by Graham Palmer | Feb 16, 2020 | Electricity, Energy, EROI, Hydrogen, Oil, Pumped hydro storage, Storage
This is my first post for over a year, and I’m planning on following up with several more posts in the near future. I’ve been working on several projects, including my project engineering role in manufacturing, research projects on hydrogen and a book on...
by Graham Palmer | May 7, 2018 | Energy, energy security, Oil, oil security
Australia’s strategic oil reserve [UPDATE 7 May 2018. I originally posted this in July 2017, but since the Australian Federal Government announced a review, I thought I would repost this.] With the current political debates in Australia around energy and climate...
by Graham Palmer | Jun 30, 2017 | Oil
A model for exploring oil boom & bust cycles Economics 101 starts with a stylised depiction of a supply and demand curve. The price is determined by the intersection of the curves. This implies that there is no such thing as an ‘oil supply gap’ since a shift of...
by Graham Palmer | Jun 5, 2017 | Oil
Australia’s strategic oil reserve With the current political debates in Australia around energy and climate policy, it’s easy to neglect the sleeper of Australia’s energy policy – the lack of an oil strategic reserve. The IEA was established in November...
by Graham Palmer | Apr 21, 2017 | Oil
Leif Wenar- Blood Oil From 1807, Britain tried to suppress the Atlantic slave trade until eventual success its 1867. In the late eighteenth century nearly everyone of influence or power in Britain had a direct or indirect interest in the slave trade. In 1805–1806 the...
by Graham Palmer | Dec 29, 2016 | Oil
The oil-gold nexus Crude oil has a unique status in global energy markets and underpins global economic activity. Since the 1970s, it has taken on a role as a quasi-monetary commodity. By the end of World War II, the US held around 70 percent of global gold reserves....
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