I just listened to this week’s The Investigation on Radio 4. Described as ‘Simon Cox investigates the truth behind rising oil prices’ it was a major disappointment.
Cox spends half an hour looking for the culprit behind rising prices. The usual suspects are trundled out for view, i.e: oil producers and futures speculators, all [...]
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Great article from the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia about Mohammed Bah Abba, a Nigerian teacher who invented a refrigerator that doesn’t require electricity.
It’s an inspiring read!
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It is important to understand that Peak Oil is not about oil ‘running out’ (which, of course it will do one day, eventually). Rather, as the good folk at the Oil Drum like to put it it: “It’s the size of the tap, not the size of the tank.“
Gail Tverberg states the case with clarity [...]
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Jeremy Leggett wrote the excellent and highly recommended ‘ Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis’.
Here’s a clip of him speaking at the Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO) conference 2007
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