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Like may of you, I have regular automated Google searches for certain topics.  One of them has to do with clean energy.  I have had this search active for a while, so I only expect new stuff.  On Sunday, though, it turned up an interesting blog post by Brad Bradshaw on the subject of predicting peak oil from 2008.  Why would a 2008 post come up now?  As if that was not enough, Monday's WSJ had an article on a subject near to my thesis that I have posted on from time to time that global oil reserves are systematically overstated. ... More

I am no Peak Oil maven, but I read some commentary about it in the comments to one or another blog that I read regularly (perhaps Fred Wilson’s blog or Brad Feld’s or Don Dodge’s, I am not sure). Anyway it the issue was what the effect of peak oil would be on technology companies. Aside from placing a huge premium on all sorts of energy related technologies (that is why some massive percentage of investment is going into this space), I am not sure why technology should be affected differently from other industries. Anyway, it caused me to read... More