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Here are some links relevant to energy conservation and peak oil at the local level.
Everdale Environmental Learning Center
local biofuel production for farms
Dynamic Cities presentation...
What spurred this bit of research was an article about recycling waste cooking oil into biodiesel in Scotland.
Liz's original questions were:
Are there any municipalities with bio-diesel plants...
Algae -> biodiesel
Hybrid Hydrogen-Carbon economy
Energy Transitions Past and Future
Biobutanol better than Ethanol
Interesting combination of algae and biobutanol fermentation
Biofuel via...
Carbon Footprint Calculator
Risks of the oil transition
Peak Oil and Climate Change
Oil Sands Climate Math
Oil Sands water issues
Simple Climate Tax Scheme
Simple Climate Tax Scheme: the story of...
In a previous article we discussed peak oil math.
We saw that in Canada our oil sands operations produce about 12 barrels per second in 2007.
Depending on the technology used to extract the bitumen...
Wikpedia on micro cogeneration
Honda Freewatt system
more on Honda Freewatt system
WhisperGen system
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Population pressures
Ammonia as a renewable fuel
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The Hydrogen Option
Growth is Madness blog site
the Elephant in the Room
Carolyn Baker: Hope...
Here's some benchmark figures to ponder (all in barrels per second).
World oil consumption:
1000
Canadian tar sands production rate:
12
Production from the largest oil field in world (Saudia...
Next time you read about a new oil discovery here are some rough measures that help put things in context.
1 million barrels ~ 1 hour of crude oil consumption in USA
1 billion barrels ~ 1 month of...
Peak Oil is a very difficult concept for many people to understand initially.
I believe this is because Peak Oil deals fundamentally with the behavior of a flow rate over time. Most people are able...
Peak Oil definition
Peak Oil - what is in a pair of words?
Peak Oil Analogy
Some Oil Math
Some Oil Rules of Thumb
picture = 1000 words
Gail on Peak Oil
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Peak Oil: What is in a definition?
There are lots of definitions of Peak Oil floating around in the literature.
One of those definitions in particular does the Peak Oil movement a disservice in my...
"Words shape action" says David Scott in his book Smelling Land.
Unfortunately the Peak Oil movement has settled on a particularly bad pair.
The average person hearing the of Peak Oil for the first...
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On 07 Apr 26 a blogger named Squalish wrote this paragraph on the Oil Drum blog site.
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On 07 Apr 26 an Oil Drum blogger named Squalish (http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2499) wrote a response to a debate about government's role in climate change policy. In...
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