A Conference on "Climate Change Myths"

Way back in February 2007 I went to an Emerging Energies Technology meeting in Santa Barbara, and along to way picked up a book “ Unstoppab...

Future Oil Production

I first started writing about the future energy supply about six months or so before we founded The Oil Drum, and in one of my earliest post...

The Wicks Report - a gentle cough

Last week a report went to the British Government suggesting that nuclear power is an answer to their coming energy shortfall problems. ...

Other methods of breaking rock

I thought that this week we would expand the horizon of these talks a little, and talk about the general philosophy of breaking rock, since ...

Richard Heinberg’s “Blackout - Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis”

When this new book was about to be published the editors at The Oil Drum were offered a review copy, and I was offered the chance to provide...

How hot is the sea?

I am currently reading Richard Heinberg’s new book “Blackout – Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis,” and will, hopefully before long, ...

Of Trains, planes and Segways

If the world supply of crude is going to become tight a little sooner than the general public, and many governments, realize, then rates at ...