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Welcome to the Permanent Recession – Food and Transportation Prices Rising

March 09, 2010

This is a guest post by Brian Gordon. If employment is inversely proportional to oil prices (it is), and oil prices are only going to trend up…then employment by ...

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Drumbeat: March 9, 2010

March 09, 2010

Shell's discounted bid for Arrow reflects the present world oversupply of gas The bid and Arrow's decision to take it seriously despite the price discount reflect the much ...

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More on sun-climate relations

March 09, 2010

Four new papers discuss the relatiosnhip between solar activity and climate: one by Judith Lean (2010) in WIREs Climate Change, a GRL paper by Calogovic et al. (2010), ...

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Nation's First Net Zero School Coming to Kentucky

March 08, 2010

Warren County Kentucky is building the first net-zero energy school in the country.  Richardsville Elementary School will operate free of the grid by generating its own renewable energy, ...

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Report Says LEDs in Short Supply

March 08, 2010

A new report from technology research corporation iSuppli warns that we're facing a global LED shortage in 2010.  Hooray! Why am I cheering?  Because the reason for this shortage ...

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Offshore wind farm construction - more pictures

March 08, 2010

After showing you pictures of offshore wind turbine foundations in this story, I am pleased to be able to now post pictures of the above-the-water parts, before their ...

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Drumbeat: March 8, 2010

March 08, 2010

How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile ...

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Road Transportation Is the Greatest Culprit in Global Warming

March 07, 2010

A new study from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies has identified on-road transportation as the most significant overall source contributing to global warming. Power generation, while ...

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Test results from nuclear stimulation of oil and gas reservoirs

March 07, 2010

Hmmm! Well, the tone of some the comments on my last post--dealing with nuclear development of oil shale, both recently and when I initially posted it on The ...

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Drumbeat: March 7, 2010

March 07, 2010

Energy world is in a new mode The title of this year's conference, “Energy: Building a New Future,” reflects that renewed optimism. But it also suggests that, while the ...

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Should you pay down debt?

March 06, 2010

A few weeks ago we mentioned the possibility in a future Campfire of discussing paying down debt. I know some readers often talk about paying down debt as ...

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A mistaken message from IoP?

March 06, 2010

The Institute of Physics (IoP) recently made a splash in the media through a statement about the implications of the e-mails stolen in the CRU hack. A couple ...

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The Peak of Humanity - John Kinhart's Comic

March 06, 2010

John Kinhart gave us permission to reprint this piece from sorrycomics. Is this your view of peak oil? Or do your see things differently? ...

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Arctic Methane on the Move?

March 06, 2010

Methane is like the radical wing of the carbon cycle, in today’s atmosphere a stronger greenhouse gas per molecule than CO2, and an atmospheric concentration that can change ...

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Drumbeat: March 6, 2010

March 06, 2010

CERAWEEK - Stable oil prices shouldn't breed complacency HOUSTON (Reuters) - Oil company executives should not get too complacent about how oil prices settled in the $70-$80 a ...

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Save Your Battery: Unplug Your Laptop

March 05, 2010

A recent article from Lawrence Berkely Laboratory suggests that readers should 'Pull the plug. Your battery will thank you.' Researcher Venkat Srinivasan writes about batteries and battery ...

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Drumbeat: March 5, 2010

March 05, 2010

Want the Good Life? Your Neighbors Need It, Too We live in a world of deep inequality, and the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. ...

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The Endurance of University Data Records - Be Discouraged

March 04, 2010

Much has been made of the destruction or loss of data from the files of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia. ...

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The Endurance of University Data Records - Be Discouraged

March 04, 2010

Much has been made of the destruction or loss of data from the files of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia. ...

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The Endurance of University Data Records - Be Discouraged

March 04, 2010

Much has been made of the destruction or loss of data from the files of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia. ...

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