• Aaron Needs a Little Help

    Updated: 2009-12-31 17:38:31
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  • US Economy Could Recover Much Sooner Than Expected pt 2

    Updated: 2009-12-31 17:36:28
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/economics-finance/" title="Economics &amp; Finance">Economics &amp; Finance</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 448 Replies || 8278 Views Last post by <b>eXpat</b>

  • Transition Towns in Space!

    Updated: 2009-12-31 17:30:30
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/planning/" title="Planning For The Future">Planning For The Future</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 18 Replies || 187 Views Last post by <b>Ainan</b>

  • The 2010 PO.com Oil Price Challenge

    Updated: 2009-12-31 17:10:15
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/economics-finance/" title="Economics &amp; Finance">Economics &amp; Finance</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 56 Replies || 827 Views Last post by <b>Midessa</b>

  • US imposes steel tarrifs on China

    Updated: 2009-12-31 17:08:40
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/economics-finance/" title="Economics &amp; Finance">Economics &amp; Finance</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 2 Post || 14 Views Last post by <b>deMolay</b>

  • Bankers To Get Another 4 Trillion From Barney Frank

    Updated: 2009-12-31 17:08:40
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/economics-finance/" title="Economics &amp; Finance">Economics &amp; Finance</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 15 Replies || 243 Views Last post by <b>billg</b>

  • Future Energy Technology News

    Updated: 2009-12-31 17:02:05
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/energy-technology/" title="Energy Technology">Energy Technology</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 233 Replies || 13763 Views Last post by <b>Ainan</b>

  • Old VW Diesels Converted to BioFuel or Recycled Oil

    Updated: 2009-12-31 16:53:42
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/energy-technology/" title="Energy Technology">Energy Technology</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 2 Post || 15 Views Last post by <b>highlander</b>

  • Runaway Global Warming - Has Arrived pt 2

    Updated: 2009-12-31 16:41:42
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/environment/" title="Environment">Environment</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 1073 Replies || 16425 Views Last post by <b>Newfie</b>

  • Violent Cutback Level (VCL)

    Updated: 2009-12-31 16:37:17
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/peak-oil-discussion/" title="Peak Oil Discussion">Peak Oil Discussion</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 97 Replies || 1983 Views Last post by <b>Newfie</b>

  • 2010 - A Time to Die ?

    Updated: 2009-12-31 16:36:16
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/economics-finance/" title="Economics &amp; Finance">Economics &amp; Finance</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 1 Post || 20 Views Post by <b>AlexdeLarge</b>

  • Farewell to the 00's

    Updated: 2009-12-31 16:34:01
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/open/" title="Open Topic Discussion">Open Topic Discussion</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 37 Replies || 484 Views Last post by <b>Revi</b>

  • Record Sea Ice Loss in Arctic 2009

    Updated: 2009-12-31 16:17:52
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/environment/" title="Environment">Environment</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 1103 Replies || 22259 Views Last post by <b>Lore</b>

  • The Road To Perdition

    Updated: 2009-12-31 16:12:03
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/economics-finance/" title="Economics &amp; Finance">Economics &amp; Finance</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 1 Post || 14 Views Post by <b>deMolay</b>

  • THE Germany Thread (merged)

    Updated: 2009-12-31 16:05:12
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/europe-discussion/" title="Europe Discussion">Europe Discussion</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 754 Replies || 1915 Views Last post by <b>galacticsurfer</b>

  • Friday Fun – Wolves, Poles, and Dunes

    Updated: 2009-12-31 15:21:18
    Back-to-back Friday Fun posts – it must be the holidays!  We’ll get back to the seismic stuff shortly, but a few links of interest as we close out 2009: Making a New Year’s resolution to get more exercise?  Well, then draw some inspiration from Brutus the Wolf.  Brutus and his friends live on Ellesmere Island in [...]

  • Environmental Impact of Barnett Shale NG Production

    Updated: 2009-12-31 15:19:12
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/environment/" title="Environment">Environment</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 2 Post || 35 Views Last post by <b>mcgowanjm</b>

  • Income inequality: comparing the US states to the 3rd world

    Updated: 2009-12-31 15:15:10
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/economics-finance/" title="Economics &amp; Finance">Economics &amp; Finance</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 66 Replies || 728 Views Last post by <b>Ludi</b>

  • Coal power plants are more radioactive then nukes

    Updated: 2009-12-31 14:47:40
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/energy-technology/" title="Energy Technology">Energy Technology</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 23 Replies || 310 Views Last post by <b>deMolay</b>

  • Farms To Forests Plan Worries Vilsack Dept of Ag.

