Iran Set to Double Nuclear Fuel Capability

Israel’s ‘red line’ could be hit in June, the point when Iranians have enough 20%-enriched uranium to produce a warhead Iran has finished installing nearly 3,000 nuclear-fuel production machines at its underground military facility near the holy city of Qom, providing Tehran the capability to double its production of medium-enriched uranium in the coming months, […]

Peak Oil Files – 3 – In High Demand

Peak oil is where oil production rates fall after hitting a peak. Supply will no longer be able to meet demand causing dramatic increases in oil price. This will have a major impact on us and our economies in a world thoroughly dependent on oil. This is the first chapter in an in depth, multi […]

Tech Talk – Global oil supply and Iranian Production

One of the headlines this week has come from the IEA Report that suggests that the United States will be the top global oil producer in five years. Yet back in DeSoto Parish in Louisiana where the Haynesville Shale discovery in 2008 started the bonanza, revenues are now falling and school board budgets are being […]

Light crude surplus spins world oil trade compass

The world is increasingly saturated with hitherto scarce high-quality light crude with Europe’s market to join the United States in a surplus, traders say, predicting a scramble to export to Asia and a global shortage of once abundant heavy oil. The shale oil boom has pushed U.S. production to the highest in more than 15 […]

Shale Gas Will Be The Next Bubble To Pop

The “shale revolution” has been grabbing a great deal of headlines for some time now. A favourite topic of investors, sector commentators and analysts – many of whom claim we are about to enter a new energy era with cheap and abundant shale gas leading the charge. But on closer examination the incredible claims and […]

The Sufficiency Economy: Envisioning a Prosperous Way Down

When [we have] obtained those things necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain superfluities; and that is, to adventure on life now, [our] vacation from humbler toil having commenced. – Henry David Thoreau 1. Introduction If a society does not have some vision of where it wants to be or what it […]

What Happens After the Long Recession?

In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer a question from a reader about what happens as The Long Recession plays out.

What’s Next In The Middle East?

What’s Next In The Middle East? While the missiles, planes and rockets fly over Gaza and Israel, both Hamas and the Israeli government have been engaged in a battle of social media. Hamas:   And Israel: It is a battle to shape the perceptions of the rest of the world. The IDF appears so far to […]

Peak Oil? More like Peak Canada

Good morning, students. The results from last week’s history test have been transconducted into your NeuroPads. Now, if you’ll all please disengage your BrainFeeds and start listening, I’ll be talking today about one of the most misunderstood episodes in Canadian history. This occurred over the first decade and a half of the 21st century. It […]

An American Oil Find That Holds More Than All of OPEC

Drillers in Utah and Colorado are poking into a massive shale deposit trying to find a way to unlock oil reserves that are so vast they would swamp OPEC. A recent report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office estimated that if half of the oil bound up in the rock of the Green River Formation […]

Very Few People Understand This Trend…

There are only a few people who get it: the era of cheap food is over. Global net population growth creates over 200,000 new mouths to feed ever single day. Yet supply of available farmland is diminishing each year due to development, loss of topsoil, peak production yields, and reduction in freshwater supply. Then there’s […]

Palestinians shoot down Israeli F-16 fighter jet in Gaza: Israel Re-escalates: Mobilizes 75,000

Earlier today, air raid sirens went off in Tel Aviv, and even Jerusalem was supposedly in danger of a missile attack: hardly the deescalation Israel was hoping to see. Sure enough, the ball is in Bibi’s court and he wastes not time: NETANYAHU CONVENING MINISTERS TO APPROVE RESERVES CALL-UP; TV ISRAEL PLANNING TO CALL UP […]

150 Seconds Of “You Can’t Handle The European Truth” From Kyle Bass

“A popular revolt will happen” is how Kyle Bass sums up the endgame from kicking the can in Europe. Dismissing the headline-making ‘But, Blackrock is buying European bonds’, Bass reminds Bloomberg’s Stephanie Ruhle that very few ever get the crises correct and that the herd will keep buying things until it blows apart. With massively […]

U.S. Escalation Against Iran Would Carry High Cost for Global Economy

The world economy would bear substantial costs if the United States took steps to significantly escalate the conflict with Iran over its controversial nuclear programme, according to the findings of a Federation of American Scientists’ (FAS) special report released here Friday. Based on consulations with a group of nine bipartisan economic and national security experts, […]

Anarchy in the USA

TO HELP PEEPS AFFECTED BY SANDY CLICK HERE http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/ http://submedia.tv/stimulator/2012/11/15/anarchy-in-the-usa This week: 1. 4 year hopium dose 2. I have a drone! 3. Foreclosure defense in Colorado 4. U.N. out of Haiti 5. Netanyahu: The butcher of Jerusalem 6. Bob Ross to the rescue. 7. Anarchy in Europe 8. P.O.S. fuck your stuff 9. Mututal […]

