Paul Mobbs Mobbs' Environmental Investigations What I do I began working as an independent environmental consultant, specialising in the needs of community campaigns, in early 1992. From 1992 to 2001, I continued this service, working all over the UK on a wide range of community issues. In 2001, I began to develop a new set of services, relating to assisting groups in the use and development of computer systems in order to improve their networking with other people who share similar problems. This arose as part of my use of computers in support of my work as a consultant. Today, the work I do is diverse, mixing information and communications technology and environmental consultancy. For the last two years most of my work has shifted towards energy futures, in particular finding a common ground between current concerns about the coming energy crisis following Peak Oil and sustainable development. This research has now been put together as a book (to be published sometime in May/June 2005) called Energy Beyond Oil. The purpose of these pages is to make freely available the body of work I have produced over past decade, and some of the more recent articles and papers. Please feel free to extract and use as you will. However, if you have a particular environmental problem, I recommend that you find an appropriate expert as much of the older information is now very out of date. My recent papers and publications are listed below. For an archive of my work before 2003 see my Work Archive. If you would like to know more about my work please contact: Paul Mobbs, Mobbs' Environmental Investigations, 3 Grosvenor Road, Banbury OX16 5HN. or email meir@fraw.org.uk Recent papers and publications Uranium Supply and the Nuclear Option, March 2005 (18 kilobytes) Published (without references) in the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies Energy Forum journal in May 2005, this article examines whether there is sufficient uranium to allow governments to go for the "nuclear option". The conclusion is that uranium will have equally problematic supply problems if states significantly expand their use of nuclear energy over the next one or two decades. Also available as a PDF file (67 kilobytes). Energy Beyond Oil, December 2004 (12 kilobytes) Published (in an edited form, under the title A World Turned Upside Down) by the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) in the December 2004 (vol.60 no.12) edition of their journal, The World Today, this article provides an overview of our energy future... i.e., problematic. It looks at what various sources might realistically contribute, and concludes that the global energy economy must contract, turning the certainties of globalisation "upside down" (local instead of global, etc.) Also available as a PDF file (38 kilobytes).