Climate change is a problem of fossil fuel dependency, and solving it requires reducing that dependency quickly and dramatically.
… Peak oil is welcome Richard Heinberg | 7th August 2008 Comment Peak Oil Carbon Climate Change Coal Gas Fossil … contraction faces a tough battle. The peaking in production rates of oil, coal and …
Wind, solar and hydro together generated 14.6% of Britain's electrical energy in 2015, the highest ever, writes Grant Wilson. They also peaked at 22% of electricity over the week of Christmas - another British record.
… highest ever, writes Grant Wilson. They also peaked at 22% of electricity over the week of … renewables of wind, solar and hydro peaked at 22% of Britain's electrical energy … ever daily percentage of solar generation, peaking on Sunday 7th June at 8.9% - another …
The recent U-turn by of some of the UK's leading environmentalists - and one-time nuclear energy opponents - on the issue of nuclear energy, has caused vigourous debate in the media. Their reasoning is that we simply don't have the capacity to produce enough renewable energy to meet our needs. But as this comprehensive Ecologist report from 2007 shows the UK is really a renewable energy powerhouse.
… impending scarcity. Without doubt, oil has peaked. Not only is less crude being found; … But that is now in the past. Now it is really peak oil that is behind the wheel of the car. Peak oil is driving the rise in price and …
As the Government commits to a high-tech revolution in the home - meters that can be read remotely and may help alter energy habits - questions are raised about data security... and whether any of us will be interested
… And Technology Green Living Smart Meter Off-peak Electricity Gas Miliband Ed Bills Money … example by using electricity in cheaper, off-peak times. Great Britain will be the first …
There will be enough fossil fuel-burning stuff - cars, homes, factories, power plants - built by next year to blow through our carbon budget for a 2 degrees Celsius temperature rise. Never mind staying below a safer, saner 1.5 degrees of global warming, warns STEPHEN LEAHY
… is over, I have to go,” he finally said. Peak and sharply decline I couldn’t accept … says that annual global CO2 emissions need to peak and sharply decline before 2020. Wait …
None of the various technofixes on offer alter the fact that humanity has to learn to stop living on the last drops of cheap energy, and to start living within its means
… of the national economy improved. With the peak of North Sea oil and gas production, and … tar sands are a 'climate crime'; for peak oil experts, they can never do the job of …
A ten-year campaign opposing a Shell gas pipeline in a remote cornor of Ireland is documented in a major new film - The Pipe - and has become a focal point for a community's right to oppose corporations and central government
… up to 60 per cent of Ireland's gas, at peak supply. Many different planning …
Britain could become a ‘carbon-free’ country in just twenty years, according to a new report published by the Wales-based Centre for Alternative Technology.
… when they detect that the grid is at peak load. Paul Allen, Development Director at …
Within two years, Britain could be facing a series of blackouts and the ignomony of importing the resource it once considered so plentiful from a host of politically unstable countries.
… is insufficient and that, during periods of peak demand, there is too little margin for … failure in periods of heavy demand. Once peak periods were confined to the frosty … all night as cheaper electricity during off peak hours encourages 24 hour working. Most of …
The International Energy Agency's latest World Energy Outlook is calling for increased investment in new oil and gas, writes Oliver Tickell, while minimising the fast-growing and ever lower-cost contribution to world energy supply of renewables like wind and solar.
… of new solar PV and wind power plants will peak in 2030. However the IEA fails to explain …
Immediate moratorium on all activity by oil and gas industries would help safeguard the local community and ecosystem as well as reduce potential carbon emissions
… resources could lie there. Boom and bust Speaking at the annual Arctic Frontiers … tar sands are a 'climate crime'; for peak oil experts, they can never do the job of …
Increased production from US fracking operations is a major reason for the drop in oil prices, writes Kieran Cooke. But there are warnings that the industry now faces an existential crisis from which it may never recover, as the financial sector faces the prospect of worthless shares and $100s of billions of defaulted debt.
… based in the US, says reserves are likely to peak and fall off rapidly, far sooner than the …
In the US, gas-extraction in the Marcellus Shale has been linked to pollution and social conflict. Now Halliburton, Chevron and Exxon, among others, want to bring the so-called 'fracking' process to Europe, reports Luke Starr
… tar sands are a 'climate crime'; for peak oil experts, they can never do the job of …