Oil Banker Warns of Energy Crisis James Howard Kunstler is not the only one who sees parallels between the current financial crisis and
a coming energy crisis.
«He went on to criticize the sluggish response by policymakers to
the coming energy crisis:
Not exact matches
But as this week's Oroville, California dam
crisis illustrates, hydroelectric
energy technology
comes with a major yet infrequent risk: Catastrophic collapse and flooding.
The fascination with the demonic in modern literature, the tendency of many to turn psychoanalysis or «psychodrama» into a cult of self - realization, and the illusory belief that personal fulfillment can
come through «release» of one's deep inward
energies all show the peculiarly modern relevance of the «
crisis of temptation and dishonesty» which Buber describes.
Had I
come of age during the great
crisis of 1914 — 1945, or even during the tense, early decades of the Cold War, it's likely I, too, would have sought to defuse the consolidated
energies of sovereign peoples, which is what the founders of what became the European Union did in the years after the war.
Energy market regulation and energy prices have come to the fore on a regular basis at G8 and G20 summits in connection with geopolitical crises (especially on gas) and benchmark oil price increases (the Brent ma
Energy market regulation and
energy prices have come to the fore on a regular basis at G8 and G20 summits in connection with geopolitical crises (especially on gas) and benchmark oil price increases (the Brent ma
energy prices have
come to the fore on a regular basis at G8 and G20 summits in connection with geopolitical
crises (especially on gas) and benchmark oil price increases (the Brent market).
In a brief assessment of the health of the economy while addressing staff and students of the University of
Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) in Sunyani yesterday, he said: «The economy is healthy, and so when somebody says the economy is in
crisis, we don't see where the
crisis is
coming from.»
Before the mortgage
crisis, when loans were easier to
come by and
energy was relatively cheap,
energy - efficient mortgages weren't very enticing, experts say, and lenders didn't bother with them.
Investigating long - term solutions to the world's
energy needs and investing in sustainable technologies are crucial as the climate
crisis comes into focus, a set of experts cautioned at Princeton University on Nov. 14.
The piece falls into the partisan trap of painting all opponents in one color when in fact there are conservatives who care about science and
energy, even some (Charles Krauthammer
comes to mind) who — while challenging the portrayal of global warming as a real - time
crisis — see the value in a high tax on gasoline, swapped for lower taxes elsewhere.
In response to the oil
crisis, NCSEA's founders
come together to create an organization to transform NC's
energy economy.
He follows in the footsteps of Charles Duncan Jr., the second Secretary of
Energy who
came into office in the midst of the oil
crisis in 1979.
Ken Levenson, President of New York Passive House, said, «With these planned actions New York City shows we have the knowledge, capability and courage to deliver deep building
energy efficiency in the
coming decades commensurate to the scale of our climate
crisis.
Innovation must receive greater emphasis in the debate; less the «
coming clean
energy crisis» that University of California, San Diego Professor David Victor warns of will
come true.
The millions wasted on climate science could be far better spent on
energy research, where our real
coming crisis lies.
That
came as a surprise: Because of the onset of the worst economic
crisis in decades, other bodies like the International
Energy Agency had predicted a significant decline in 2009, the report said.
Didn't he just
come out in favor of offshore drilling as our solution to the
energy crisis... is this some sort of self parody?
In South America, the vision of a clean
energy economy is starting to
come to life as countries like Chile are seeing the reality of the climate
crisis and choosing bold policy solutions, replacing dirty fossil fuels with wind, solar, and geothermal at every turn.
Shiny Cars and Solar Panels Get More Attention In much the same way, when it
comes to solving our
energy crisis there is always more enthusiasm for renewable
energy technologies, like wind and solar, than there is for
energy efficiency.
If that
came about and some of the low grade corporate debt in the oil sector or
energy sector started defaulting, potentially, you would have some sort of financial
crisis that is unrelated to real estate.