Solar Power 2006

The videos from this conference have been placed online:

http://www.tvworldwide.com/events/eqtv/061016/

The energy speech Bush should have given

Well written summary of previous assertions and the current situation for America's energy supply and demand.

http://pipeline.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/the-state-of-our-energy-policy/

False Signals of Declining Scarcity

This article

http://www.hubbertpeak.com/reynolds/MineralEconomy.htm (digg)
says that for certain types of finite resources (where there is uncertainty in the remaining amount), the market can result in a low price for the resource until at some point, there is a correction leading to a price spike. Is this the case for oil today? Is this theory accepted in academic economics?

Here is a related post:

http://thenewbusinessworld.blogspot.com/2007/01/low-oil-price-rising-concern-of-oil.html
But it seems to say that the decrease is due to cyclical factors (high price => more wells => high supply => low price => ... ), which is different than the above article.

Clean Tech Investor Summit

Here are some CNET articles related to the Clean Tech conference.

http://news.com.com/The+long%2C+winding+road+to+renewable+energy/2009-11395_3-6152915.html

http://news.com.com/Green+tech+powers+forward/2009-1008_3-6106533.html

videos on oil

Here are some videos:

Robert Newman - History of Oil
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7374585792978336967
A humorous but also deadly serious monologue on the history of oil. Explains the petrodollar using an anecdote of Salvador Dali's sketches on the back of his checks (guaranteeing that they would not be cashed).

THE END OF SUBURBIA: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream
http://www.endofsuburbia.com/
An indictment of suburbia, an arrangement predicated on cheap oil and one that now traps us into an unsustainable transportation situation.