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Europe’s carbon price is down but not out

June 27, 2013March 18, 2018 By David Strahan Comment Closed

This article was first published in New Scientist, 27 June 2013. THE world's biggest carbon market, the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, is now widely regarded as a basket case. (more…)...

Inside the frack-heads’ not-so-secret agenda

December 14, 2012March 18, 2018 By David Strahan Comment Closed

This piece was first published in the ODAC Newsletter, 14 December 2012. The announcement on Thursday that the government is lifting its moratorium on fracking held all the surprise of turkey on the Christmas menu. (more…)...

What price Iraq?

October 16, 2012March 18, 2018 By David Strahan Comment Closed

This article was published in Middle East Oil & Gas Monitor, 16 October 2012. The fate of the world economy depends critically on Iraqi oil, according to a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) published last week. (more…)...

Liquid air: the birth of the nitrogen economy

October 1, 2012March 18, 2018 By David Strahan Comment Closed

This article was first published in gasworld in September 2012. Everybody’s heard of the hydrogen economy, with its promise of limitless low carbon energy. But after decades of R&D, the dream seems scarcely any closer. Apparently still confounded by major technical challenges, the hydrogen economy remains an elusive mirage – always ‘just 10 years away’. (more…)...

Peakonomics: Mitt Romney and $100 diet

September 6, 2012March 18, 2018 By David Strahan Comment Closed

This article was published in NorthAmOil, 6 September 2012. There seems to be a rule that every US presidential hopeful must promise energy independence but never deliver. (more…)...

Peakonomics: no country for old men

August 19, 2012March 19, 2018 By David Strahan Comment Closed

This article was first published in New Scientist, 16 August 2012. In 2007 James Schlesinger claimed the intellectual arguments around peak oil had all been won. With global oil production flat-lining and prices surging towards their all-time high of $147 per barrel, the former US Energy Secretary declared “we are all peakists now”. (more…)...

Monbiot peak oil u-turn based on duff maths

July 30, 2012March 19, 2018 By David Strahan Comment Closed

In his column of July 2nd George Monbiot recanted peak oil, claiming “the facts have changed, now we must change too”. Much of the article was spent regurgitating a recent report by Leonardo Maugeri, a former executive with the Italian oil company Eni, which Monbiot breathlessly reported “provides compelling evidence that a new oil boom has begun”. (more…)...