Japan's Electric Bottleneck

SUBHEAD: Brownouts will continue. It is unlikely TEPCO can meet the power demand for Tokyo for several years.By John Ydstie on 24 March 2011 for National Public Radio - (http://www.npr.org/2011/03/24/134828205/a-country-divided-japans-electric-bottleneck)Image above: Buildings are seen without illumination in Tokyo's Shibuya district. Rolling blackouts are crippling the town. From original

The happiest guy in America

SUBHEAD: Meet Alvin Wong, a oriental, senior, self-employed, jewish, Hawaiian.By Kim Corollo on 8 March 2011 for ABC News - (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/happiest-person-america-hawaiian-alvin-wong-fits-gallup/story?id=13087258)Image above: Alvin Wong and his wife Trudy Schandler-Wong at East-West Center in Honolulu. From (http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/03/06/HAPPY.html). Alvin Wong

Non-Peaking Energy Demand

SUBHEAD: The non-peaking of energy demand is part of our energy ponzi scheme.By Steve Ludlum on 27 January 2011 in Economic Undertow - (http://economic-undertow.blogspot.com/2011/01/looking-at-non-peaking-of-demand.html)Image above: "Modernity is stoking a hot furnace stranded on an ice flow." Mashup by Juan Wilson.Here are some 'first principles' of Economic Undertow:The 'First Law' of

Why There Will Be No Recovery

SOURCE: Bratticus (Blogspot commenter)SUBHEAD: The peak demand argument is a good one–but not for the nice reasons.By Chris Nelder on 5 March 2010 for Get Real List -(http://www.getreallist.com/peak-demand-yes-but-not-the-nice-kind.html)Image above: Old time craft work in Appalachia. From (http://www.berea.edu/bereadigital/gstr210/appalachiaessay.asp).When oil crossed $120 a barrel for the first

The End of The End

SUBHEAD: How did Yergin and CERA, Exxon Mobil, and "Government and industry officials" so completely outmaneuver the peak oil prophets of doom? By Mike Bendzela on 2 January 2011 in OpEd News - (http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-End-of-The-End--How-t-by-Mike-Bendzela-110102-802.html)Image above: Poster for "OilPeakapocalypse Now". From (http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news499.htm)."Demand