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Why The Coming Oil Crunch Will Shock The World
Anton Balazh/Shutterstock Why The Coming Oil Crunch Will Shock The World And why we need a new energy strategy — fast. My years working in corporate strategy taught me that every strategic framework, no matter how complex (some I worked on were hundreds of pages long), boils down to just two things: Where do you […]
Book Review: Energy Return on Investment by Charles A. S. Hall
Book Review: Energy Return on Investment by Charles A. S. Hall ENERGY RETURN ON INVESTMENT: A Unifying Principle for Biology, Economics, and Sustainability In Energy Return on Investment, systems ecologist Charles A. S. Hall argues that to truly understand most investments, one must view them in terms of energy. This is perhaps most obvious when considering […]
Dr. Charles Hall: The Laws Of Nature Trump Economics
Dr. Charles Hall: The Laws Of Nature Trump Economics It’s all about Energy Retun On Energy Invested (EROEI) Dr. Charles Hall may not be a name you instantly recognize, but it should be. Now a Professor Emeritus of the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Dr. Hall is a rigorous researcher of energy, oil, biophysical […]
THE U.S. SHALE OIL INDUSTRY: Swindling & Stealing Energy To Stay Alive
THE U.S. SHALE OIL INDUSTRY: Swindling & Stealing Energy To Stay Alive While the U.S. Shale Energy Industry continues to borrow money to produce uneconomical oil and gas, there is another important phenomenon that is not understood by the analyst community. The critical factor overlooked by the media is the fact that the U.S. shale […]
U.S. ECONOMIC CRISIS AHEAD: Major Failure Of Analysts To Spot Danger
U.S. ECONOMIC CRISIS AHEAD: Major Failure Of Analysts To Spot Danger The U.S. economy continues towards an epic crisis while the overwhelming majority of analysts are completely in the dark. Even though some alternative media analysts understand that our highly leveraged fiat monetary system and markets will crash, they fail to understand the underlying reasons. […]
U.S. Deepwater Offshore Oil Industry Trainwreck Approaching
U.S. Deepwater Offshore Oil Industry Trainwreck Approaching The U.S. Deepwater Offshore Oil Industry is a trainwreck in the making. The low oil price continues to sack an industry which was booming just a few short years ago. The days of spending billions of dollars to find and produce some of the most technically challenging deep-water […]
WORLD’S LARGEST OIL COMPANIES: Deep Trouble As Profits Vaporize While Debts Skyrocket
WORLD’S LARGEST OIL COMPANIES: Deep Trouble As Profits Vaporize While Debts Skyrocket The world’s largest oil companies are in serious trouble as their balance sheets deteriorate from higher costs, falling profits and skyrocketing debt. The glory days of the highly profitable global oil companies have come to an end. All that remains now is a […]
Inside the new economic science of capitalism’s slow-burn energy collapse
Inside the new economic science of capitalism’s slow-burn energy collapse And why the struggle for a new economic paradigm is about to get real Source: art by Isaac Cordal New scientific research is quietly rewriting the fundamentals of economics. The new economic science shows decisively that the age of endlessly growing industrial capitalism, premised on abundant fossil fuel […]
Charlie Hall speaks about EROI (and many other things)
Charlie Hall speaks about EROI (and many other things) A talk given by professor Charlie Hall in Princeton, last year. More than one hour of presentation to show how rich and interesting is the field of biophysical economics. And here is a comment submitted by Bepi Cima Waiting for a more affordable digital version of Charles […]
Go Long Chain Makers
Go Long Chain Makers Leonardo da Vinci Head of a Woman 1470s This is turning into a very rewarding series, it opens up vistas I could never have dreamed of. First, in “Not Nearly Enough Growth To Keep Growing”, I posited that peak wealth for the west, and America in particular, was sometime in the early ’70s or […]
Bankrupting OPEC… One Million Barrels Of Oil At A Time
Bankrupting OPEC… One Million Barrels Of Oil At A Time The world hasn’t really caught on yet, but OPEC is in serious trouble. Last year, OPEC’s net oil export revenues collapsed. How bad? Well, how about 65% since the oil price peaked in 2012. To offset falling oil prices and revenues, OPEC nations have resorted […]
Thermodynamic Oil Collapse Interview: Why The Global Economy Will Disintegrate Rapidly
Thermodynamic Oil Collapse Interview: Why The Global Economy Will Disintegrate Rapidly The world is heading towards a rapid disintegration of its economic and financial system due to a “Thermodynamic oil collapse.” I spoke with Dr. Louis Arnoux of nGeni, about the details of the thermodynamics of oil depletion and its impact on the global economy. Unfortunately, […]
