Meet the Trailcart, the future of offroad adventure for
the post peak oil generation.
It will rapidly become very difficult to keep operational as we move more into
the post peak oil period.
This should give us a worrying clue as to the very extreme degree of energy descent that may be experienced as we move further into
post peak oil.
Not exact matches
Witness our
posts on community groups planning for
peak oil in Portland, and in Totnes in the UK.
Perhaps the worst aspect of these technical «solutions» is that they give a de-facto green light to continue to put more CO2 into the atmosphere, Since
oil production is expected to
peak within decades if not sooner, nations will turn more and more to coal, which as Figen pointed out in an earlier
post is a very dirty fuel.
He must be feeling the heat, because in his latest
post to his blog, he denies being Mr. Gloom n'doom and makes positive and realistic recommendations of what we will have to do to adapt to climate change and
peak oil.
Posted by xraymike79 in Climate Change, Ecological Overshoot, Environmental Degradation,
Peak Oil, Pollution
Posted by Prof. Goose on June 25, 2007 - 9:52 am Tags: caltech, climate change, coal, fossil fuels, hubbert
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He «subscribes» to me through google alerts, so if I
post an article on energy, he'll get an email and read my article — that's one of the reasons I wrote «
Peak Oil and the Preservation of Knowledge», «
Peak Soil: Why Cellulosic and other Biofuels are Not Sustainable and a Threat to America's National Security», «The Hydrogen Economy — Energy and Economic Black Hole», etc..
Posted by Stuart Staniford on November 30, 2005 - 7:37 pm Tags: climate change, global warming, hubbert
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Leaving aside the impact of the
oil and gas methane rule itself, a steadily escalating $ 100 / ton CO2 regulatory penalty
post — 2020 will make building any new gas power plants — except as demand
peak cover for renewables — a fool's game.
Comments on the previous Climate Etc
post on Maggio and Cacciola's paper, When will
oil, natural gas, and coal
peak?
Great
post, even if an over reaction to Shollenberger, with whom I penned a CE guest
post on IEA
peak oil two some years ago.
But note guest
post here, in which I raised concerns about economic growth rates in the face of
Peak Oil and (later)
Peak Gas over the coming century.
Oil Drum has the full list of past -
peakers in it's
posting titled: Is
Peak Oil Real?
When I
posted the trailer for In Transition — the documentary about the Transition Towns movement as a response to
peak oil and climate change — commenter CB was less than enamored with the film making style.
It was only yesterday that we were
posting on
oil executives» warnings about the consequences of
peak oil, and looking at the solutions that are out there.
The 2008 Transition Towns Conference - Image Credit: Mike Grenville
Peak Oil Response Continues to Grab Headlines At some point we're going to have to stop
posting each time Transition Towns appear in the mainstream press.
In a world where internet «hits» invariably involve dumb stunts, cute kittens or scantily clad women (my second most popular
post ever involved a young woman dancing in lingerie while talking about
peak oil), it can be hard for scientists or activists to make their voice heard.
I don't in any way intend this
post to be a plea for compromise between those who believe in climate change,
peak oil etc, and those that don't.
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But having made my point, I probably shouldn't hijack this interesting
post about methane hydrates any further — I guess we should try to work out how to extract and burn them to avert the
peak oil crisis risk of release: --RRB-
I think I am up to 14,000
posts of TheOilDrum.com (tech central for
Peak Oil), a chapter in «transport Beyond
Oil» (Island Press), Millennium Institute, etc..