 A new energy pessimism emerges
(Asia Times: Fri, 17 Aug) When "peak oil" theory was first widely publicized in such path-breaking books as Kenneth Deffeyes' Hubbert's Peak (2001), Richard Heinberg's The Party's Over (2002), David Goodstein's Out of Gas (2004), and Paul Roberts' The End of Oil (2004), [1] energy-industry officials and their government associates largely ridiculed the notion.
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 Devangshu Datta: Ten years from now
(Business Standard India: Fri, 17 Aug) There are certain pre-qualifiers for becoming the prime minister of India. A) Ideally candidates should hail from the Nehru-Gandhi clan. B) If A is not possible, it is okay to have a namesake (Chandrasekhar, Rao, Shastri, Desai, Singh) who has played international cricket.
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(re: Thu, 16 Aug) The Queens-based non-profit Confluence Theatre Company will present the latest in eco-friendly theatre, The (re)CYCLE Plays , Sept. 15 in Socrates Sculpture Park, along the waterfront of Long Island City.
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 Current Issue:
(California Aggie: Mon, 13 Aug) 7 p.m. Davis Library's Blanchard Room, 315 E. 14th St. Watch Oil, Smoke and Mirrors, part of the bi-monthly Make Peace and 9/11 film series. The film explores issues of Peak Oil and the War on Terror. Admission is free with donations are accepted.
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 No August vacation for the stock market
(Salon.com: Thu, 16 Aug) Asian markets are in free fall and Hank Paulson warns of an economic "penalty" -- and that was before the release of the latest bad housing data
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 Charcoal - fuel or fertiliser?
(Trinidad Express: Mon, 13 Aug) I received an e-mail comment from a reader in Tasmania on my article, "Peak Oil - expensive food" (Express, July 30), pointing to the research on "agrichar" or "biochar". The reader was responding to my view that in T&T we have to seek an agricultural system that is less dependent on fossil fuels.
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 ‘Green’ energy can be affordable
(Otago Daily Times: Thu, 16 Aug) INVESTIGATIONS by three Otago Girls High School pupils in the United Kingdom have shown ‘‘climate friendly’’ power sources can be affordable, despite common misconceptions in New Zealand they are not.
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Ultra-deep drilling for oil is simply a red herring as prices militate against it
