Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: Black Canyon Highway, Boulder Dam, Colorado River, energy, Hoover Dam, hydroelectric power, spillways
Been writing a little bit about flood control, dams and spillways recently.
Enjoy your Christmas everybody.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: electricity, peak oil, Saudi Arabia, solar energy
Saudi Arabia is paying a heavy price for its continued reliance on oil to generate electricity. Its power plants consume 800,000 barrels a day of oil equivalent, Ziyad Al Shiha, the executive director of Saudi Aramco Power Systems, told reporters in May. With the price of crude above US$100 a barrel on international markets, the opportunity cost is high, making investments in alternative sources of power more attractive.
via Saudis kicking off major move into solar – The National.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: Alberta, Bow River, Canada, Cenex, crude oil, Enbridge, Express, North America, oil pipelines, pipelines, Rangeland, Suncor, tar sands, Trans-Mountain
Note — does not show product pipelines.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: energy, Natural gas, net energy, pipelines, transportation
From the EIA.
http://www.eia.gov/pub/oil_gas/natural_gas/analysis_publications/ngpipeline/ngpipelines_map.html
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2012, EIA, forecasts, oil price predictions, peak oil
It’s that time of year. Let’s get the ball rolling with an official govt. forecast. We’re getting established over 100/barrel here.
http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/
…in the U.S. Down to 18.5 million barrels per day.
WEEKLY PETROLEUM SUMMARY FOR WEEK ENDING DEC. 16 — EIA http://ir.eia.gov/wpsr/wpsrsummary.pdf
“Total products supplied over the last four-week period have averaged nearly 18.5 million barrels per day, down by 5.8 percent compared to the similar period last year. Over the last four weeks, motor gasoline product supplied has averaged 8.7 million barrels per day, down by 4.7 percent from the same period last year.”
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Chevron, Kazakhstan, Mark Ames, massacre, riot, strike
End of the road as carmaker Saab files for bankruptcy – Yahoo! News.
My dad used to own a bright green two-cylinder slug-shaped Saab. The company’s heritage as a manufacturer of jet fighters was not very evident in the design.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: Bakken, James Hamilton, keystone xl pipeline, oil sands, pipeline, shale gas
Econbrowser: Costs and benefits of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Through 2008…
FROM CITY OF PORTLAND, OREGON 2008 FATALITY SUMMARY
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2010, bicycle commuting, bicycling, Community Survey, mode share, Us census
From League of American Bicyclists.
Notice how the largest percent increases occurred in cities that were already big bike cities.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2010, Bicycle Retailer and Industry News, bike sales, market share
Excerpted from Bicycle Retailer and Industry News. Annual Stats Issue, 2011. (An overview of 2010 retail picture.)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Alberta, Canada, energy, Natural gas, pipeline, TransCanada
Fixed or increasing costs, declining revenue.
From the Toronto Star,
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Brazil, OECD, Petrobras, production, Roubini
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: desparados, end game, Federal Reserve, junk assets, mbs, wealth transfer
…from zerohedge
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Bakken, Bakken Shale, consumption, exports, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, imports, North Dakota, peak oil, production
Louise Basinese, Wall Street Daily. The confusion about refinery product exports is getting brutal.
http://www.wallstreetdaily.com/2011/12/16/peak-oil/
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Complete Streets, DOT, energy policy, Ray LaHood, stimulus, TIGER, transportation policy
The “TIGER” program has nothing for Colorado, and very little in general for western states.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/15/us/transportation-projects/index.html
From the pdf …
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Colorado, Colorado Oil and Gas Commission, frack, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, trade secrets
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Colorado-tightens-fracking-rules-2401144.php
That’s cool, it’s nice to know what goes in. More important — what comes out, and what do they do with it.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Barnett Shale, Chris Nelder, economics of shale gas, frac, fracking, proven reserves, recoverable reserves, SEC
“The Questionable Economics of Shale Gas,” by Chris Nelder, Dec. 14, 2011.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Colin McInnes, energy, Peak Demand, Peak Energy, peak oil, Richard Henberg, The End of Growth
Economic growth: it’s not dead yet | Colin McInnes | spiked.
In this bit McInnes argues that economic growth can continue after Peak Oil — citing as evidence all the wonderful engineering which occurred in the cheap oil era and which depended on cheap oil for its existence. I find his argument less persuasive and more simplistic than the ‘doomer’ arguments he is criticizing.
Industrialized Cyclist Notepad 
