SOLUTIONS

Over the coming months, ODAC will be developing its Solutions page. This will take the form of a brief introduction to each topic, and a list of links for further information.

The Depletion Protocol

The Depletion protocol has been developed by Colin Campbell of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO), and ODAC Board trustee. In Colin’s own words.

Further information:

How to Avoid Oil Wars, Terrorism, and Economic Collapse  Richard Heinberg discusses the protocol

The Depletion Protocol website

Articles

How to Wean a Town Off Fossil Fuels

Hana Loftus, World Changing, 24 Oct 2006

The story of the Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan is an extraordinary one. A mid-thirties Englishman with a penchant for permaculture and an interest in peak oil moves to rural Ireland, starts teaching at the local further education college, and ends up writing, with his students, a ground-breaking document: the first timetabled strategy for weaning a town off fossil fuels. And what is more, that small Irish town actually adopts the action plan and starts to implement it.

Ethanol from Brazil and the USA

Milton Maciel, Energy Bulletin [Peak Oil Review, ASPO-USA], 02 Oct 2006

Since the beginning of the present boom of corn ethanol production in the United States, Brazilian success with its ethanol from sugar cane has been cited as an example of how the USA could get free from its oil imports (mainly from Middle East) by substituting ethanol for gasoline. This would be corn ethanol. Well, I’m an organic sugar cane farmer and ethanol expert in Brazil. And I think it is my duty to tell my American readers and friends that this comparison is not so simple or straightforward. This would be, indeed, comparing mangoes and apples. There are two points to consider: First, the immense difference between the two economies and their respective rates of consumption. And, second, the yield and ERoEI differences (net energy, or Energy Returned on Energy Invested) between tropical sugar cane and temperate corn.

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