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100 Things You Can Do To Prepare Yourself for Peak Oil
100 Things You Can Do To Prepare Yourself for Peak Oil Home: 1. If you live in a place where it gets hot in the summer, consider building a screen room (a room with screened windows all around or almost always around), either attached to your house or seperate. You can put a wood cookstove […]
Food shortages as the energy crisis grows and supply chains break?
Food shortages as the energy crisis grows and supply chains break? Preface. This is a long preface followed by two articles about how supply chains and complex tractors may be affected by energy shortages and consequent supply chain failures in the future.Which we’re already seeing as massive numbers of ships sit offshore waiting to be […]
Matt Simmons on Peak Oil
Matt Simmons on Peak Oil
Russian oil production update Nov 2021
Russian oil production update Nov 2021 Pic 1: Druzhba oil pipeline, refineries supplied https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/ce/7/4144/4136/Druzhba%20IEA.pngFig 2: Crude production peaked before Covid at around 10.6 mb/d That this production level would be some kind of limit was known for a long time April 2008 The IEA’s latest medium-term outlook, published in July, points to Russia as the […]
Is there a long emergency plan for peak oil?
Is there a long emergency plan for peak oil? Ever since I first learned about peak oil in 2000, the Master Resource that makes all other resources and activities possible, I’ve wondered what The Plan to cope with its decline and eventual disappearance was. So it wouldn’t be just a long emergency plan, but a […]
Peak Fossil Fuels: overview of world peak oil, peak coal, & peak natural gas
Peak Fossil Fuels: overview of world peak oil, peak coal, & peak natural gas Source: World gas peaks in 2040 roughly. Delannoy L et al (2021) Assessing Global Long-Term EROI of Gas: A Net-Energy Perspective on the Energy Transition. Energies. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14165112 Preface. Below are overviews of peak oil, coal, and natural gas, each followed by additional […]
Peak oil is here!
Peak oil is here! Preface. Peak oil is here! The global production of crude oil happened in November of 2018 (EIA 2020), and has declined for four years, enough time to officially declare global peak oil production. Conventional crude oil production leveled off in 2005, and peaked in 2008 at 69.5 million barrels per day (mb/d) […]
Russia’s Oil Output Could Peak In 2023
Russia’s Oil Output Could Peak In 2023 There are growing doubts as to whether Russia can grow petroleum production to the volumes forecast by Moscow. The world’s third-largest oil producer’s output will continue growing, peaking at 12.2 million barrels per day by mid-2023, according to Rystad Energy. A combination of extreme climate, rising depletion rates […]
The Impending World Energy Mess with Robert L. Hirsch
The Impending World Energy Mess with Robert L. Hirsch
A Practical Exercise Suggestion for Peak Oil Sceptics
A Practical Exercise Suggestion for Peak Oil Sceptics (Translated from Spanish by Amelia Burke, originally published in two parts.) When someone calls into question the existance of a peak in the production (extraction) of a non-renewable resource, which oil is, you should invite them to study carefully the curves of the Energy Export Databrowser. This Databrowser […]
Peak oil, economic growth and the big lie
Peak oil, economic growth and the big lie In the commentary on Peak Oil recently published in the leading scientific journal Nature, James Murray (the founding director of the University of Washington’s Program on Climate Change) and David King (the Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford) made the following […]
World Should Brace for Global Oil Shortage and Skyrocketing Price Due to Worsening Crisis
World Should Brace for Global Oil Shortage and Skyrocketing Price Due to Worsening Crisis According to economists, chronic underinvestment in new oil supply since the 2015 crisis, as well as pressure on oil and gas corporations to reduce emissions and even “keep it in the ground,” would likely lead to global oil output peaking sooner than […]
Robert Hirsh on Peak Oil
Robert Hirsh on Peak Oil
These Are The ‘Good Old Days’
These Are The ‘Good Old Days’ At tipping points like now, the steps we take in the present determine our future If you prefer to listen to the author read this article, Click Here. Bill was 48 when his wife stunned him with a request for divorce. Right up until that moment, he’d thought everything was […]
The decline of oil has already begun
The decline of oil has already begun In 1961, when I was 14, working on a science fair project, my father – a geologist and petroleum engineer – explained oil depletion to me. To grow production, oil companies were drilling deeper and deeper wells, developing technologies to extract more oil from spent fields, and would […]
