sábado, 6 de febrero de 2021

Newsvine - peak-oil

Source: guerrillanews.com

While the specific meanings of—and connections between—these occurrences are often difficult to discern, their overall drift is becoming plainer with every passing day: The world is plunging into an energy crisis unlike any before, while geopolitical alliances are shifting qu …

Source: jacksonholestartrib.com

The turning point may be coming just as Shell Exploration & Production Co. perfects a way to bake shale oil right from the ground. It's an alternative to mining and bringing rock to the surface for cooking in a "retort" or furnace.

Source: atimes.com

If you haven't studied the country of Dubai, it's a good idea to do so.

Source: cnn.com

Today the American people are way out in front of our leaders. We're ready to face our toughest national challenges, and we deserve new and forward-looking solutions and leadership.

Source: theage.com.au

Experts say there is plenty of fuel - but demand is skyrocketing, writes Richard Campbell.

Source: freemarketnews.com

With high oil and gas prices, companies that are developing alternative technologies are being chased as investment opportunities.

Source: freemarketnews.com

For quite a while now California politicians and bureaucrats have been searching for a conspiracy of oil companies which is supposed to explain rising gasoline prices. They have come up with nothing.

Source: Mike Rupert From The Wilderness

Mike Rupert calls this In Your Face, the most Most Important " From The Wilderness" (FTW) Story in Two Years...He lays out a time line of the White House oil plans with FOIA dcouments laying a four year long trail which ends with scene from Three Days of the Condor that's an ee …

Source: npr.org

The high cost of crude oil has many people looking for new sources of energy -- and taking a second look at some old ideas. Oil shale is an idea that was tested a generation ago, then abandoned when the price of crude oil plunged.

Source: news.yahoo.com

Oil industry executives have launched an especially vigorous public-relations campaign trying to polish up the image of an industry that Sen.

Source: atimes.com

The date was 1865; the important energy source was coal, not petroleum; and the writer was Stanley Jevons - a leading economist.

Looks like the news are coming from all around the globe - the only thing that's needed is to connect the dots, and a big flashing "Peak Oil" sign will appear.

Running an empire is a quite complicated task.

Source: npr.org

(audio article) When will this limited resource begin to run dry? And what technological changes need to take place to account for this eventuality?

Source: Xinuahnet

BEIJING, May 1 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government has taken diplomatic moves to reverse the downturn of China-Japan relations.

Source: fromthewilderness.com

Source: livescience.com

Energy experts no longer debate about whether Hubbert’s peak will occur, but when. On this point, estimates vary wildly. Kenneth Deffeyes, a Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, believes it has already happened—in late 2005.

Source: The Deep Intelligence Index

A Speech by Michael C. Ruppert for the Local Solutions to the Energy Dilemma Conference April 27-29, New York City, at Cooper Union

Source: newswithviews.com

"Only recently, just west of Gull Island, the Kuparuk oil field has been drilled. . . . The chemical make up of the field and the pressure of the field is different from the others, proving it to be a totally separate pool of oil. . .

Source: Reason

Predictions of imminent catastrophic depletion are almost as old as the oil industry.

Source: deepbutter.blogspot.com

Anti-globalisation activists chant slogans in favour of women’s rights on the first day of the World Social Forum in Karachi

Source: deepbutter.blogspot.com

SYNOPSIS: This week Helen Clark, New Zealand's Prime Minister openly admitted 'we're probably not too far short of peak production, if we're not already there.

Source: news.ft.com

How much do we have, honey: Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Seven leading economies raised the pressure on oil producers to increase supplies after oil hit a new record of over $75 a barrel in New York on Friday.

Source: Reuters via The DII

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices vaulted to a new peak over $75 a barrel on Friday as investment funds snapped up crude futures and tension mounted over Iran's nuclear intentions.

Source: news.ft.com

Desperation is no excuse for panic: