Energy Outlook/Policy: Other Resources
You will find here a collection of miscellaneous interesting documents and links on
energy policy and the future, added as they have come to our attention.
- Oil as a Finite Resource, a report
dated March 1996 from the World Resources Institute, agrees with other recent information
suggesting that oil prices are likely to begin rising soon.
- World Resources 1996-97, a
report from the World Resources Institute, contains a well-documented section on future
energy projections and options.
- Summary of Shell Oil forecast of
future world energy supply (late 1995): "The Shell oil company has presented a
new scenario in which it appears that renewable or "alternative" sources such as
solar and wind energy, hydro power, and burning of biomass (wood and fibers) will be able
to play a significant role much sooner than has been accepted until now."
- Excellent article, Mideast Oil Forever?
by Joseph J. Romm and Charles B. Curtis from the April 1996 Atlantic Monthly on
prospects for future world oil supply shortages and the importance of maintaining a
renewable energy R&D program: "Research programs supported by the federal
government have made important breakthroughs in renewable-energy and environmental
technologies--technologies that could lessen our dependence on imported oil, reduce
pollution, and give America the lead in a vital new industrial sector. Congress is on the
verge of throwing all this away."
- The True Cost of
Renewables: An Analytic Response to the Coal Industry's Attack on Renewable Energy,
Swezey and Wan (Golden, Colorado: National Renewable Energy Technology Laboratory, 1995),
NREL/TP-462-20032. Critique of Resource Data International's Energy Choices in a
Competitive Era; The Role of Renewable and Traditional Energy Resources in America's
Electric Generation Mix (Alexandria, VA: Center for Energy and Economic Development,
1995). The NREL report is also available from the National Technical Information Service,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161, phone (703)
487-4650.
- Beyond the Limits and The Global Citizen,
two excellent resources on building a sustainable society and energy policy.
- Asia's Energy Temptation: Brief quotes from an article in The
Economist magazine, 7 October 1995, on why Asian countries should beware of nuclear
power.
- End of cheap oil?: "In 1974,
Dr. M. King Hubbert predicted that world petroleum output would peak around 1995. Based on
refinements in available data (oil resources in virtually the entire world have now been
charted), a recent study prepared by Dr. Colin J. Campbell on behalf of PetroConsultants
concluded that world petroleum output will peak around 1999, and will decline rapidly
thereafter. This graph, the well known 'Hubbert Curve,' as revised by Dr. Campbell,
depicts this inevitable peak and subsequent decline in reserves of cheap, pumpable oil in
the coming years. . . . " This site delves into the question of oil reserves in some
detail. Wind Energy Weekly article, 12
February 1996, with more information on this topic.
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