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Peak Oil for Policymakers DVD
Post Carbon Fellows Jason Bradford and David Fridley were quoted in an article in the English edition of Le Monde Diplomatique. The article on how Californians are responding to the twin challenges of peak oil and climate change also mentioned Post Carbon Institute and Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg.
Bradford examined his compost, reinvigorated by earthworms, and said that we needed to change the narrative and replace our negative addiction with a healthy one – like cultivating a garden and looking after the soil, things that have disappeared from the general consciousness: "California has a lot of cognitive dissonance. We have built our societies on a huge ecological debt, which we are paying for in anxiety. Our principal occupation should be restoring what we have pillaged."
Sapphire Energy, a competitor of Solazyme, hopes to use this process to produce 455m litres of "green crude" algae fuel a year by 2018. Sapphire – which is supported by Bill Gates and the Rockefeller family – boasts that its fuel can replace oil in existing refinement and distribution infrastructure. The production facility it is building in Las Cruces, New Mexico, will be the first commercial plant producing algae fuel. The only problem is that it could end up costing a billion dollars to produce a quantity of fuel that is tiny in comparison with domestic demand.
David Fridley is a former oil industry executive who is now an energy specialist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He explained: "Ultimately, these kinds of schemes are simply a supplement to fossil fuels, not a replacement, since every stage of their manufacturing is based on fossil fuel usage. The ultimate test for a true renewable is when the output of the fuel can provide the input to its own manufacture."
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