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Peak oil, ten or so years on
Peak oil, ten or so years on This blog began seven years and almost a thousand posts ago, and I thought it a good time to take stock. Since the blog itself was inspired by the “peak oil” movement, and since it’s been ten years, by some measures, since the peak, I wanted to assess […]
Putting the Real Story of Energy and the Economy Together
Putting the Real Story of Energy and the Economy Together What is the real story of energy and the economy? We hear two predominant energy stories. One is the story economists tell: The economy can grow forever; energy shortages will have no impact on the economy. We can simply substitute other forms of energy, or do […]
COLLAPSE PHENOMENON: Michael Ruppert’s Last Book, First Starring Film Role, and Ascendancy to the National Stage in 2009
COLLAPSE PHENOMENON: Michael Ruppert’s Last Book, First Starring Film Role, and Ascendancy to the National Stage in 2009 Michael C. Ruppert, who died one year ago this week, was an icon of the peak oil and sustainability movements. A narcotics cop turned independent journalist, he distinguished himself as a determined and intrepid follower of the truth, […]
The Science of Peak Oil
The Science of Peak Oil One of the many barbs often pointed at peak oil proponents is that they are constantly shifting the goal posts. Peak oilers are accused of changing the definition of what peak oil actually means, therefore the entire concept of oil production peaking is rubbish. Far from a valid criticism however, this […]
Energy market madness is the death spasm of the oil age – renewables now!
Energy market madness is the death spasm of the oil age – renewables now! Current oil price volatility is a symptom of the end of cheap oil, writes Nafeez Ahmed, and it’s destablising the entire global economy. The answer is a major shift to renewables – but the the International Energy Agency, which should be […]
Arthur Berman: Why Today’s Shale Era Is The Retirement Party For Oil Production
Arthur Berman: Why Today’s Shale Era Is The Retirement Party For Oil Production A leading geologist delivers the hard facts As we’ve written about often here at PeakProsperity.com, much of what’s been ‘sold’ to us about the US shale oil revolution is massively over-hyped. The amount of commercially-recoverable shale oil is much less than touted, […]
Why we are at Peak Oil Right Now
Why we are at Peak Oil Right Now In this life nothing is certain. Therefore I am not declaring, absolutely, that we are at peak oil, only that it is a near certainty. But I am putting my reputation on the line in making the claim that the period, September 2014 through August 2015 will be the […]
Peak Affordable Oil
…click on the above link to read the rest of the article… It is quite obvious that high oil prices in the last 3-4 years Fig 1: WTI spot prices to 23/1/2015 http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=rwtc&f=w have reduced demand for oil, as shown in this IEA graph for OECD countries: Fig 2: Oil demand in OECD countries Oct […]
The Age Of Cheap Oil Is Over
The Age Of Cheap Oil Is Over The longer I look at what is going on today with oil prices the less it makes sense to me. I know there are a lot of experts who blame this all on the “glut” of oil created by overly aggressive U.S. upstream companies that took all the […]
The Center’s Got To Give
The Center’s Got To Give I was thinking about something along the lines of The Center Cannot Hold and Something’s Got To Give earlier, but then I thought there’s no way I haven’t used those titles before. And then it occurred to me that The Automatic Earth started 7 years ago this month. Just looked […]
An Endless Sea of Energy
An Endless Sea of Energy With crude oil prices in a strong corrective mode, energy depletion is understandably not on people’s minds these days. However, this is a scenario that many of us might have to deal with at some point in our lifetimes. Yes, the world currently has more than abundant supplies of crude […]
What Will 2015 do for Peak Oil?
What Will 2015 do for Peak Oil? The Cornucopians are exuberant, they believe that collapsing of oil prices dealt the death knell for peak oil. An oil glut, they say, is what we have, not peak oil. But an oil glut is exactly what we would expect at the very peak. After all, that is […]
The Next Decade Will Decide Peak Oil Outcome
The Next Decade Will Decide Peak Oil Outcome The most attention-grabbing attempts to predict oil futures have come from geologists and environmental activists, who tend to look solely at production. An overlooked doctoral thesis by Christophe McGlade,Uncertainties in the outlook for oil and gas, in contrast, focuses on how both supply and demand might be […]
Sydney plans to dismantle rail infrastructure built just 6 years ago (part 1)
Sydney plans to dismantle rail infrastructure built just 6 years ago (part 1). Contents: (1) Epping – Chatswood tunnel conversion works proposed (2) Removal of tracks at Epping and Chatswood (3) Operational flexibility reduced (4) Removal of signalling What can the world learn from Sydney’s future “Infrastructure Hub” established by G20 leaders in Brisbane in November […]