Geopolitics: As the North American Shale Revolution Unfolds

Every modern industrial nations requires affordable energy to run its industry, commerce, and to keep its citizens comfortable within their homes. For the last few decades, energy consumers in the western world have lived under the threat of having their energy supplies cut off, by belligerent suppliers in OPEC, Russia, and other bullying dictatorships. Preliminary […]

Two dead and two missing in US Gulf of Mexico oil rig fire

Two people are missing and four injured after a fire on a shallow-bed oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast, officials say. The four people who were hurt were in critical condition in hospital, a spokeswoman said. Earlier, the US Coast Guard said two people had died. The oil production platform […]

The peak oil crisis: alternative futures

A paper published recently by the IMF gives us some insight into how oil prices and availability might affect the global economy in the next decade. The paper, entitled Oil and the World Economy: Some Possible Futures, starts with the statistic that global oil production grew by 1.8 percent annually from 1981 to 2005, then […]

World population report challenges Africa on family planning

The United Nations Population Fund ’s State of World Population 2012 report, is entitled “By Choice, Not by Chance: Family Planning, Human Rights and Development.” According to the report released by The United Nations Population Fund, making voluntary family planning available to everyone in developing countries would reduce costs for maternal and newborn health care […]

There Will Be War In The Middle East

The military action that we are watching in the Middle East right now is just a preview of coming attractions.  Tensions in the region are rising with each passing day, and all sides have been anticipating future conflicts and preparing for war for decades.  It would be wonderful if everyone could sit down, forgive each […]

US coal exports by type, destination, and port

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration based on U.S. Census Bureau data. Note: For top seven ports totaling 94% of U.S. exports. Due to limited volumes, South and Central America are combined. About 75% of U.S. coal exports were shipped to Europe and Asia in 2012, continuing the growth of the past few years with exports […]

Even Hubbert Was Wrong

The founding myth of “peak oil” has always been Hubbert’s 1956 prediction that US oil production would peak in the early 1970s and decline, never to rise again. This myth is being disproved as we speak. Thanks to technological breakthroughs, US oil production is rising again: The trend is set to continue. From yesterday’s Los […]

China Looks to Emulate US Shale Success

In the last couple of years, shale exploration and production has sparked a petrochemical renaissance in the United States which has not gone unnoticed. With over 50 new petrochemical projects planned in the United States, the country is on track to become the world’s top gas producer in 2014. According to the U.S. Energy Department, […]

Professor Charles Hall: EROEI, Biophysical Economics

Charles A.S. Hall, professor at State University of New York in the College of Environmental Science & Forestry, speaks of his research in biophysical economics and the concept of energy returns on investment. Opener of the seminar: Eva Alfredsson

BP to pay record criminal penalty in US spill settlemen

BP will pay a record criminal penalty to resolve some of its liability for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in a deal to be announced by the U.S. Justice Department as soon as Thursday, a source told Reuters. The source familiar with discussions did not disclose the actual amount of BP’s payment but said it […]

John Michael Greer: Deterrence in an Age of Decline

There are times, and this is one of them, when I wonder if somewhere in the last few weeks we all somehow got teleported into an alternate universe where nothing works quite the same way as were used to.  That feeling may be a bit easier to understand when I mention that I’ve just been […]

Peak Oil’s Impact: Relief Efforts

Imagine, if you can, that there is a resource everyone likes to use.  They like to use it for convenience: it lets them go places, have neat things, eat the foods they want no matter what time of year it is…. Now imagine, if you can, that this resource begins to become scarce. Imagine that the […]

Israel responds to Hamas attacks with campaign of airstrikes

The Israeli military commenced what government officials are calling a “widespread campaign on terror sites and operatives in the Gaza Strip, chief among them Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets” after suffering nearly a week of rocket attacks on Israeli territory. The Israel Defense Forces opened Operation Pillar of Defense with an airstrike on a car […]

Canada Oil Sands Continue to Gain Global Attention

Canada holds the largest crude oil deposits outside the Middle East, most of which are in the form of oil sands, and are expected to play a major role in supplying the world’s future energy requirements, stated a new report by energy experts GlobalData. The new research states that Canada is one of the leading […]

Kenya: State of world population

The government is facing a new challenge in the form of a runaway population explosion and pressure is on for the authorities to explore options that include providing mothers with family planning aid. And as NTV’s Brenda Wanga reports, policies on regulating the number of children per couple may not even be enough. http://www.ntv.co.ke

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