Beyond Economics

Gasoline Price History 1979-Present (Nominal & Real)
1929-Present

Clean Energy Jobs by State (EDF)

Elon Musk: Powerwall 2 and Solar Roof Reveal (19/2016)

100% Renewable Sources by 2050 by Country

Bloomberg: Renewables beating fossil fuels (4/2016)

The Wining of the Carbon War (pdf,12/2015)
Jeremy Leggett Blog

The Geopolitics of Energy Project (pdf, 6/2012)

Interview with Bill Gates in The Atlantic (11/15)

Interview with Jeremy Grantham in The Guardian (4/2013) / On Charlie Rose (Video)

Rocky Mountain Institute: Oil Price Dynamics (6/15)

Oil Price Scenarios for 2015 & 2016

CME WTI Oil Price Futures

Introductory Videos & Sites

• PBS New Hour: Divest/Invest Movement (5:47 min, 9/14)
• Brief History of the Fossil Fuel Age
• NOVA: Power Surge (with intro by Richard Branson, 2011)
• NOVA: The Big Energy Gamble (California)
• Fuel (trailer) / Fuel (2 hour)
• Peak Oil (Journeyman.tv) [10 min]
• DISCOVERY: Addicted to Oil – Part 1 of 5 – Introduction
  Part 2 of 5 – Climate Change, Ethonol, Plug-in Hybirds
  Part 3 of 5 – More on plug-ins, hydrogen fuel cells (+/-), alternative energy
  Part 4 of 5 – More on alternatives, energy efficiency, green China
  Part 5 of 5 – More on green China
• TED: Bill Gates – Energy Innovation / Talk at MIT [2010, 8 min.]
  Bill Gates on Phase 4 Nuclear Power Technology [3/2012, 7 min.]
• PBS: Planet Forward
• Green Explored by Lindsay Laveen (somewhat contrarian)
• Todd Woody – Green Wombat Blog (Forbes)
• Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (2008) [online book]

Charts, Data, and Analysis

• 2018 EIA Report on LACE-LOCE (Explained)
• Lazard’s LOCE Analysis 2009-2017
• Lazard’s LCOE 11.0 (11/2017)
• EIA: Electricity Monthly
• The Geopolitics of Energy Project (Harvard, 2012)
• Energy 101 Calculators (interactive)
• IEA: Energy Flows – Interactive Diagram
• 8 Reasons for Our Oil Price Predicament
• Analysis of Oil Reserve Predictions (Environmental History)
• Analysis of Oil Depletion by Type
• BP Annual Energy Review 2013
• Bloomberg: U.S. Sustainable Energy Factbook 2014
• EcoWatch: U.S. Electricity Production by Source (2012, 2013)
• Financial Risk to Fossil Fuel Industry of Low-Carbon Future / HSBC Report (2013)
• Oil Prices and Economic Growth (Roger Pielke)
• Oil Price History (1869-2011)
• The Big Deal About U.S. Energy Independence (Arthur Berman)
• The Oil Drum – Discussions About Energy and Our Future
  Archives 2005-2010
• World Oil Supply Analysis with Charts
• Big Oil and Big Coal Lobbying
• IEA Oil Market Report
• Energy Information Administration – Official U.S. Government Statistics (Sources & Uses)
• Oil Reserves and Extraction Costs / Oil Reserves (Proven vs. Unconventional – graphs by region)
• Unconventional Oil Reserves
  (Total Existing vs. Technologically Possible vs. Economically Practical
• Energy Export Databrowser
• Interview: Amory Lovins on Charlie Rose (7/2008)
• Oil: Efficiency, Prices, and Marginal Cost of Production (TOD)
• Video: Peak Oil (9 minutes)
• Debunking Oil Industry Myths and Deception (Consumer Reports, 2006)

Electricity, Grid, & Storage

• Dispelling the nuclear baseload myth
• Tesla Energy Vision (TDC) [4 min]
• 2015 Electricity Capacity – New & Existing
• Power Generation Loads (Introductory)
• U.S. Production and Consumption of Electricity by Source (EIA, 1/2013)
• Costs of Electricity Production by Source (EIA, 8/2012)
• Solar Energy Costs in MA
• Limitations of Energy Storage for Renewables

Oil and Coal

• EIA: Oil Consumption by Region (1980-2012)
• EIA: Oil Production by Region (1980-2012)
• Unconventional Oil Reserves
• The World’s Biggest  (Proven) Oil Reserves (Slide 1)
• World’s 25 Largest Oil Producers
• OPEC by Country (WSJ)
• Oil in the ground to gas in the tank [6 min]
• COAL: The Last Mountain (Trailer) / The Battle for Blair Mountian (Trailer) / Clean Coal Ad
  Beyond Coal Campaign / Momenta Trailer (coal exports)
• TAR SANDS: ExxonMobil Commercial / Tar Sands Extraction (11:39 min) / H2Oil Trailer (3:15 min) / Tar Sands Extraction (3 min)
  Tar Sands Overview
• Megastructures: Oil Sands Mine (48 min)
• Irrelevance of Keystone? (Robert Rapier, 7/13)
• The Crude Gamble of Oil by Rail (Vice News video)
• How Long Can the Shale Revolution Last? (OilPrice.com)

Natural Gas

• National Geographic: Methane Emissions
• Art Berman on economics of shale (3/2017)
• VOX: How Fracking Works
• Diane Rehm Show on America’s Energy Future (my call at the end)
• ExxonMobil Commercial / Industry Rebuttal to Gasland
• Gasland – Trailer /
• Technical overview of fracking by industry insider Anthony Ingraffea
• More technical discussion of the greenhouse gas impact of shale gas fracking (Ingraffea)
• NYT: Drilling Down Series
• Don’t Fall for the Shale Boom Hype (interview with Chris Matenson on OilPrice.com)
• Shale Gas Will be the Next Bubble to Pop (interview with Arthur Berman on OilPrice.com)
• Video Tour of Drilling Process
• Unearthed: The Fracking Facade (24 min)
• Fault Lines – Fracking in America (23 min)
• Natural Gas Industry Overview

Nuclear and Alternatives

• Bloomberg Businessweek: Why Cheap Oil Can’t Stop Renewables
• Does Moore’s Law Apply to Solar (Scientific American, 2011)
• Pandora’s Promise (rethinking nuclear power)
• Home Geothermal
• TED: Steven Crowley: Fusion is Energy’s Future (2009, 10 min)
• TED: The Future of Nuclear Power (11/1/11)
• TED: Edward Burtynsky – Oil

Energy Policy

• Northeast RGGI Carbon Cap & Trade Report
• Bloomberg LP Launches First Tool That Measures Risk of ‘Unburnable Carbon’ Assets
• Carbon bubble will plunge the world into another financial crisis (The Guardian, 4/18/2013)
• War Over Solar Power Within GOP (New Republic, 11/13)
• Post-Partisan Power (AEI, Brookings, Breathrough)
• Lisa Margonelli at TED: The Political Chemistry of Oil
• Jimmy Carter’s Malaise Speech
• Dirty Energy Money / ExxonSecrets.org