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That is a scary graph - as if Peak Oil was not serious enough. It looks to me to be clear enough as to what it suggests. However, given that current figures would seem to show that global crude oil pr ...

The reason I am posting this news article here, is that it seems to me that Zimbabwe's current problems with inflation, supplies, production, imports, could be indicative of what the rest of the world ...

A friend of mine in Govt circles told me that steam is definitely being discussed for the rail system and that the huge quantity of wood ( radiata pine ) we will have is being touted as a fuel. I doub ...

I have been wondering about how New Zealand's food situation might be affected by Peak Oil. Yes, our soils, climate, topography and low population should allow us to provide significantly more food th ...

what are you guys talking about?

It looks like they might be talking about some elephants preferring to fly on their backs - it's just more comfortable that way.

On the other hand, one o ...

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Any government which restrict the divine right of people to drive car will be overthrow .
Politicians know that as a fact , and they ARE elected by motorists
This is a basic freedom , only r ...

You have plenty of water now. In the future you may not. The wildcard is climate change.

As TonyPrep mentioned just above, New Zealand should still have plenty of water for the nation as a whol ...

There will be more pine trees available once New Zealand stops exporting logs, timber, pulp and paper and related products, but we still need to keep some timber to build houses for the influx of refu ...

What is your point? We should build "green" power stations because thats all the government will let us do?

You're right though. What we should do and what we will do are two very different things. ...

We should be looking into OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion). We have enough deep ocean around us, not too far from land.

No. That is what you "want" to do.

What we "should" do is powerdown ...

We should be looking into OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion). We have enough deep ocean around us, not too far from land.

Of course, ultimately, we need to work on reducing energy consumption ...

We have had ample warning about the failed nature of capitalism....in fact going back over one century. We simply chose to ignore the fundamentals of the author's logic, instead choosing to exagge ...

Professor Aleklett may well be correct that we will never release enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels to lead to the changes that have been proposed as likely ...

The Coal to Liquids idea is another example of people seeking any way they can, or we can, to continue our high energy, high resource lifestyles, economies, societies. Those of us who check into these ...

There would not appear to be any evidence to support the notion that humanity is moving toward sustainability. Quite the opposite.

We have oil, coal, and natural gas being consumed at far greater r ...