Richard Heinberg 
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Richard Heinberg is senior fellow with Post Carbon Institute and author of several books on resource depletion, including The Oil Depletion Protocol and Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis.
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Is the global oil tank half-full, is it half-empty … or are we running on fumes? 1
Posted 2 months agoIn his article in the New York Times Sept. 24, “Oil Industry Sets a Brisk Pace of New Discoveries,” staff reporter Jad Mouawad cites oil discoveries totaling 10 billion barrels for the first half of 2009.
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As discussed in my new book BLACKOUT: COAL, CLIMATE AND THE LAST ENERGY CRISIS, global and U.S. coal supplies are greatly over-estimated and coal will become more expensive and scarce during the next two decades--the timeframe for the development of carbon capture technology. "Clean coal" only makes economic sense if coal continues to be cheap and abundant (whether it makes engineering sense is another question). The coal industry wants to keep us hooked on their product, but we may in fact have a relatively short time in which to develop renewables and radical energy conservation before the lights start to go out--as is already happening in dozens of countries around the world, in some cases (India, Pakistan) because of coal shortages.
Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute (www.postcarbon.org)
On Coal industry downplays prospects for CCS as it seeks more handouts in Senate climate bill posted 4 months, 1 week ago 5 Responses