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The Next Crisis: Prepare for Peak Oil

February 11, 2010 by Big Gav
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Peak oil seems to be slowly raising its profile kin the mainstream media again lately, with the Wall Street Journal providing a recent example - The Next Crisis: Prepare for Peak Oil. As Europe's leaders gather in Brussels today, they have only one crisis in mind: the debts that threaten the stability of the European Union. They are... [read more]

Dr. Michael Dittmar on the Future of Nuclear Energy

November 10, 2009 by Charles Barton
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Dr. Michael Dittmar, a CERN Physicist, has posted Part IV of his essay on the Future of Nuclear Energy, on the Oil Drum. In many respects Dr/ Dittmar's conclusions track the conclusions of thorium advocates.Dr. Ditmann has some interesting observations on LMFBRs. He claims that the IAEA data base for fast reactors does not present any... [read more]

A Massive Decline in Carbon Emissions?

October 16, 2009 by Robert Rapier
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A couple of years ago, I wrote an essay that ultimately turned out to be very controversial:Why We Will Never Address Global WarmingThat same essay published at The Oil Drum received 560 comments, and was until recently the most-commented upon post in The Oil Drum's history. Global Warming/Climate Change is a topic that people get very... [read more]

End Times Thinking and the Locavore Fallacy

July 29, 2009 by Michael Tobis
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I am not confident that the world will muster the foresight needed to thrive indefinitely. I do suspect that the economies of the west have peaked. I also thing that the economy of the world will peak soon. This makes me a pessimist compared with the mass media, the government, the business community.But compared with garden variety... [read more]

The Great Relaxation Revisited

May 10, 2009 by Michael Tobis
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I have tried to make the case that an economic slowdown properly handled can be a good thing on balance, even though it will be certainly stressful in the short run for people who are unprepared for it. I proposed repackaging the whole business, dropping the depressing words "depression" and "recession" in favor of "relaxation", on the... [read more]

A Thursday afternoon links roundup

April 9, 2009 by Lynne Kiesling
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I should probably follow David Zetland’s lead and start calling these speed blogging, because it’s really just me clearing out my links to open and interesting reads! This is an old Environmental Leader article from November, but it describes Sun’s Open Eco application: Sun Microsystems has updated OpenEco.org, an online community that... [read more]