Here I will briefly summarise the papers from the first day of the Royal Society’s recent conference.
Sir David King - Chief Scientific Advisor
Energy for a sustainable future
A very solid presentation on climate change, stressing that due to inertia of the global system further warming over the coming decades is inevitable. As a consequence millions […]
Spending as much time reading, writing and talking about peak oil and energy as many of us here do I think it’s sometimes easy to forget just how small a minority we actually are.
10th and 11th this month I was at the Royal Society in London for their conference Energy… for the future. I […]
As a previous presenter I was invited to the IEE Faraday Lecture last week. The one-hour lecture promoting a career in engineering to students is aimed at 14-16 year olds and forms a significant part of the IEE’s education initiative. This year’s lecture is titled Emission Impossible – Can Technology Save the Planet?
The […]
On 10th and 11th of November 2005 ASPO USA held a conference titled Beyond Oil: Intelligent Response to Peak Oil Impacts.
I’ll just reproduce the key messages of the conference here and link to the absolutely fantastic coverage of the event from Stuart Staniford of The Oil Drum.
Key Messages:
1. A peak in world oil production is […]
On Wednesday 2nd November the Energy Institute held a conference titled Oil Depletion – Facing The Challenges unfortunately I was dodging riots in Paris and couldn’t be there but it seems that Claire Durkin, Head of Energy Markets Unit at the DTI made a very important announcement, she has been quoted as saying:
We can […]
I spent the weekend of the 2-4th Sept 2005 with The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) for their annual members meeting. CAT is located in West Wales, a four hour Friday afternoon drive for me through some beautiful countryside at the site of a disused slate mine. I’ve know about CAT for many […]
On 14th - 15th July 2005 I attended the Sustainable World conference organised by the Institute of Science in Society. This was Sustainable World’s first international conference bringing together independent scientists, economists, politicians, and activists to share knowledge and ideas for sustainable food systems as the industrial model is close to collapse.
The event was […]
PowerSwitch held a peak oil conference on the 16th of July at the BedZed zero emission urban development in Hackbridge, London. PowerSwitch was established in Autumn 2004 with the intention of raising awareness and discussion in the UK of the consequences of global oil depletion following the imminent peak in global oil production, and […]
From Friday 17th to Sunday 19th June 2005 I attended the Living on the Cusp seminar at Braziers Park in Oxfordshire, UK. The seminar was presented by Naresh Giangrande and covered peak oil, non-renewable alternatives to oil, renewable alternatives to oil, energy return on energy invested (EROEI), carrying capacity, ecological footprint, ghost acreage, exponential […]
Whilst I was personally unable to attend The Association For the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO) IV International Workshop on Oil and Gas Depletion 19-20 May 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, the workshop material and coverage of the event is now available online.
First and foremost the workshop (although I believe the term workshop is […]