Here are links to posts on this site about Energy and Peak Oil.
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- Mining the oil sands is safer than deep offshore drilling, but as dirty (or even dirtier), 22 May 2010
- Links to articles and presentations of some A-team energy experts , 11 November 2007
- Let us light a candle while we walk, lest we fear what lies ahead , 10 February 2008
- Fears of flying into the future , 25 February 2008
- The “Oil Shockwave” project: well-funded analysis of the obvious , 10 April 2008
- Euphoria about the Bakken Formation , 10 April 2008
- The Internet makes us dumber: the Bakken euphoria, a case study , 15 April 2008
- Fantasy sells so much better than news! , 18 April 2008
- Peak Oil Doomsters debunked, end of civilization called off , 8 May 2008
- Spreading the news: the end is nigh! , 8 May 2008
- What does $120 oil mean for the global economy? , 15 May 2008
- President Bush begs for oil, and is refused , 20 May 2008
- The secret cause of high oil prices , 6 August 2008
- How does the long-term trend of peak oil affect us, in terms of short-term events?, 30 August 2008
- An urban legend to comfort America: our massive reserves of unconventional oil, 29 August 2008
- An urban legend to comfort America: crash programs will solve Peak Oil, 5 September 2008
- An urban legend to comfort America: demand for oil creates new supply, 8 September 2008
- An urban legend to comfort America: oil is oil, even if it is not oil, 10 September 2008
- An urban legend to comfort America: alternative energy will save us, 16 September 2008
- Another example showing how energy research is just inspired guessing, since America prefers being blind, 23 September 2008
- Could a new “Manhattan Project” produce radically new energy sources?, 29 June 2010
- Exaggerations and false predictions are good; truth is bad, 10 August 2010 — We’re ignorant because we prefer lies
- Coal-to-liquids as a case study of how excessive optimism is our enemy, 14 February 2011
- Eventually we’ll have unlimited cheap clean energy. But that will not help us or our kids., 15 February 2011
- A snapshot of our engines of innovation, as they develop new energy sources , 12 May 2008
- The greenest of energy: inedible biofuels, 22 September 2008
- An atomic solution to the energy crisis, 11 November 2008
- Fusion energy, too risky a bet for America (we prefer to rely on war) , 4 May 2008
- A long-shot project for fusion power: the Polywell, 30 September 2008
- When will global oil production peak? Here is the answer!, 1 November 2007
- More answers about Peak Oil! (or just better phrased questions), 5 November 2007
- Peak Oil, part 3: discussing the solutions, 10 November 2007
- Myths about Peak Oil – part I: There are not enough petro-engineers!, 15 November 2007
- Good news about Global Oil Production!, 10 January 2008
- More good news about Peak Oil, on the demand side, 16 January 2008
- The most dangerous form of Peak Oil, 8 April 2008
- The three forms of Peak Oil (let’s hope for the benign form) , 23 April 2008
- The world changed last week, with no headlines to mark the news, 25 April 2008
- Nigeria, a weak link in the global oil supply , 2 May 2008
- An effective rebuttal to warnings about Peak Oil? , 5 May 2008
- Two valuable reports about global oil production! , 30 May 2008
- When the King of Saudi Arabia talks about oil, we should listen , 2 July 2008
- Red Alert: the Saudi Princes have annouced the arrival of Peak Oil , 11 July 2008
- Good news about oil, but for our grandkids – not us , 14 July 2008
- Colonel Lang shows us why the 21st century might prove difficult – even painful – for America, 26 August 2008
- An urban legend to comfort America: our massive reserves of unconventional oil, 29 August 2008
- An urban legend to comfort America: oil is oil, even if it is not oil, 10 September 2008
- What’s up with the price of oil?, 24 November 2008
- Let’s “hope and pray that Hirsch is wrong”, 10 January 2009
- Poor peak oil research, more evidence of a serious problem with America’s vision, 5 May 2009
- What caused the Spring 2008 spike in oil prices?, 22 April 2010
- If humanity is unprepared for Peak Oil, here are some of the guilty people, 11 May 2010
- Science: “Oil Peak or Panic?”, 20 May 2010
- Recovering lost knowledge about exhaustion of Earth’s resources (such as Peak Oil), 27 January 2011
- One of the top questions for our time: how will Peak Oil affect the economy?, 6 September 2011
- A look at forecasts for peak oil – and the end of civilization, 13 July 2012