End Of Year Break - Best Of 2008
Posted by Big Gav on December 14, 2008 - 5:30am in The Oil Drum: Australia/New Zealand
Topic: Miscellaneous
Posts between now and the end of the year will be few and far between, as your editors here at TOD ANZ take their summer breaks.
Thanks for reading, and I'd like to wish you all a Happy Christmas / Holidays / Hanukkah / Summer or Winter Solstice or whatever it is you are celebrating.
For those who haven't managed to keep up with the flow of posts (or have just come across this blog at random), here are some of the key posts for the year:
Peak Oil And Fossil Fuels
* Peak Oil - Oil Reserves: Where Ghawar goes, the rest of OPEC follows
* Collapse - The Failure Of Networked Systems
* IEA WEO Report - The 2008 IEA WEO - Oil Reserves and Resources
* Australian Natural Gas - Australian Natural Gas - How Much Do We Have And How Long Will It Last ? (original)
* Coal Seam Gas - Coal Seam Gas Producers - The New Masters Of The Universe ? (original)
* Gas To Liquids In Australia - Gas To Liquids On The North West Shelf (original)
* The Varanus Island Explosion - A gas supply disruption case study - the Varanus Island explosion (original)
* Coal To Liquids In Australia - Coal To Liquids In Australia (original)
* Peak Oil and the Credit Crunch - Oil, House Prices, Credit? Three parts of the same story
* Enhanced Oil Recovery - How Technology Increases Oil Production
* Petrol Prices - Why is petrol only 95 cents a litre today?
* Air Travel - The Future of Air Travel
* Iraq and Oil - Iraq's Oil: The Greatest Prize Of All (original)
Clean Energy
* Solar Thermal Power - Concentrating on the important things: Solar Thermal Power (original)
* Thin Film Solar Power - Thin Film Solar Power - Cheaper than Coal ? (original)
* Alternative Wind Power experiments - SkySails And Airborne Wind Turbines (original)
* Floating Offshore Wind Power - Floating Offshore Wind Power (original)
* Geothermal Power - Geothermia (original)
* Low Temperature Geothermal Power - Low Temperature Geothermal Power (original)
* Ocean (tidal, wave, OTEC) Energy - Tapping The Source - The Power Of The Oceans (original)
* Biogas - Banana Methane Powered Cars, Pig Poo Power And Other Uses For Biogas (original)
* Biogas from the great lakes - Turning Danger Into Power (original)
* Cogeneration - Cogeneration At Home: Ceramic Fuel Cells (original)
* Bioplastic - Bioplastic - Better Living Through Green Chemistry ? (original)
* Electric Cars - Making Australia A Better Place (original)
* Energy Storage - Storing Energy Using Graphite (original)
* Energy Storage - We're Off To See The Wizard - Storing Energy Using Ammonia (original)
* Solar Powered Desalination - Solving Our Water Problems - Desalination Using Solar Thermal Power (original)
* Salt Water Power - The Power Of Osmosis (original)
* Hydrogen - The Hydrogen Economy And Peak Platinum (original)
* Expanded Electricity Grids - A National Electricity Grid For Australia
Miscellany
* Shared Transport - High-Tech Hitchhiking
* Spreading The Word - The Ups and Downs of Giving a Peak Oil Presentation
* The Limits To Growth - The Limits To Scenario Planning (original)
* Biochar - Terra Preta: Biochar And The MEGO Effect (original)
* Local Currencies - Locabucks: Are local currencies a way to escape the liquidity trap ? (original)
* Artificial Meat - A Post Peak Protein Possibility: The Meat Beast (original)
* Guerilla Gardening - Guerilla Gardening: Eating The Suburbs (original)
* M King Hubbert - Hubbert: King Of The Technocrats (original)




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