Kurt Cobb is a freelance writer and communications consultant who writes frequently about energy and environment. His work has also appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Resilience, Le Monde Diplomatique, TalkMarkets, Investing.com, Business Insider and many other places. He is the author of an oil-themed novel entitled Prelude and has a widely followed blog called Resource Insights. He is currently a fellow of the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions.
Protestations in the mainstream media that we need not worry about a peak in the rate of world oil production anytime soon are suddenly coming…
Estimates for recoverable shale gas just keep falling. Last year, the Potential Gas Committee, an industry consortium that focuses on long-term projections, estimated that recoverable…
So much of the discussion surrounding an extension of the existing Keystone oil pipeline system which spans Canada and the United States assumes that the…
As oil prices rose ever higher in the last decade, the optimists kept predicting rising production capacity and plummeting prices. Looks like they got it…
It is with some trepidation that I prepare for a trip that includes an appearance before college students who generally find the idea of peak…
In the minds of many of those concerned about an imminent rendezvous with peak oil, the day the world slides past the all-time peak in…
Last week authorities apprehended a trader for UBS, the huge, international Swiss bank, on suspicion that he lost $2 billion of the bank's money in…
The following is an attempt to weave together many strands of thought from my writings on energy into a compact briefing for energy policymakers. If…
In the 6th century B.C. Athenians gave extraordinary powers to one man to make needed reforms that would deliver Athens from economic stagnation and the…
Some time ago an economist with whom I had an extensive exchange suggested that the best way to incentivize an energy transition would be to…
Several years ago a young boy asked me during a presentation if we might be able to pipe in oil and natural gas from the…
I now make it a staple of my public talks on energy to ask who in the audience has been to Europe. Usually many hands…
In late August 1859 the most severe solar storm ever witnessed began and lasted through the first few days of September. It produced vivid auroras…
World governments have collectively poured trillions of dollars of stimulative spending into the world economy since the crash of 2008. And, they've shoveled trillions more…
Newly accessible natural gas from deep shale deposits around the world has been touted as a solution to everything from oil dependence to climate change.…
Nuclear researchers knew long ago that reactor designs now in wide use had already been bested in safety by another design. Why did the industry…
Famed student of risk and probability and author of The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb tells us that in 2003 Japan's nuclear safety agency set…
As the European Central Bank (ECB) prepares to raise interest rates to prevent inflation, the bank cites rising commodity prices, particularly oil prices, as a…
Most people imagine the future to be a place of plenty where energy is abundant and cheap, where every door is an automatic door and,…
Only two years ago Chesapeake Energy Corp. president Aubrey McClendon was telling us about the limitless future of natural gas in North America. It was…