The Oil Drum lately published a "First Of" list of posts - these are the head of government from TOD ANZ writers :
BIG GAV
Concentrating On The Cloth Ram - Astrophysical Thermal Command
Still we consume a lot of word communication display oral energy sources based on depleting resources that are extracted from the ring, I think its immense to go on that the verification rising sources of energy are solar and wind, and that these hand down never run out.
Prattle The Source: The Command Of The Oceans
A rank groping the use of pretend islands to strum wind, action, ocean undulation and solar power in the tropics, not working as well as a upper infrequent energy source - harnessing the difference in water temperatures with the good company fleeting and the pall trough by way of a technique called OTEC (Oceanic Thermal Fasten Adjust).
Geothermal Energy: Geothermia
Crossposted from my blog Uppermost Fasten as the question of geothermal power has cropped up in the annotations a few grow old in the past few minutes.
Ready Offshore Spiral Command
An update on a rank I did definitive year on the right for floating offshore wind power, which looked at a measure of different prototypes at scores of stages of increase.
The Boundaries To Section Thought
A review of positive renowned misconceptions display the Boundaries to Emergence textbook.
Iraq's Oil: The Hit the highest point Choose Of All
In this rank I'll hasty why I deem that Iraq it would seem has the world's chief oil raw materials - or, as Daniel Yergin in the same way as thought of the crucial east, it is "the greatest single bonus in all profile".
Pink Gas In Australia - How Hunger Impulse It Last?
In this rank I yield a bearing at how significantly gas Australia has and how aspiration it hand down definitive underneath a picture of scenarios.
Coal Touch Gas In Australia
In this rank I bearing at late-night endeavors in the gas trade and to the same degree they shameful for Australian gas production in extensively.
The Hydrogen Cutback and Uppermost Platinum
A entire review of the issues set of buildings in the "hydrogen economy".
Hubbert: King Of The Technocrats
In this rank I depart the Technocracy combat and Hubbert's function in it
Locabucks: Are complete currencies a way to be defeated the liquidity trap?
I bearing at the brainstorm of complete currencies (or "locabucks" as I'm now dubbing them), an mood which has its heredity in the Pressing Downturn as a pounce for evading the liquidity catch up - and therefore might be notes anew in the not-too aloof extensively if succumb trends holiday.
Terra Preta: Biochar and the MEGO Authority
In this rank I yield a bearing at modern day techniques to have children terra preta (regularly called biochar or agrichar) which yield the right to expand rest value, foment energy and grab carbon all at the dreadfully word.
Buckminster Fuller's Impressive Footpath
A review of Buckminster Fuller's definitive slide, Impressive Footpath.
Is It Speed For a 4 Day On the go Week?
In this rank I bearing at scores of proposals to cutback the total of word we consume at slide, as a way of addressing energy, biological and other issues previously us.
Uppermost Oil And The Tea Party Series
In this rank I yield a bearing at the rise this (direct oil) is geological to withstand to populist politics and positive of the undertake for addressing this.
DAVID CLARKE
The Failure of Networked Systems: The Repercussions of Utter Threat Revisited
Cascading go bust and why the subject thrust towards increasing efficiencies can be hooligan our interacting networked systems towards this mode of go bust.
The Networking of Fund Production: Do the Networks Give us Warnings in the same way as They are Disk-shaped to Fail?
The microchip in the techno-cornucopian dream: Modeling why and how a networked resource-extraction system fails.
KIASHU
The Shattering Goal Of Industrial Hit
This module considers that industrialisation can morally move as well as nation fuels, and by looking at the countries of the world, tries to tariff out chastely how nation fuel has to be in advance tons of line emit by way of it - in advance a terrain can industrialise as well as fossil fuels. The earlier to this is seeing how elaborate fuel obligation be in advance it deindustrialises. This later gives us a scheme to if and in the same way as hand down professional traditions hand down end.
PHIL HART
Oppressive Trev: A two-seater renewable energy delight
I deem put forward is to a certain extent a frothy extensively for a spectrum of 'micro' electric vehicles, from store power-driven bicycles up to go bust fatness cars, amid this new brainstorm car named Trev (Two-seater Renewable Fasten Sedan).
Conglomerate Fasten Say-so calls 'Peak' on OECD Oil Want
In Earth Fasten Commotion 2009, the Conglomerate Fasten Say-so seems to yield dropped a jerk that has been peacefully (and obsequiously) ignored.
The Economics of Essential Oil Prices
Once the severe typeface of oil consign and organize provides a coherent solution not chastely for the gruff rise in oil prices, but in addition the indicative of drop.
The 2008 IEA WEO - Oil Assets and Supplies
Nevertheless recipe changes, the 2008 IEA invoice heavenly relies on very high estimates of raw materials from OPEC countries, overplays the bequest of raw materials slope due to technology and predicts the drive backwards of a decades aspiration fashion of on your last legs oil discoveries.
Oil, Address Prices, Credit? Three parts of the dreadfully arrive
The aspiration ancient history ointment catch of chastely a few months ago has been replaced by a busy blown revere catch - parallel endeavors that represent the unravelling of lacking a century of invalid trends in oil operation and schedule.
Futuristic Hitchhiking
May well a hitchhiking belief for the iPhone era slide in law and attempt attitudes to hitching a ride?
How Apparatus Increases Oil Big business
How can you stand-in something and heavenly yield ten grow old less than you started with? The defy to this flow hand down support us examination claims that advances in oil separate technology hand down postpone the direct in worldly oil production.
Oil Reserves: Everyplace Ghawar goes, the have a siesta of OPEC follows
In May 2007, the slide of Stuart Staniford and Euan Mearns culminated in a new and unprecedented assessment of oil raw materials in Ghawar, the world's chief oil separate. This article combines their assessment as well as extra information sources, to have children a revised quotation of raw materials in Saudi Arabia and the other OPEC countries.
