
Updated: 2009-11-23 04:57:42
<a href="http://edibleplants.multiply.com/notes/item/33">http://edibleplants.multiply.com/notes/item/33</a>
Updated: 2009-11-20 10:28:52
The oddly plural phrase “European Communities” is not, as one might think, a reference to the 27 member states of the European Union, but to an anachronistic constitutional anomaly.
Two Treaties of Rome were signed in March 1957. Both came into force on 1 January 1958.
One was the widely known European Economic Community Treaty, since [...]
Updated: 2009-11-19 23:30:07
It’s generally considered to be one of the greatest finishes in college football. Stanford vs. Cal in what these two San Francisco Bay Area universities refer to as “The Big Game.” Future Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway leads Stanford down the field for the go-ahead touchdown in one of his patented fourth quarter drives. Victory looks assured…
Watch the [...]
Updated: 2009-11-17 21:44:44
Posted November 16, 2009
It’s probably too late to prepare for peak oil, but we can at least try to salvage food production.
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 16th November 2009
I don’t know when global oil supplies will start to decline. I do know that another resource has already peaked and gone into freefall: the [...]
Updated: 2009-11-17 20:55:55
We’ve told you before that streamer steering is becoming all the rage among the E&P operators. We’re continuing to add features to our ORCA command & control software package and to our DigiFIN lateral streamer steering system, thereby extending the functionality of these core components in our Intelligent Acquisition [IA] streamer platform.
E&P operators are turning to [...]
Updated: 2009-11-17 03:47:54
[ December 4, 2009 to December 5, 2009. ] Fri - Sat December 4 - 5
9 am – 5 pm
Langara College, 100 West 49 Avenue, Vancouver
Co-sponsored by:
Langara College Continuing Studies, Village Vancouver and the Canadian Centre for Community Renewal
Join leaders of the transition movement in Vancouver for a 2-day workshop and dialogue introducing the principles, steps and lessons of the successful Transition Town [...]
Updated: 2009-11-15 14:57:19
As anyone involved in the E&P business knows, Brazil has arguably been the hottest exploration province anywhere in the world over the last several years. The excitement began to boil over with the confirmation of the multi-billion barrel Tupi discovery in 2007, but it seems like one giant find after another have been announced almost every month [...]
Updated: 2009-11-12 20:30:05
I have such fond memories of dining in Beijing. I’ve had some of the best Dim Sum on the planet; eaten one of the spiciest things ever to enter my mouth (a Sichuan hot pot that was loaded with little red peppers that, despite my best efforts, I’ve never been able to find in Houston); [...]
Updated: 2009-11-12 20:18:22
The race for the world’s remaining oil reserves could get very nasty.
Updated: 2009-11-11 06:58:54
Rex Weyler alerted all us to this article. Jon Cooksey said, “WASSSSSSF”…and Rick Balfour heartily agreed. Uh Oh
Estimates of reserves inflated says top official
Terry Macalister guardian.co.uk
9 November 2009
The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been [...]
Updated: 2009-11-10 20:44:19
At the SEG trade show, we introduced our third Google Earth-based feature of ION technology deployments around the world, this time depicting our Land Imaging Systems in action.
After launching the application by clicking on the graphic below, use the intuitive navigation to identify deployments of interest by either Region or Product line, and then zoom in to watch [...]
Updated: 2009-11-09 09:52:09
California has been leading the rest of the US in many areas, but the one area the policymakers are most proud of is that the state has managed to keep its per capita electricity consumption virtually flat for 30 years – a feat that is the envy of the rest of the country.
There are many [...]
Updated: 2009-11-09 01:34:52
Create a New Account Join for Free Want to learn more Take the Tour Already a Member Sign In Peak Oil Issues Home Notes Blog Photos Video Music Calendar Reviews Links Local Solutions from a Peak Oil Task Force Nov 8, 09 8:34 PM by David for everyone Last week I wrote about the Creation of a Local Peak Oil Task Force in Bellingham and Whatcom . County Today I want to share the Briefing Paper that was prepared in advance of the task force . This paper was written to accompany and support the City and County Resolutions creating the task force in May of 2008. Some will want to read the 8 page paper as one document please see the pdf attachment below this post . Others may not have time to sit down and read it all through right now , so I'm posting it in the Forum here in 3 installments . Part 1 below . I encourage you to follow up on at least some of the footnotes lots of good info out there Local Solutions from a Peak Oil Task Force PART 1 Peak Oil â Introduction and Definition âThe peaking of world oil production presents the U.S . and the world with an unprecedented risk management problem . As peaking is approached , liquid fuel prices and price volatility will increase
Updated: 2009-11-08 13:39:31
One of the videos we released at the SEG trade show highlighted a FireFly survey in northeast Texas. Last week, Dawson Geophysical completed this survey, which was being conducted on behalf of a supermajor looking to characterize a potential reservoir in the Haynesville shale.
A narrated PowerPoint slideshow of this project (Phase I) is also available online. Whether you prefer [...]
Updated: 2009-11-07 15:30:01
There's not much to be said here that hasn't already been said a thousand times before. So let's quickly review a few key issues...
We now find one barrel of conventional oil for every 4 we consume
New wells drilled over the last few years have nearly doubled, but production has remained flat.
About 75% of the world's current oil production is from fields that were discovered prior to 1970, which are past their peaks and beginning their declines. And the remaining 25% comes from fields that are now 10 to 15 years old.
Bottom line: The days of cheap, abundant oil are over. And if you don't believe it, just look at what the experts are saying...
"Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand." - Jeroem van de Veer, CEO of Shell
"Our view is that oil production will peak in the near future. We need to develop power trains for alternative energy sources." - Katsuaki Watanbe, President, Toyota
"The easy, che...
Updated: 2009-11-07 14:57:00
<li>Solar - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has indicated that enough electric power for the entire country could be generated by covering about 9% of Nevada with solar power systems. This is a plot of land roughly 92 miles by 92 miles. <li>Wind - The DOE has also stated that wind could provide 5,800 quads of energy each year. That's about 15 times the current global energy demand. <li>Geothermal - According to M.I.T., there are over 100 million quads of accessible geothermal energy worldwide. The world only consumes about 400 quads. <li>Marine Energy - The Electric Power Research Institute has estimated the wave energy along the U.S. coastline at 2,100 Twh per year. That's half the total U.S. consumption of electricity. <li>Hybrids - According to the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, if all cars on the road were hybrids, and half were Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles by 2025 - U.S. imports would be reduced by 8 million barrels per day. That's about 80% of our daily consumption! <br><a href="http://www.angelnexus.com/o/web/10407">http:...
Updated: 2009-11-07 14:48:10
The Energy-Water Nexus
A presentation by Michael Webber of the University of Texas at Austin emphasized another important interrelationship: We use water for energy, and energy for water.
Nearly all power plants are thermoelectric heat engines — they use heat to produce electricity (the notable exceptions to this are hydro power and solar photovoltaics). Although there are many variations of the process, here's a simple explanation: A source of heat is applied to one side of the engine, which causes the expansion of a gas. The expansion of the gas makes a turbine spin, generating electrical power. The heat is then dumped by the cold side of the engine, which causes the gas to condense again.
Water is typically used to remove the heat on the cold side. Air-cooled plants are also possible, but they are less efficient because they're less cold, and so water-cooled plants are far more common.
It should come as no surprise, then, that the largest user of water in the U.S. is th...
Updated: 2009-11-07 14:44:05
Peak Credit = Peak Oil
Gail Tverberg, energy analyst and editor of The Oil Drum, discussed the financial side of complexity in her presentation, describing the economy as a highly-networked system of great interdependence: manufacturing depends on international trade; businesses depend on credit, manufactured goods, and electricity; electric utilities depend on credit and on replacements parts, and so on.
There is a systemic risk in highly-networked, interdependent systems she said, like a computer crash: one thing stops working, and everything else stops working. International trade and finance and credit, for example, are closely linked with oil extraction. It's not coincidental that consumer credit peaked in July 2008, just as oil production peaked. . .
Credit enables oil production, and also enables demand for oil, by allowing consumers to buy things made with and from oil. Conversely, shrinking oil supplies limit economic growth, leading to the kind of defaults we saw this...
Updated: 2009-11-07 14:35:29
Insights from the ASPO Peak Oil Conference
By Chris Nelder
Friday, November 6th, 2009
One of the more interesting themes that emerged from this year's ASPO peak oil conference was the problems of maintaining complex systems, and the role that energy plays in them.
Dr. Jason Bradford, the biology brains behind Farmland LP (more on that here), ticked off a few of the key vulnerabilities of the U.S. food system in his presentation on sustainable agriculture:
Commercial agriculture consumes 10.3 quads (quadrillion BTUs) of primary energy in order to produce 1.4 quads of food energy. The inputs are mainly fossil fuels used in running tractors, producing artificial fertilizers, producing seeds, trucking, refrigeration, processing, freezing and cooking.
Commercial agriculture not only depletes non-renewable resources and degrades soil, air, and water, but it also releases 5 billion pounds of harmful chemicals and massive amounts of greenhouse gas emissions into the environment p...
Updated: 2009-11-06 02:58:05
This week’s Friday Fun focuses on two photo galleries and a really cool time-lapse (4D) animation of the construction of the International Space Station:
Gallery #1, from the UK’s Telegraph, showcases the sand sculptures of Indian artist Sudarsan Pattnaik, who spent 3 hours each morning and evening perfecting his craft at a nearby beach.
Gallery #2, also [...]
Updated: 2009-11-05 03:53:36
Congratulations to the New York Yankees for winning their 27th world championship, the most in North American professional sports.
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Updated: 2009-11-03 21:29:20
Burlington Northern, the nation's second-largest railroad, is the biggest hauler of food products like corn, and coal for electricity, making it an indicator of the country's economic health. The railroad also ships a large amount of consumer goods -- including items imported from Asia -- from big Western ports like Los Angeles and Seattle.
Analysts say Buffett is planting both feet in an industry that is poised to grow as the economy gets back on solid ground. It would be the biggest acquisition ever for Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
"Berkshire's $34 billion investment in BNSF is a huge bet on that company, CEO Matt Rose and his team, and the railroad industry," Buffett said in a statement.
"Most important of all, however, it's an all-in wager on the economic future of the United States. I love these bets," he said.
Updated: 2009-11-03 18:14:00
: : skip to main skip to sidebar Exploring the Issue of Hydrocarbon Depletion A Blog on our Energy future Supported by : International Communications Management aarondunlap.net Tuesday , November 03, 2009 Joe Sparano : The Facts about the Peak Oil Theory Part of the problem here lies in the fact that the word theory has two distinctly different . meanings In science , the word theory is used to denote a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena In colloquial non-scientific parlance , the word theory is mistakenly conflated with the term hypothesis a tentative insight into the natural world a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena Of course obfuscationists rely on and encourage this confabulation in the public mind to keep the uninformed swallowing their . drivel The latter is the mistaken sense in which the term is used when people utter the platitude , just a theory The former , scientific meaning is what is actually indicated when the phrase peak oil theory is used amongst those who
