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An alternative version for three of the “key graphs” in IEA’s 2010 World Energy Outlook

This is a guest post from Dolores García, an independent researcher based in Brighton, UK. Recently Jorgen Randers (best known for being one of the co-authors of The Limits to Growth, 1972) asked me to do some modelling work on the World3-Energy model...

Assessing the energy implications of political intervention

This is a guest post from Robin Lovelace, a PhD student in energy research at the University of Sheffield, UK. Energy is back in the public consciousness and perhaps higher up political priority lists than at any time since the summer of 2008. Disrup...

Energy Efficiency Leads to Higher CO2 Emissions?

Energy efficiency leads to higher consumption of fossil fuel and therefore higher carbon dioxide emissions. Euan made this point in a recent discussion. It made me think. Euan's reasoning is that by increasing the energy efficiency we increase the en...

Tradable Energy Quotas: A policy framework for peak oil and climate change

This is a guest post by Shaun Chamberlin. Shaun is the co-author of the report described below, as well as the author of The Transition Timeline, and founder of Dark Optimism. On the 18th January 2011, the UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak...

Cycle-touring: a vision of post-peak holidays?

This is a guest post from Robin Lovelace (email: www (dot) lovelacerobin (at) yahoo (dot) com), a PhD student in energy research at the University of Sheffield, UK.

This post was inspired by single bicycle holiday: an Easter cycling adventure around the Spanish Pyrenees. While the experience proved that cycle holidays can be fun (its primary...

The Release of the Industry Taskforce Report on Peak Oil and Energy Security

This is a guest post from Erica Thompson, formerly with the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC Report) and now working on a PhD at Imperial College, London. She attended the ITPOES report launch on our behalf.

Today's (10th Feb 2010) launch of the second report of the Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and...

What difference would Nord Stream mean to European energy supply?

This is a guest post from Selene Rebane. She is from Estonia, has a degree in journalism and recently graduated from an MSc in International Relations from University of Bristol. She's particularly interested in energy issues in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

Nord Stream (also known as the Baltic Pipeline)...

How to Set Up and Run a Bicycle Repair Company

This is a guest post from Robin Lovelace (email: www.lovelacerobin@yahoo.com), a PhD student in energy research at the University of Sheffield, UK. Robin has recently set up RobRod's Repairs, a mobile bike repair business.

1. Introduction

Many of the articles that discuss the causes and effects of humanity's unprecedented energy use are entirely theoretical, offering little...

New World Model – EROEI issues

This is a guest post from Dolores García, an independent researcher based in Brighton, UK.

When I published the results on The Oil Drum of my New World Model, based on World3 (the “Limits to Growth” model) – see here, many of the questions and issues that people had were around EROEI. So I’m writing...