Hydrogen & fuel cells

Evolution demands short-term thinking focused on individual survival. Most attempts to overcome our evolutionarily hardwired absorption with self are selected against. The Overman is dead, killed by a high-fat diet and unwillingness to exercise. Reflexively, we follow him into the grave.

This week saw further oil discoveries in the Santos Basin and off the coast of Ghana, extending a run of sizeable finds in recent weeks. Following much breathless reporting of such discoveries, it was good to them put into context by solid analysis from Morgan Stanley and Bank Macquarie...

Recently a friend gave me a copy of a January 22, 1973 issue of Newsweek. The cover title was “The Energy Crisis”. It’s interesting to look back and see how things have changed; or, to be more accurate, not changed.

Bioelectricity better than biofuels for transport
U.S. Drops Research Into Fuel Cells for Cars
Flush with Camaro orders, GM workers on OT

This content is no longer available. It was a pre-publication draft of a section of "Energy Limits to Growth," a report that will be published in expanded form by Post Carbon Institute and International Forum on globalization in May.

NYT: A world of a different color (horsepower)
Headlights burn more fuel?
The end of the road for hydrogen?

Mad cows (and livid lambs)
China and India: heartlands of global protest
Outside U.S., credit cards tighten grip
Local scientist splits water, saves world, gets on TV

The problem with walk score, the possibilities of carbon goggles
Automakers race time as their cash runs low
Addiction: A million little miles per gallon
Consumer auto expert Reed: ‘panic in boardrooms’ of GM, Ford as it becomes clear electric cars ‘really coming’

Peak oil: petrol to reach $8 a litre
Fuel for thought - CSIRO's report on the future of transport fuels
ASPO-Australia's response to CSIRO report
Petrol report a wake-up call: environmentalists

Strahan: How do you solve a problem like jet fuel?
Monbiot: Consider the airship

Homer-Dixon: future of travel and conferences
Oil, environment, lifestyle fuel Asia's two-wheeler boom

Kunstler on Flagstaff and hydrogen cars

Americans drove less in 2007 for first time
Slow down a little, save a lot of gas
Kunstler on the fate of Flagstaff & hydrogen cars

Bush: America must 'get off oil'
Bartlett pounces on hydrogen claims
William F. Buckley on $100 oil

Rep. Bartlett delivers his 38th special order speech on peak oil (video)
Bartlett: Declining oil supply means war is ‘fairly probable'
BMW: peak oil in 2025, solution = hydrogen

In its day, the internal combustion engine was a wonderful device that served us well for over a century. That day, however, will soon be over. It is time to start thinking about and planning for alternatives.