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There is now potential for not just one crisis but three: ATMs freeze up, the planet warms up and the lights go outOne Sunday in October 2008, Alistair Darling flew back from Washington to find Britain on the brink of banking...

• Wind power capacity to slump from 1,368Mw to 90Mw in 2013• Ministers to announce overhaul of energy market this month Orders for offshore wind turbines in Britain will slump next year, threatening to halt the industry's...

This is a slide video of the presentation given by Gail Tverberg at the Oil Drum/ASPO Conference at Alcatraz, Italy in June 2009. Her talk is about Finite Resources: One Possible Explanation for the Energy Crisis ( Presentation...

British market could boom with introduction of guaranteed, above-market price for electricity fed into grid

Financial meltdown, climate change and dwindling energy supplies demand a newer world order

Collapse of Australian-based infrastructure giant Babcock & Brown means 77% share in the Aguçadoura wave plant is now up for sale

We are facing two global crises, one economic and one planetary. We cannot afford to choose to focus on one but not the other: we can act effectively and simultaneously on both fronts. Governments can commit over the next...