{"id":15122,"date":"2015-12-09T07:52:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T12:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15122"},"modified":"2015-12-09T07:53:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T12:53:02","slug":"peak-oil-imagine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15122","title":{"rendered":"Peak Oil: Imagine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/peakoilmatters.com\/2015\/12\/08\/peak-oil-imagine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peak Oil: Imagine<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"postHeader\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8313\" src=\"http:\/\/peakoilmatters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/122_2247-225x169.jpg\" alt=\"122_2247\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"postContent\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Imagine<\/em>\u00a0what would happen if citizens took a moment or two to ponder the implications of the nonsense peddled to them daily by those public voices having decidedly different priorities than the public\u2019s continued well-being\u2026.<span id=\"more-8304\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thanks to investment into supercomputers, robotics and the use of chemicals to extract the maximum from available reservoirs, the accessible oil and gas reserves will almost double by 2050.<br \/>\nTogether with the development of renewable resources and nuclear power, the world will thus have more than 20 times the amount of energy it needs to cover its consumption despite growing demand.<br \/>\n\u2018Energy resources are plentiful. Concerns over running out of oil and gas have disappeared,\u2019 said David Eyton, BP Group Head of Technology at the launch of BP\u2019s inaugural Technology Outlook.<br \/>\n\u2018We are probably nearing the point where potential from additional recovery from discovered reservoirs exceeds the potential for exploration.\u2019<br \/>\nTogether with the development of renewable resources and nuclear power, the world will thus have more than 20 times the amount of energy it needs to cover its consumption despite growing demand. [1]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Isn\u2019t that fantastic? We\u2019re using chemicals [mostly\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2015\/11\/25\/3725778\/fracking-chemicals-who-knows\/\" target=\"_blank\">undisclosed<\/a>, of course] to \u201cextract the maximum from available reservoirs\u201d and we don\u2019t even have to explain what that does and does not mean! Double fantastic! As if that\u2019s not enough, no mention of costs, quality, or anything else! Wow!<\/p>\n<p>Better still: by developing \u201crenewable resources and nuclear power, the world will thus have more than 20 times the amount of energy it needs to cover its consumption despite growing demand\u201d and we don\u2019t even have to say a word about those pesky concerns as to having all the necessary infrastructure in place; research requirements and obstacles; funding challenges; worries about nuclear accidents \u2026 hell, we don\u2019t have to explain a single issue about how this will all magically fall into place!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peak Oil: Imagine &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Imagine\u00a0what would happen if citizens took a moment or two to ponder the implications of the nonsense peddled to them daily by those public voices having decidedly different priorities than the public\u2019s continued well-being\u2026. Thanks to investment into supercomputers, robotics and the use of chemicals to extract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1426,617,10552,655],"class_list":["post-15122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-misinformation","tag-peak-oil","tag-peak-oil-matters","tag-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15124,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15122\/revisions\/15124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}