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15 Signs That Obama Has Already Made The Decision To Go To War With Syria 27 Aug 2013 | 04:07 pm
Following John Kerry’s press briefing, it appears the Obama administration seems absolutely determined to help radical Islamic jihadists that have beheaded Christians, that have massacred entire Chris...
In Bustling Houston, It’s A Case of ‘Build, Baby, Build!’ 27 Aug 2013 | 04:05 pm
With Texas one of the few bright spots in the U.S. economy, the skyline of swaggering Houston is where the action is as builders and global oil companies, from Phillips 66 to Exxon Mobil Corp, look pa...
Wealth is not Property 27 Aug 2013 | 03:29 pm
[Guest post by Ellen, a long-time reader of this blog that I've only just heard from recently. She makes a valid point, one I couldn't have made better myself. It makes me happy that a woman is making...
Housel: Peak oil is finally here 27 Aug 2013 | 03:27 pm
Peak oil is here, writes The Economist. But not the peak oil you’re thinking of, where supplies dwindle and prices march inevitably higher. That’s so 2008. This is peak oil demand, and it could hit in...
Reaching “peak bashing” of peak oil 27 Aug 2013 | 03:26 pm
The discussion of the death of peak oil has ramped up along with the increased hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling into tight sands and formations across North Dakota and Texas. In fact, eve...
Peak Oil Denial: Abundant Nonsense # 3 27 Aug 2013 | 03:36 am
We don’t like bad news, particularly when it has very long term implications. Individually and collectively we tend to slip into denial mode, focus on diversions, become numbed to the reality of the s...
Energy From Oil or Energy From Water? 26 Aug 2013 | 10:56 pm
The late, Dr. Richard Smalley, Nobel laureate in Chemistry said the Terawatt Challenge is to find the “new oil”—a basis for energy prosperity in the 21st century that is as enabling as oil and gas hav...
Gail the Actuary almost gets it right 26 Aug 2013 | 10:55 pm
In the entry of July 11th, I commented on Gail Tverberg’s list of monetary problems that arise in connection with energy technologies that have an EROI as low as 5.0 in the methodology employed by Cha...
Energy Cost Innovation: Liquid Fuel Nuclear Reactors 26 Aug 2013 | 09:26 pm
Low-cost, clean energy can help solve many world problems, from global warming to overpopulation to GDP stagnation. Nuclear power can be such an energy source, but the costs of solid fuel reactors con...
Fukushima’s legacy is just beginning 26 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
The highly radioactive water leaking from the wrecked Fukushima plant is part of a problem that Japan will take decades to resolve and which will blight many thousands of lives. LONDON, 25 August – Th...
