Not Worth Fighting For?
I regularly meet people who are aware that the current level of activity to transform global energy systems and the way that these activities are financed and managed are way below what will prove to be necessary to create large volumes of renewable energy. We need to implement technologies for the production, distribution, and use [...]
Doing Nothing, or Very Little, is Not an Option
Despite increasing amounts of information about Peak Oil recently many people seem to think that we are on the right track and that climate change is the big problem. Sorry, we aren’t and it isn’t. We are increasingly falling behind and even people who understand this usually do not understand that we can do something [...]
Why Individual Change is Difficult
It is not easy to change patterns of life on a large scale. We may inform people about the consequences of our current life-styles. Yet, despite the knowledge about what we ought to do, it may be very difficult for people to radically change the way we live. There are several reasons for this: – [...]
Important Work But Need to Accelerate
So far activities to develop and implement renewable fuels and new energy technologies have resulted in small volumes of of these fuels and technologies in most countries. There is a need for large-scale investments in order to accelerate Global Energy Transformation and replace oil and old technologies on a large scale. This will require the [...]
Looking at Peak Oil the Wrong Way
Most people are looking at the Peak Oil issue the wrong way. They say: “We need to solve our energy situation in an economically efficient way!” This view comes from the sustainability debate, in which it is assumed that energy and oil will remain abundant for the foreseeable future. Peak Oil means that oil will [...]
Everybody Needs to Do More Than What Is Reasonable
We cannot just sit and wait for the consequences of Peak Oil to come upon us. We need to prepare strategies and action plans. This will be very difficult to do in a structured way once we are in the midst of a huge recession. We all need to do more than anyone could reasonably [...]
An Alternative Reason Behind the Financial Unrest
May the current financial unrest in part be due to the realization that oil is going to be short and that the only way to make up for this shortage will be to develop and implement renewable fuels on a large scale? Even if this is not yet the official explanation of the development in [...]
The Most Important Financial Issue to Worry About
The global economy faces a number of issues that people in the financial markets worry about right now. One is the US debt ceiling and the development of the financial situation in this country. Another issue, or a number of them, are the financial situations in EU countries like Greece and Ireland. Few people even [...]
The Big Difference
There is a big difference between the oil crisis that will arise as a consequence of Peak Oil and the crises of the seventies and eighties. Back then everybody knew that we only had to get an agreement with OPEC in order for them to turn the production on a full capacity. The oil crisis [...]
Systems Platform Projects
To transform energy systems on a large scale we need national and international systems platforms that make it easy for users of electric and biofuel vehicles to use them anywhere they want to go. We are definitely not there yet. I’m currently working on putting together project teams that aim at establishing such platforms in [...]
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