The recent ASPO/SEAI event, which was headlined by a presentation from the IMF on Chapter 3 of their April 2011 WEO, has prompted some further thinking on the issue of Ireland’s strategy for risk management and resilience building. Probably the most important statement by Dr. Kumhof was If there is a non-negligible risk of future [...]
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Reducing Ireland’s Oil Dependence: some initial thoughts
Posted in ASPO, Comment, Energy Demand, Future Scenarios, Oil, Transport on October 16, 2011 | 3 Comments »
SEAI Seminar: Energy Security and Competitiveness in a Rapidly Changing World
Posted in Advocacy, ASPO, Energy Supply, Fossil Fuels, Future Scenarios, Ireland, News, Reports on June 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Mind the gap!
Posted in Advocacy, ASPO, Comment, Electricity, Energy Demand, Energy Supply, Fossil Fuels, Future Scenarios, Ireland, News, Renewables on May 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Watching Barack Obama walk off Airforce One this morning in Dublin airport into a very blustery day, it inspired me to take a look at the Eirgrid website to see what kind of power our wind turbine fleet is generating.
IMF WEO 2011: Oil Scarcity, Growth, and Global Imbalances
Posted in ASPO, Comment, Energy Demand, Energy Supply, Future Scenarios, Oil, Reports on May 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) World Economic Outlook (WEO) published last month (April 2011) makes for very interesting reading, Chapter 3 specifically: “Oil Scarcity, Growth, and Global Imbalances”. Considering the findings of the report, it’s remarkable the relatively little press the report has received, and I can find none in the Irish media. All [...]
A Review of Green Energy Growth Prospects at the Oil Economy Maxima
Posted in Advocacy, ASPO, Future Scenarios, Ireland, Oil on May 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Energy is the primary resource of ecological and economic growing systems (Robert U. Ayres & B. Warr 2005). Conventional economic theory does not recognise this simple obvious truth to its full extent; preferring to convolute and substitute. Well it appears this works no more… There is growing global concern that inefficient energy consumption in the [...]
BP CEO admits need for entirely new ways of handling “low-probability, high-impact” risks
Posted in Advocacy, Comment, Guest Post, International, Oil on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
BP “did not have the tools” to contain a deep-water oil leak, as they now admit. Their failure with that risk must now raise profound questions about how they handle other risks, in particular the threat that global oil production will fall prematurely, ambushing an oil-addicted world economy. That risk, “peak oil” as it is known, worries growing numbers of people, not least in and around the oil industry. But BP’s approach to it, until now, has been to pour scorn on the worriers. The company is a cheerleader in the global oil industry’s effort to persuade society not to be concerned about peak oil.
Government rejects call for greater energy security
Posted in Electricity, Energy Supply, Gas, Ireland, Oil, tagged Electricity, Energy Security, Fine Gael, Gas, Ireland, Oil, Simon Coveney on May 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Fine Gael’s frontbench spokesperson for energy, Deputy Simon Coveney, had his private members motion to improve Ireland’s energy security voted down by government recently.
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Reducing Ireland’s Oil Dependence: additional thoughts
Posted in Advocacy, ASPO, Comment, Energy Demand, Energy Supply, Oil on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Following hard on the heels of our event last Monday, today I read two recently published articles which prompted further thinking on how to/impact of reducing our oil demand: A brief economic explanation of Peak Oil by Chris Skrebowski Graph 3 Shows the development of oil prices and illustrates the $10/year trend (red line) The [...]
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