Posts Tagged ‘peak’
Blood and Oil – Trailer – Featuring Michael Klare
http://www.bloodandoilmovie.com
Now Available on DVD
Featuring the author of Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet; Blood and Oil; and Resource Wars.
“Of course it’s about oil, we can’t really deny that.”
Fmr. CENTCOM Commander General John Abizaid
Synopsis:
The notion that oil motivates America’s military engagements in the Middle East is often disregarded as nonsense or mere conspiracy theory. Blood and Oil, a new documentary based on the critically-acclaimed work of Nation magazine defense correspondent Michael T. Klare, challenges this conventional wisdom to correct the historical record. The film unearths declassified documents and highlights forgotten passages in prominent presidential doctrines to show how concerns about oil have been at the core of American foreign policy for more than 60 years — rendering our contemporary energy and military policies virtually indistinguishable. In the end, Blood and Oil calls for a radical re-thinking of US energy policy, warning that unless we change direction, we stand to be drawn into one oil war after another as the global hunt for diminishing world petroleum supplies accelerates.
Duration : 0:2:37
Main Stream Media in denial shock over 2008 Global IEA Peak Oil report.
A Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security warns that supplies of cheap, easily accessible oil will start to diminish by 2013.
The Taskforce group, which includes Virgin, Yahoo, Solarcentury and transport operator Stagecoach, wants the Government to dramatically increase investment in clean energy and renewables to avoid an energy crisis.
The IEA figures to 2030 are based on the assumption, that governments invest in clean energy and renewables while using coal for liquid fuels, transferring additional transportation fuels to natural gas and fully develop African oil production before a 2015 deadline. The efficiency of used energy must also be drastically improved during the ongoing decline.
Furthermore:
In most cases, basic Victorian engineering skills, adapted in modern industries could improve efficiency by 60-80% as scientist have pointed out in the past. The illusion of unlimited and cheap energy has caused modern engineering to lose these basic skills while planning new projects and industry complexes.
Most industrial energy is wasted on pumping liquids & gases by brute force rather than good engineering.
(I will cut a short video together on that subject)
http://www.iea.org
http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/
Key Graphs:
http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/key_graphs_08/WEO_2008_Key_Graphs.pdf
Fact sheets:
http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/docs/weo2008/fact_sheets_08.pdf
Duration : 0:9:54
Posted in clean energy | 
Tags: $8, 7%, Association, decline, energy, Fossil, Fuel, fuels, IEA, international, liquid, MSM, oil, peak, Renewables, solar | 
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“Clean” energy bill passes House high costs and smart grids are coming
The Stench of Truth 179 The 2009 “clean” energy bill has passed the House and the new higher costs for energy are the least of your worries if this is passed into law. Buried inside is smart grid implementation and peak demand reduction. It won’t happen overnight but in the end “they” will decide how much power you’re allowed to have and when you exceed it you will be cut off. Call your senator and tell them to stop this monstrosity. There is more coming after this, water will be next.
Duration : 0:6:2
Energy Crisis, A Discussion with Matt Simmons
Amidst skyrocketing oil prices, considerable financial activity in the oil market, and increased gas prices, producing and consuming nations alike are concerned about efficiency and supply. World Energy recently spent an afternoon with Matthew Simmons, president of the energy investment firm Simmons & Company International and author of Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy, to hear his perspective on oil supplies, pump prices, distributed generation and a return to post–World War II practices.
Oil prices have been too low for too long, he says. “The problem isn’t that the prices are going up, it is that they have been so low for so long that we have been caught in a correction,” explains Simmons.
The problem, notes Simmons, is not strategy; it is having a game plan for execution. In the interview, Simmons focuses beyond “peak oil” and looks at the immediate nature of the energy situation, examining both near-term solutions and long-term ones.
Focusing on renewable sources, Simmons points out the current production from these sources is roughly 1.50 percent, but that 1.50 percent is nonetheless a significant contribution. He then explains the actual potential to be unlocked in energy produced from wind and geothermal and the importance of distributed generation.
Duration : 0:9:58
RICHARD HEINBERG on OUR POST-CARBON FUTURE
Ecologist Richard Heinberg, author of The Party’s Over, Power Down, The Oil Depletion Protocol, and Peak Everything, talks about energy wars, global climate change, the false solutions of natural gas, coal and nuclear power and points the way to a peaceful post-carbon future through efficiency, conservation and localization of decentralized renewable energy sources. For more: http://www.richardheinberg.com/
Duration : 0:50:59
Posted in renewable energy sources |
Tags: decentralization, down, energy, everything, heinberg, localization, over, party's, peak, Power, renewable, richard, the, wars |
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