Energy
Earth becoming a smoking, glowing, oily mess
“We . . . are turning our planet into a smoking, glowing, oily mess . . . plundering Mother Earth of her treasures . . . refusing to recognize the growing evidence that our reliance on oil, coal and nuclear threatens our health, our security, our economy, our nation and the world,” said Rep. Dennis [...]
Gulf oil spill a reminder of our limits
“There is only one meaningful response to the horrific oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and that is for America to stop messing around when it comes to designing its energy and environmental future. The only meaningful response to this man-made disaster is a man-made energy bill that would finally put in place an [...]
Peak oil reports ignored by mainstream media
“Recent weeks have seen an explosion of information on peak oil,” writes Matthew Wild on countercurrents.org, “everywhere it seems except in the mainstream media. . . . In February, the UK Industry Task Force on Peak Oil and Energy Security issued a report predicting an ‘oil crunch’ within five years. It was followed in mid-March [...]
Guest essay: Life after growth
Life after growth by Richard Heinberg What if the economy doesn’t recover? In 2008 the U.S. economy tripped down a steep, rocky slope. Employment levels plummeted; so did purchases of autos and other consumer goods. Property values crashed; foreclosure and bankruptcy rates bled. For states, counties, cities, and towns; for manufacturers, retailers, and middle- and [...]
A (shooting) gallery of alternative energy sources
For your entertainment and edification, I’m going to share with you some excerpts of my email correspondence with a friend on the topic of peak energy. I think we’ve reached the peak of oil production, our most important energy source, and if I’m right, production will decline in coming years, with disastrous implications for our [...]
Top 25 Censored Stories for 2010
Project Censored has released its “Top 25 Censored Stories for 2010.” The list, compiled annually by sociology students at Sonoma State University, represents news that has been repressed by political, economic, and/or legal pressure on the mainstream media. Here are the stories the MSM has been intimidated into quashing (details on the website or in [...]
Earth 2100: ABC’s worst-case scenario
“Earth 2100,” ABC’s two-hour “journey through the next century to explore what might be our worst-case scenario,” aired on Tuesday, June 2, 2009. Through a graphic novel format, the program follows generations of an American family during a 21st century in which “the ‘perfect storm’ of population growth, dwindling resources and climate change converge . [...]
Growth without limits–a false assumption
“. . . Our economy, indeed our entire civilization, is based on an obviously false assumption that we can have growth without limits. Even if we were able to restart the economic engine and push the pedal to the floor, we would not get far before we ran out of gas. And fresh water. And [...]
Bioelectricity beats ethanol
Science Magazine reports that converting biomass to ethanol fuel for vehicles powered by internal combustion engines is much less efficient than burning biomass to generate electricity for batteries of electric vehicles. The same acre of switchgrass, for example, could propel an electric powered car 7,000 miles further than a car with a combustion engine. The [...]
Ethanol is a scam!
Look up “scam” in the dictionary and you will see something like this: “A fraudulent business scheme; a swindle.” That’s an apt definition of the marketing of ethanol as an alternative to petroleum fuel. Ethanol producers receive tax breaks and subsidies that add up to as much as $1.38 a gallon to maximize their profits, [...]
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