    Updated: 2009-12-31 14:37:44
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/open/" title="Open Topic Discussion">Open Topic Discussion</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 22 Replies || 156 Views Last post by <b>Ludi</b>

  • Fission FAQ v 1.5

    Updated: 2009-12-31 14:37:27
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/energy-technology/" title="Energy Technology">Energy Technology</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 50 Replies || 16886 Views Last post by <b>deMolay</b>

  • Barack Obama gets an 'F' for protecting Americans

    Updated: 2009-12-31 13:25:16
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/open/" title="Open Topic Discussion">Open Topic Discussion</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 24 Replies || 190 Views Last post by <b>Cloud9</b>

  • CO2 + H2O + Energy = synthetic fuel

    Updated: 2009-12-31 13:09:50
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/energy-technology/" title="Energy Technology">Energy Technology</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 30 Replies || 426 Views Last post by <b>Gerben</b>

  • THE Bees Thread (merged)

    Updated: 2009-12-31 11:56:31
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/environment/" title="Environment">Environment</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 343 Replies || 2897 Views Last post by <b>Piper32</b>

  • [Food] Production - Greenhouses

    Updated: 2009-12-31 06:45:05
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/planning/" title="Planning For The Future">Planning For The Future</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 110 Replies || 33770 Views Last post by <b>kpeavey</b>

  • The story of the last heart-shaped box company in America

    Updated: 2009-12-31 06:39:03
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/economics-finance/" title="Economics &amp; Finance">Economics &amp; Finance</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 19 Replies || 588 Views Last post by <b>jdmartin</b>

  • What Government is Good At

    Updated: 2009-12-31 06:36:19
    The TSA may be unable to successfully seize explosives before they get on an airplane, but they are able to successfully seize the laptops of bloggers who are critical of their organization.

  • Movie &#x26;quot;The Road&#x26;quot;

    Updated: 2009-12-31 06:10:10
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/book-media-reviews/" title="Book/Media Reviews">Book/Media Reviews</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 30 Replies || 857 Views Last post by <b>frankthetank</b>

  • US oil production in 2009 to show biggest jump in 40 years

    Updated: 2009-12-31 05:31:32
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/current-events/" title="Current Events">Current Events</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 46 Replies || 1205 Views Last post by <b>sparky</b>

  • Citgo Refinery Fire today

    Updated: 2009-12-31 04:36:28
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/current-events/" title="Current Events">Current Events</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 1 Post || 37 Views Post by <span style="color: #00AA00;"><b>Ferretlover</b></span>

  • How to save the planet, Edo Japan style

    Updated: 2009-12-31 03:54:30
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/planning/" title="Planning For The Future">Planning For The Future</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 33 Replies || 548 Views Last post by <b>americandream</b>

  • Panglossian Disorder

    Updated: 2009-12-31 02:17:35
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/open/" title="Open Topic Discussion">Open Topic Discussion</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 7 Replies || 186 Views Last post by <b>SeaGypsy</b>

  • Book: &#x26;quot;Eco-hysterics and the technophobes&#x26;quot; by Petr Beckmann

    Updated: 2009-12-31 02:00:05
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/environment/" title="Environment">Environment</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 36 Replies || 844 Views Last post by <b>Vogelzang</b>

  • Climate Change News links

    Updated: 2009-12-31 01:44:14
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/environment/" title="Environment">Environment</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 1135 Replies || 99236 Views Last post by <b>Graeme</b>

  • Fiscal Sustainability News

    Updated: 2009-12-31 01:26:03
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/economics-finance/" title="Economics &amp; Finance">Economics &amp; Finance</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 28 Replies || 610 Views Last post by <b>Graeme</b>

  • Australian credit binge sets new debt record

    Updated: 2009-12-31 00:13:52
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/australia-discussion/" title="Australia &amp; New Zealand Discussion">Australia &amp; New Zealand Discussion</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 17 Replies || 238 Views Last post by <b>Ainan</b>

  • Book: &#x26;quot;Depletion and Abundance&#x26;quot; by Sharon Astyk

    Updated: 2009-12-31 00:09:22
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/book-media-reviews/" title="Book/Media Reviews">Book/Media Reviews</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 6 Replies || 111 Views Last post by <b>oowolf</b>

  • Citrus and Peach trees

    Updated: 2009-12-31 00:04:01
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/planning/" title="Planning For The Future">Planning For The Future</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 392 Replies || 21106 Views Last post by <b>PeakOiler</b>

  • THE Crude Oil Price Watch Thread

    Updated: 2009-12-30 23:40:48
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/current-events/" title="Current Events">Current Events</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 23 Replies || 754 Views Last post by <b>oilluber</b>

  • Michigan Forces Business's Into Unions

    Updated: 2009-12-30 22:04:36
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/economics-finance/" title="Economics &amp; Finance">Economics &amp; Finance</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 7 Replies || 176 Views Last post by <b>crude_intentions</b>

  • How many children?

