On March 29, 1819, Petroleum entrepreneur Edwin Laurentine Drake, also known as Colonel Drake, was born. He is popularly credited with being the first to drill for oil in the United States. His success launched an Oil Rush and brought the world a new energy source. · http://yovisto.blogspot.de/2013/03/colonel-drake-and-petroleum.html

If the optimists are wrong, however, prepare for a shock. In a 2009 paper [PDF], Hall and his colleagues estimated that energy supplies with an EROI of at least 12 to 13 were required to support the trappings of modern developed nations, such as higher education, technological progress, and high art. Oil and gas production in the United States may have already fallen below that threshold, the paper says, and global production appears to be following fast. 
 The implications, according to Prieto and Hall, are sobering. In fact, Prieto believes he is already witnessing economic decline caused, in part, by petroleum's dwindling EROI. He sees it manifested in Spain's debt crisis. "Energy is the ability to do work. If we do not have more energy one year than the preceding year, we will hardly be able to grow," he says. "And, if there is no growth, the financial system collapses." · http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/solar/argument-over-the-value-of-solar-focuses-on-spain/?utm_source=techalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=090612

Große Teile der Weltbevölkerung seien im alltäglichen Leben den Kraftstoffemissionen ausgesetzt, so Christopher Portier von der IARC. Für Minenarbeiter oder Lastwagenfahrer seien die Abgase dabei in etwa so gefährlich wie das Passivrauchen. Der Kontakt mit der Mixtur aus Chemikalien müsse daher noch mehr reduziert werden. Zugleich empfehlen die Forscher weitergehende und genauere Studien. · http://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/studie-wissenschaftler-diesel-eindeutig-krebserregend-11785643.html

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