Of all the three +/- million words I’ve written since I started 2GreenEnergy, I don’t think I’ve ever gotten anything more glaringly wrong than peak oil. The first chapter of my first book, in fact, was an interview with the …
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Peak Oil May Be An Empty Concept, But Fossil Fuels Will Vanish Far Faster Than Most People Believe Nonetheless
A reader comments: The problem that most concerns me is not the shortage of oil but its abundance. Saudi Aramco, the Saudi (state owned) oil company is the world’s largest corporation with over $30 trillion dollars in assets including oil …
What If We Never Run Out of Oil?
Here’s a lengthy but excellent article from The Atlantic: “What If We Never Run Out of Oil?” It certainly is an interesting concept – one that I find quite credible. For instance, we have recently discovered untapped reservoirs of methane …
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National Security, Environmental Damage, Lung Disease, and Peak Oil
Readers may be interested in the conversation Glenn Doty and I are having on electric vehicles, as comments to my piece: Lateral Power, Distributed Generation, and the Third Industrial Revolution. Here’s another question for Glenn (and anyone else who would …
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About Matt Simmons, Contributor to “Renewable Energy Facts and Fantasies”
Matthew Simmons contributed to the book’s chapter on Peak Oil. Simmons served as energy adviser to U.S. President George W. Bush. His landmark book Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy points to the …
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Liquid Ammonia as Fuel — Summary
Like hydrogen as a fuel, liquid ammonia is a carrier of energy, as opposed to a source of energy. When we create ammonia out of nitrogen and hydrogen, we add energy to form a compound that can later be broken …
Liquid Ammonia as Fuel
In a recent post, Bill Paul points out that the reaction to the oil spill in the Gulf should be algae-generated biofuels. But why not liquid ammonia, as Peak Oil pundit Matt Simmons would suggest? As Matt old me when …
Peak Oil
I’m hoping that readers of my upcoming book on renewables will enjoy my conversation with Matt Simmons, arguably the loudest voice on the issue of peak oil. And, although the subject remains controversial, it’s probably a good deal less so …
Ammonia as Fuel
During my interview with Matt Simmons on “peak oil” for my book on renewables, I asked about suggestions for averting the imminent disaster he sees associated with maintain the status quo in energy generation and consumption. The response: Large wind …
Renewable Energy and Morality
In the talk Dr. David Mills gave recently in on solar thermal, he closed by telling his audience that renewable energy was “a moral issue,” meaning, of course, that we as a species have a series of related ethical obligations …
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