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Peak antibiotics - Aug 14

Posted on August 14, 2010, under Uutiset, Öljyhuippu.

- Guardian: Are you ready for a world without antibiotics?
- VOA: South Asia superbug is potential global problem
- Fears of a new superbug from Asia may be overblown, experts say
- Conflict of interest in ’superbug’ report: Indian health minister

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Peak predictions: mixing water and oil as global resources dwindle

Posted on August 12, 2010, under Uutiset, Öljyhuippu.

Oil and safe drinking water are on parallel courses to depletion – a scarcity that will lead to starvation, disease and warfare. The issue here is drinking water. And there is a lot less of that than seawater. Due to a number of management issues, made worse by climate change, drinking water is fast becoming a geopolitical resource to rival oil – a flashpoint at various places around the globe.

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Matthew Simmons: a tribute

Posted on August 10, 2010, under Uutiset, Öljyhuippu.

Energy Investment banker and leading peak oil proponent Matthew Simmons died suddenly on Sunday [Aug. 8], following an apparent heart attack. While Simmons did not come up with the idea of peak oil – geophysicist M King Hubbert first published the theory in the 1950s — he arguably did more than anyone to publicize it. It was Simmons’ 2005 classic Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy, that turned discussion of peak oil from a fringe environmental concern into something with business pages credibility.

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The end of prevention

Posted on August 8, 2010, under Uutiset, Öljyhuippu.

What if, a friend of mine proposed, we are not approaching a point that will tip us into a grand ecological catastrophe which we are called upon to prevent? What if we are in the middle of that catastrophe and it began some time ago?

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Renewables & efficiency - Aug 6

Posted on August 6, 2010, under Uutiset, Öljyhuippu.

-Fossil fuel subsidies are 10 times those of renewables, figures show
-Scaling Up Solar: The Global Implications of a New Study that Says Solar Power Is Cost Competitive with Nuclear Power
-Free solar panels and cheaper bill offered in exchange for use of roof by electricity firm
-Unity College Gives Solar Panels From Carter White House to China

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Deepwater Horizon: The aftermath

Posted on August 4, 2010, under Uutiset, Öljyhuippu.

With BP’s oil well close to being permanently sealed, we are beginning to gain more insight into the effects the blowout will have on oil production in the years ahead.

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Peak oil review - Aug 2

Posted on August 2, 2010, under Uutiset, Öljyhuippu.

A weekdly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The Macondo well
-In the Congress
-Quote of the Week
-Briefs

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UK Gov’t Department of Energy and Climate Change Pathways 2050 report - July 30

Posted on July 31, 2010, under Uutiset, Öljyhuippu.

-2050 Pathways Analysis
-UK energy scenarios: working with a flawed model
-DECC publishes plans for achieving 2050 targets
-DECC lays out six possible futures for low-carbon energy

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Gulf of Mexico reconsidered: building your house on salt

Posted on July 29, 2010, under Uutiset, Öljyhuippu.

A strategically timed item in the New York Times presents an overview of the geology that makes the Gulf of Mexico so rich in oil, how new technology has enabled us to track these deposits - and the risks we run to extract them. It was published Wednesday [July 28], one day before a special judicial panel in Boise, Idaho began to consider “how to bring order to the hundreds of civil lawsuits” stemming from BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. The seven judges will “consider which U.S. court, or courts, should oversee hundreds of spill-related suits by injured rig workers, fishermen, investors and property owners,”

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Renewables & efficiency - July 27

Posted on July 27, 2010, under Uutiset, Öljyhuippu.

-Councils key to meeting UK’s green energy target, report warns
-Property prices soar in the desert
-Clean Energy and the U.S. Handicap: One Man’s Story

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