    Updated: 2009-12-30 21:50:25
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/planning/" title="Planning For The Future">Planning For The Future</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 48 Replies || 595 Views Last post by <b>mos6507</b>

  • Housing and Economic Collapse - In Progress #4

    Updated: 2009-12-30 21:45:36
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/economics-finance/" title="Economics &amp; Finance">Economics &amp; Finance</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 227 Replies || 15786 Views Last post by <b>eXpat</b>

  • Weekly US Petroleum and NG Supply Reports 2009

    Updated: 2009-12-30 21:32:32
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/current-events/" title="Current Events">Current Events</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 759 Replies || 18988 Views Last post by <b>memmel</b>

  • Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil world) 3

    Updated: 2009-12-30 20:00:07
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/planning/" title="Planning For The Future">Planning For The Future</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 1338 Replies || 32490 Views Last post by <b>Ludi</b>

  • China Dives Into Alberta Oil Sands

    Updated: 2009-12-30 19:39:20
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/americas-discussion/" title="Americas Discussion">Americas Discussion</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 1 Post || 31 Views Post by <b>deMolay</b>

  • Sasketchewan A Have Province At Last

    Updated: 2009-12-30 19:32:30
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/americas-discussion/" title="Americas Discussion">Americas Discussion</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 1 Post || 28 Views Post by <b>deMolay</b>

  • Favorite vehicles

    Updated: 2009-12-30 19:09:05
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/open/" title="Open Topic Discussion">Open Topic Discussion</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 16 Replies || 152 Views Last post by <b>Chuckmak</b>

  • Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Updated: 2009-12-30 19:02:39
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/americas-discussion/" title="Americas Discussion">Americas Discussion</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 12 Replies || 232 Views Last post by <b>deMolay</b>

  • &#x26;quot;Obamaville&#x26;quot; -- hopeless homeless huddle in despair

    Updated: 2009-12-30 18:56:25
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/economics-finance/" title="Economics &amp; Finance">Economics &amp; Finance</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 55 Replies || 1093 Views Last post by <b>Sixstrings</b>

  • Earthquake?

    Updated: 2009-12-30 18:54:46
    Probably not a big deal in California, but they are unusual in Phoenix.   My office was just shaking around some. Update: Yes, 5.9 in Northwest Mexico.   Article is a bit funny, as observers on ground floors accuse observers in tall buildings of lying about feeling the earthquake.

  • Flight 253: &#x26;quot;Sharp-dressed man&#x26;quot; helped bomber get on plane

    Updated: 2009-12-30 18:36:00
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/open/" title="Open Topic Discussion">Open Topic Discussion</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 52 Replies || 487 Views Last post by <b>Jotapay</b>

  • US demand down 811,000 barrels per day

    Updated: 2009-12-30 18:13:46
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/current-events/" title="Current Events">Current Events</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 257 Replies || 16998 Views Last post by <b>TheDude</b>

  • Is Ayatollah Preparing To Flee Iran?

    Updated: 2009-12-30 17:43:58
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/open/" title="Open Topic Discussion">Open Topic Discussion</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 4 Replies || 75 Views Last post by <b>deMolay</b>

  • Climate scientists == shaman who predicted eclipses

    Updated: 2009-12-30 16:29:02
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/open/" title="Open Topic Discussion">Open Topic Discussion</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 47 Replies || 462 Views Last post by <b>Jotapay</b>

  • Health Care for Christmas

    Updated: 2009-12-30 15:31:18
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/americas-discussion/" title="Americas Discussion">Americas Discussion</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 32 Replies || 618 Views Last post by <b>DefiledEngine</b>

  • Long Term Agricultural Overshoot

    Updated: 2009-12-30 14:54:56
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/environment/" title="Environment">Environment</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 42 Replies || 421 Views Last post by <b>rangerone314</b>

  • Second Wave in the worldwide economic crisis

    Updated: 2009-12-30 00:08:48
    <h5><a href="http://peakoil.com/economics-finance/" title="Economics &amp; Finance">Economics &amp; Finance</a></h5> <b>Statistics</b> : 38 Replies || 1015 Views Last post by <b>Tanada</b>

  • China Guarantees a Market for Renewable Energy

    Updated: 2009-12-29 04:34:35
    China is trying out an interesting new rule that privileges energy sources like solar and wind power over coal. In the end, its idea may prove more...

  • Friday Fun – Why Geoscientists Love Beer

    Updated: 2009-12-26 13:30:05
    Every once in a while, someone comes up to me and asks, “why does ION serve beer on-booth at its afternoon happy hours at EAGE and SEG?”  Finally, I’ve found the answer.  Wired Science conducted the field research at the American Geophysical Union’s fall meeting in San Francisco earlier this month.  The results are showcased in [...]

  • Ethanol Strikes Back: Industry Groups Sue California Over Low-Carbon Fuel Rule

    Updated: 2009-12-25 08:51:51
    The ethanol industry — specifically proponents of the corn-based fuel — feel like they’ve been picked on long enough. So, now...

