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CATEGORY: ENERGY, PEAK OIL — 05.FEB.2015 Sea Change Radio The Latest Oil Glut—Once Bitten, Twice Shy —
It comes as little surprise that the author of a book entitled Snake Oil: How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future is a critic of the natural gas industry and a proponent of peak oil theory. Host Alex Wise reviews the issues with Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute and gets his perspective on how plunging oil prices will affect the energy and transportation industries; the status of the North American natural gas boom; how the turbulence may alter consumer behavior in the near term; and the need for sound policy to guide us through the long-term challenge of living in a post-carbon world. GP comment: Heinberg is solid as usual, though if you have heard his other interviews in the last six months, you will not find much new here. Original Show Pub Date: 27.Jan.2015 CATEGORY: COLLAPSE — 10.FEB.2015 C-Realm Podcast Twilight's Reach —
KMO and John Michael Greer talk about the two novels Greer published last year. The first is Twilight's Last Gleaming, a geo-political thriller where a declining United States and a resurgent China come to the brink of all-out nuclear war. The other novel is Star's Reach: A Novel of the Deindustrial Future, which is set in a world shaped by the exhaustion of fossil fuels, where new social forms have replaced our familiar institutions and where new ways of inhabiting the North American continent have been necessitated by centuries of climate change. GP comment: I haven't read the books, but it's always interesting to get glimpses of possible future scenarios. Original Show Pub Date: 04.Feb.2015 CATEGORY: ENERGY — 21.JAN.2015 Radio EcoShock / Legalise Freedom A "Renewable World" Built on Fossil Fuels is Not a Renewable World —
The message for green-energy lovers and haters alike is simple: We can't keep this crazy civilization running just on the sun and wind, let alone on high doses of fossil fuels. When we stop being able to milk the billion year-pile of concentrated solar energy in the form of oil, gas, and coal, something WILL change. Energy expert David Fridley of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the Post Carbon Institute talks about the energy dilemma, diving deep into the specifics. Topics/points include ... Our energy matrix cannot be renewable until the renewable-energy technologies and sources can replicate themselves. Wind turbines, solar panels, and electric cars are all hobbled by the limitations of fossil fuel inputs for their creation and maintenance as well as by the specialized minerals needed for their creation. He acknowledges the psychology of the American energy consumer as a key problem, referencing former Energy Department Secretary James Schlesinger's axiom
that the American people only have two modes: complacency or panic. GP comment: This is one of the best reviews I've ever heard of the problems we face as demand for energy keeps rising but technology finds itself unable to compensate for the peak in global net energy. Must-listening! Original Show Pub Date: 14.Jan.2015 ~~ Original story title: Green Dreams - Future or Fantasy? MORE Get more energy clips on Grinning Planet's Energy, Peak Oil, and Resilience audio page, or get the most recent clips on all topics in our downloadable audio news and info feed. |
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