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Peak Oil=Peak Food=Peak People

Posted: 17 February, 2011 • Category: News • Tags: Energy, Food, Peak Oil • Comments(0)

It should be reasonable to most people to understand that energy is an analog for food. If you look at a chart of oil production and compare it to population, it seems obvious that food and fuel are the same thing under a different cloak. Energy is food is population. That creates a giant problem. Peak oil means peak food means peak population. The revolution in Tunisia first; now Egypt and soon in Serbia are not about religion or dictators or police states. ...

Renewable energy plan to replace all Australian coal power in ten years

Posted: 1 September, 2010 • Category: News • Tags: Climate Change, Energy, Governance, Pollution/Chemicals • Comments(0)

During July the University of Melbourne in partnership with the Energy Research Institute released the first national plan for providing base load power to Australia from clean renewable energy. The Beyond Zero Emissions plan proposes a ten year roadmap for Australia to reach a 100% renewable energy target making it the first zero carbon nation on the planet. It proposes that all base load energy can be supplied by renewable sources and is affordable to all Australians at $8 ...

Australia’s Eastern States – reduced greenhouse gas emission last summer

Posted: 1 September, 2010 • Category: News • Tags: Climate Change, Energy, Renewable Energy • Comments(0)

A press release by The Climate Group advises that Australia's 4 Eastern states reduced greenhouse gas emissions by just over 1.2 million tonnes emitted from energy compared to last summer. This is a significant reduction considering that it was one of the hottest summers on record with temperatures reaching 55 degrees. The fall in emissions was driven by a reduction in emissions from coal-fired electricity generation and a fall in emissions from the use of natural gas. the climate group story ...