  • Tale of Two Polls: The Impossible Task of Gauging Public Support for a Climate Bill

    Updated: 2009-12-23 19:08:26
    So, what is the American public’s appetite for legislation that would place limits on greenhouse gas emissions? On the heels of the...

  • Post-Copenhagen, Cleantech Industry Needs to Reconsider Goals

    Updated: 2009-12-23 18:44:23
    The Copenhagen climate conference has already been criticized for failing to set real goals. That's a problem for renewable energy companies, who...

  • Restaurant Row – Dubai Favorites

    Updated: 2009-12-23 17:59:15
    Dubai has been in the news a lot of late.  If your travels take you to Dubai (on seismic business, pleasure, or to help restructure the emirate’s debt), you will be truly spoilt for choice when it comes to food.  There are over 450 restaurants in the city, many located within the emirate’s luxury hotels.   Dubai [...]

  • Why OPEC Will Have To Cut Oil Production in 2010

    Updated: 2009-12-22 19:26:28
    The official line from OPEC, the oil cartel whose member countries include Iran, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria, is crude-oil production will stay the...

  • Take Command of Your Vibe Fleet

    Updated: 2009-12-16 17:30:42
    ‘Simultaneous Sweeping’ has become a catch-phrase in recent years.  Excitement in the area is building as the evidence mounts that simultaneous shooting methods such as ISS and DS3 make possible record-breaking field production levels.  With all the hype surrounding these and other new source production methods, it’s easy to lose sight of other advancements to vibratory [...]

  • Scorpion, Tales of Success in China

    Updated: 2009-12-14 03:50:47
    With all the buzz about FireFly, it’s easy to forget about another dynamic workhorse in ION’s land systems’ portfolio – Scorpion.  The Scorpion acquisition system was introduced at the SEG in 2006 and has since been deployed in a variety of challenging environments around the world.  Based on feedback from customers, ION has continued to make improvements to this [...]

  • Demand For Green Power Shows Resilience

    Updated: 2009-12-13 15:01:21
    A survey by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that the top 50 US purchasers bought more than 12.5 TWh of green power in 2008 with Intel Corporation holding the top spot, again. The Green Power Partnership, a voluntary program with 1,100 participants, keeps track of voluntary purchasers of green power, defined as electricity from solar, [...]

  • Weekend Warrior – Beijing

    Updated: 2009-12-11 01:12:51
    Beijing is a truly amazing city and a favorite of ION’s world travelers.  It serves as the capital of a country with centuries of history and tradition.  Closed to commerce and travel with the West until ~20 years ago, Beijing and China have burst onto the global scene in a big, big way culminating with [...]

  • Our Obsolete Playbook

    Updated: 2009-12-07 00:12:00
    : 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 Monday , December 07, 2009 Our Obsolete Playbook I think it would be quite easy to make the case that our playbook has failed us quite badly . And to make matters worse , only a few are even aware of it . Energy and government experts are fudging the numbers on a daily basis , while our financial experts are groping in the dark . No one , and I mean no one that matters , is prepared to cope with scenarios not contained in the playbook . Our current world view , or playbook” , is based upon classical , or Newtonian mechanics” after Sir Isaac Newton and his laws of motion . Big thinkers of the time , like Rene Descartes , concluded that the world was one of mathematical precision , not confusion . Science and technology were seen as the tools to rearrange the stuff of nature in a way that best advanced the material self-interest of human . beings Generations of economists have since proffered that an endless growth in material welfare is the economy’s long-run normal state and created a debt-based monetary

  • Continental Drift – Circa 1965

    Updated: 2009-12-06 23:11:32
    It’s amazing to think about how far we’ve come in terms of scientific achievement in recent years.  Some patterns of scientific progress remain constant, however, such as the importance of the visionary technology heretic as well as the headwinds introduced by the ever-present naysayer(s).  Those ever-present themes are well illustrated in an article I ran across last [...]

  • Houston Blizzard 12.04.2009

    Updated: 2009-12-05 01:35:51
    Well, our colleagues in Calgary, Denver, and Moscow may take exception to the term “blizzard” but, by Houston standards, this is probably as close as we’re going to get.  And, after all, we needed some proof for them as to why we all had to go home early today!  Although my neighborhood wasn’t nearly as snowy [...]

  • Friday Fun – The Snows of Kilimanjaro

    Updated: 2009-12-03 22:18:01
    Mount Kilimanjaro is a true wonder.  Soaring 4,600 meters off the plains of Tanzania, Kilimanjaro tops out at nearly 20,000 feet, making it the highest peak on the African continent.  Because of its extreme height, Kilimanjaro has historically been capped by snow year-round.  Author Ernest Hemingway was so inspired that he wrote a classic short story called [...]

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