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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 […]
Peak Oil from the Demand Side: A Prophetic New Model – Peak Oil BarrelPeak Oil Barrel
Peak Oil from the Demand Side: A Prophetic New Model – Peak Oil BarrelPeak Oil Barrel. 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 […]
Keep Your Eyes On The Prize: Chris Martenson | Peak Prosperity
Keep Your Eyes On The Prize: Chris Martenson | Peak Prosperity. At the essential center of the framework of the Crash Course is the almost insultingly simple idea that endless growth on a finite planet is an impossibility. It is so simple it could be worked out by a clever 4 year-old. And yet it […]
RESOURCE CRISIS: Peak Oil: the elephant in the room
RESOURCE CRISIS: Peak Oil: the elephant in the room. In 2003, I invited Colin Campbell, the founder of the association for the study of peak oil (ASPO), to give a talk in Florence. After the talk, a small group of conspirators (1) collected in my office. We drank together something curiously looking like petroleum in […]
Broken Energy Markets and the Downside of Hubbert’s Peak – The Automatic Earth
Broken Energy Markets and the Downside of Hubbert’s Peak – The Automatic Earth. Euan: A few commenters have mentioned peak oil recently. I am cautious about making forecasts and predictions and prefer instead to observe and document the data as the peak oil story unfolds. I have in fact published a couple of charts recently illustrating […]
Peak Oil Review – Dec 22
Peak Oil Review – Dec 22. 1. Oil and the Global Economy Oil prices were volatile last week with New York futures trading around $55 a barrel and around $60 in London with little change at week’s end. In the absence of any solid news on supply or demand, traders jumped in and out of […]
The Archdruid Report: Déjà Vu All Over Again
The Archdruid Report: Déjà Vu All Over Again. Over the last few weeks, a number of regular readers of The Archdruid Report have asked me what I think about the recent plunge in the price of oil and the apparent end of the fracking bubble. That interest seems to be fairly widespread, and has attracted many of […]
Peak Oil: Statements Aren’t Always Conclusive – Peak Oil Matters
Peak Oil: Statements Aren’t Always Conclusive – Peak Oil Matters. Michael Lynch offered that comment early in a not surprisingly vague article arguing peak oil this past summer. [Not that vague is a new tactic for him. Five years ago, Chris Nelder offered a concise analysis of Lynch’s work, and not much appears to have changed]: With a background in political […]
RESOURCE CRISIS: Fossil fuels: are we on the edge of the Seneca cliff?
RESOURCE CRISIS: Fossil fuels: are we on the edge of the Seneca cliff?. “It would be some consolation for the feebleness of our selves and our works if all things should perish as slowly as they come into being; but as it is, increases are of sluggish growth, but the way to ruin is rapid.” Lucius Anneaus Seneca, Letters […]
Peak Oil: So How Do We Prepare? – Peak Oil Matters
Peak Oil: So How Do We Prepare? – Peak Oil Matters. The economic effects of peak oil are as obvious as they are frightening. The most immediate effect is to increase oil prices, and this has its own effect of slowing the economy down. There was a period in which Saudi Arabia could modulate the […]
Shale Oil – Crash Course Chapter 21 | Peak Prosperity
Shale Oil – Crash Course Chapter 21 | Peak Prosperity. If you’ve watch the previous video chapter on Peak Cheap Oil, you may be wondering how any of that could be still be true given all the positive recent stories about shale oil and shale gas , many of which have proclaimed that “Peak Oil is dead”. […]
Peak Oil Review – Nov 11
Peak Oil Review – Nov 11. 1. Oil and the Global Economy Oil prices fell sharply on Monday and Tuesday last week taking New York futures down from $81 a barrel to touch above $76 on Tuesday. Prices then recovered leaving NY oil to close out the week at $78.65, down 2.4 percent for the week and 27 […]
