Presentations from ASPO Switzerland Conference
I have good news: the presentations are already online. They can be downloaded from the following link:
http://www.peakoil.ch/archiv.html
(First there are the anouncement and the program. The six presentations are below these materials.)
Yesterday, I came across an energy outlook from Llods (not sure anymore). ately I can't find it at the moment. I'll post that link too as soon as found the document again.
Regards
Polarbear:)
PS. Thanks for the links to the ASPO USA Presentations
Lloyd's/Chatham House study
Hi, PB
Thanks for the link to Swiss presentations... I will check them out.
Meanwhile, is this the link that you were after:
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publi...view/-/id/891/
Over-estimation in Alaska
USGS now expects to find only one-tenth of the oil that it previously expected to find in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA):
http://energy.usgs.gov/alaska/npra.html
This should be front-page news, but it isn't.
rm
James Schlesinger on peak oil
The video of Dr. James Schlesinger's presentation at the recent Peak Oil conference in Washington is now available.
A written transcript (with link to the video) was posted a few minutes ago:
http://www.energybulletin.net/storie...il-debate-over
Dr. Schlesinger served as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (1971-73), Secretary of Defense (1973-75), Director of the CIA and was the first Secretary of Energy (1977-79).
His wealth of experience at the highest levels of public administration is consolidated by his octogenarian wisdom, all of which make his observations worth considering (it's only 11 minutes).
-- RM
Adm Mullen speaks before the Energy Security Forum
I just found a speech of the Chairman of the JCS, Adm Mike Mullen, before the Energy Security Forum.
http://www.jcs.mil/speech.aspx?ID=1472
Polarbear
Adm. Mullen and RADM Rice
Thanks for that, PB... I had not seen it.
Mullen raises the usual points: fully burdened cost of fuel, the environmental and strategic imperative of reducing FF use, how we have taken cheap FF for granted, the need to achieve sustainability, the need for bright young minds with ideas, and the need to be mindful of complexities and multi-order effects.
One can only hope that behind the scenes, high-level military people like Adm. Mullen are pointing out to their high-level civilian counterparts that there are major risks on the home front re. energy supply.
He mentions hopelessness leading to radicalization, which is entirely true, and not only overseas... one wonders whether there could be trends in that direction here in North America, as people wonder what on earth happened to their dreams and expectations.
As for actually making progress toward sustainability, one might ask where the USA and Canada were in 1987 when the Brundtland Commission was trying to get things rolling. Their "Our Common Future" was a pretty level-headed document and spawned a flurry of conferences and initiatives, but the effort gradually fizzled out.
Meanwhile, the address by RADM Lawrence Rice at ASPO-Washington has been posted... well worth a look (18 mins):
http://aspo.tv/
World Energy Outlook 2010
The new energy outlook of IEA has been released yesterday. Some graphs and a summary can be found here: http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/
Regards
Polarbear
End of oil and more cooperation
Two new reports predict end of fossil fuels long before alternative energies will be available:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es100730q
and plead for greater cooperation between US, China, Brazil and India to develop low carbon energy:
http://www.cfr.org/publication/23321...nnovation.html