Creating New Business Sectors and Sectors of Society
In most cases in the past sustainability has been driven by existing companies and organizations. Gradually a new research and consulting sector has developed that supplies knowledge and services, but the introduction of lower emission vehicles, unleaded fuel and white-goods free of freon have not created the need for large numbers of new companies or [...]
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 [...]
Peak Oil Consequences are Generally Underestimated
Most of the experts who discuss Peak Oil are technology or sustainability experts. They tend to view Peak Oil as a gradual decline in our ability to transport, which will lead to a gradual decline in economic circumstances. Investors, however, look five to ten years ahead in their estimates and react to their forecasts NOW. [...]
Analyzing the Trajectory
A number of people, not only at the International Energy Agency and ASPO, analyze the awe-inspiring trajectory of global oil production. Declining production volumes could be compared to a comet that is going to strike the aspect of global civilization that is most vulnerable – the global economy. Below is a recent example that indicates [...]
Global Energy Denial
In the past few years the insight has arisen among an increasing number of energy experts that we are facing a problem with energy supply that had not previously been anticipated. This regards the issue of Peak Oil and the fact that we are not going to easily and inexpensively have access to large volumes [...]
Saudi Oil Reserves Overstated
Saudi Arabia, the country that produces some eight to nine per cent of global oil production with more than eight million barrels, and has been hoped to be able to increase production to off-set reductions in the production of other countries, has overstated its reserves. http://www.newser.com/story/111638/peak-oil-looms-saudi-supply-overstated.html This makes Global Energy Transformation an even more pressing [...]
The Price Will Not Be the Main Problem
Many experts believe that a decrease in the oil supply will lead to higher prices, and that this will immediately reduce demand for oil, at little significant cost to the economy. A higher energy price will increase investments in renewable fuel technologies, which will at short notice increase the volumes of renewable fuels that are [...]
New book: "Overcoming Overuse: Energy Transformation for a World Gone Fad"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 13, 2009 CONTACT: M.J. Szimanski Washington, DC 202.560.7516 mike@buzzbinder.com Mats R. Larsson Höör, Sweden 0046-733-552411 mats@getinstitute.com Mats R. Larsson, Global Energy Transformation Institute (GETI) Founder, Releases Latest Book: “Overcoming Overuse: Energy Transformation for a World Gone Fad” Washington, DC – Mats R. Larsson, President and Founder of the Global Energy Transformation [...]
An affordable truth – Paul Krugman
In a column in The New York Times, op-ed columnist and Nobel Prize Winner Paul Krugman argues that many opportunities to reduce energy consumption and lower emissions of CO2 come at a relatively low cost. One example in point is additional insulation of houses. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/opinion/07krugman.html Yes, this is true. However, a program to improve the [...]
Big business is an important resource, says Jared Diamond
An increasing number of environmentalists seem to re-evaluate some of their core views about how sustainability will be achieved. In a previous posting I referred an article in the Washington Post, saying that environmentalists increasingly view nuclear power as one of the solutions that will help us produce clean energy in the future. In an [...]
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