As It Happens: California shale oil
An interview with Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes on how the oil industry managed to overestimate the amount of extractable oil in a California shale formation by a truly astonishing amount: about fourteen billion barrels. Listen on CBC Radio....
Melting of Antarctic Ice Sheet Unstoppable, Will Raise Sea Levels Worldwide
Credit: Between The Lines | Download Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Richard Heinberg, senior fellow-in-residence at the Post Carbon Institute and author of 11 books on energy and the environment. Here he discusses the recent reports on melting ice in...
What Happened to My 13 Billion Barrels?
In 2011, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the US Department of Energy commissioned INTEK Inc., a Virginia-based consulting firm, to estimate how much oil might be recoverable from California’s vast Monterey Shale formation. Production of tight oil was...
About the Public Energy Art Kit
Lead artist Steve Lambert introduces the project. Much more at energy-reality.org/art/. About the Public Energy Art Kit from Steve Lambert on Vimeo.
Next-Generation Infrastructure
This spring, yet another Presidential appeal for fixing the nation’s “raggedy” infrastructure (his word choice) failed to stir a response from Congress. However, bolder moves elsewhere to renew these critical services are reported here. I’m highlighting the following initiatives...
Introducing YOUR Public Energy Art Kit
It is time to take an honest look at our energy predicament and change course. If we don’t, and soon, it’s likely that we’ll find ourselves in a world starved of energy, resources and even basic sustenance. Our request...
The Peak Oil Crisis: Parsing 2014
Some 15 years ago when the current concept of peak oil was posited, it was all going to be simple. Somewhere in the early part of the 21st century oil production was going to reach a peak and...
Gila River Diversion Would Be a Costly Failure
As the December deadline approaches for New Mexico to decide whether or not it will proceed with a controversial diversion of the Gila River, a former director of the state’s Interstate Stream Commission (ISC) testified on April 30 to the ISC...
What to Do While Waiting (for the Crash)
Radio Ecoshock There’s a movie "What to Do in Denver When You are Dead". Now we know this carbon-based civilization is dead-ending in bankruptcy and climate chaos. What are we supposed to do while we wait for collapse? It’s...
Supply or demand? Peak oil with Richard Heinberg and James Hamilton
For our interviews today, we look at peak oil theory with Richard Heinberg and James Hamilton. Heinberg argues that we have reached peak oil supply and that will have major economic consequences for our future prospects of economic growth....