Kenneth Deffeyes, former Shell Geologist and author of "Hubbert's Peak,", "Beyond Oil," and "When Oil Peaked" thinks that peak oil already occurred in 2005 / 2006 and the economic problems we have are a result of this. Time will show. We will see it in the rear view mirror much like in the US back in 1973. US Oil peaked in 1970 but we were not aware of it (painfully) until the Arab oil embargo of 1973.
Hmmm, whats all the fuss about Iran at the moment? I wonder if it has anything to do with the China-Iran energy cooperation given that Iran is the last great oil prize and that China is in a battle with the west for the worlds last remaining energy reserves? I cannot help but think that 2010 may be a very interesting year to say the least. Once again 5 stars ;-)
PO will result in a massive die off of the earth's population. Somewhere around minus 80-90%. All you need do to convince yourself of this is to overlay a population on top of a chart of world oil production. 1-1.5 Billion people is where we're headed. It's not the end of the world. Just a different kind of world. One without globalization, Tilapia from Vietnam, Beef from Uruguay, Sea Bass from Chile, and definitely without the mountains of plastic crap from China that is shipped here every day.
I welcome the coming post peak oil age even though life will be much less comfortable then. The economical world we experienced in the last 6 decades has ruined many cultures. The age of homo colossus plundered the Earth like never before. Today we are governed by bankers and their bought politicians. It would be great if we peak oil could free us from those owners of the modern world and grant us a chance for a new beginning on a very basic human level, that's the promise of the coming dark age
While I do welcome the post peak age because it just might spare the lineage of plants and animals that have not been killed off yet, there is almost nothing else I welcome about it. The amount of suffering we will bear witness to will be unlike anything we have encountered. The only reason slavery was abolished is because machines did a much better job. Without that technology, we are going to reawaken all the sins of the past.
Veritas, I don't think that human beings can be truely enlightened, I support the pessimism of the German philosopher A. Schopenhauer: the human mind is always corrupted in some way by emotional and subconscious contents. But slavery of any kind isn't automatically the default mode of our social structures. While it is true that surplus energy and technology have liberated many slaves from their masters, they created new kinds of slavery. To avoid sins of the past you can only remember & learn.
Thanks, I keep hearing stories from some of my friends and colleagues that keep bumping into evidence at conferences etc. All of the peices of the puzzle are starting to fit together very clearly.
I think that Peak OIL is appearing more and more likely to be the mainstream academic consensus. This is bad news for the species because the infrastructure problems we're going to be facing in the very near future are going to "rock our world". TSHTF scenario is definitely not off the table IMHO.
Are you talking no A.C cmon who would wanna live without it? LOL
sandspoint 1 year ago
Kenneth Deffeyes, former Shell Geologist and author of "Hubbert's Peak,", "Beyond Oil," and "When Oil Peaked" thinks that peak oil already occurred in 2005 / 2006 and the economic problems we have are a result of this. Time will show. We will see it in the rear view mirror much like in the US back in 1973. US Oil peaked in 1970 but we were not aware of it (painfully) until the Arab oil embargo of 1973.
rdsanchez1966 1 year ago
Hmmm, whats all the fuss about Iran at the moment? I wonder if it has anything to do with the China-Iran energy cooperation given that Iran is the last great oil prize and that China is in a battle with the west for the worlds last remaining energy reserves? I cannot help but think that 2010 may be a very interesting year to say the least. Once again 5 stars ;-)
johnTconover 2 years ago
PO will result in a massive die off of the earth's population. Somewhere around minus 80-90%. All you need do to convince yourself of this is to overlay a population on top of a chart of world oil production. 1-1.5 Billion people is where we're headed. It's not the end of the world. Just a different kind of world. One without globalization, Tilapia from Vietnam, Beef from Uruguay, Sea Bass from Chile, and definitely without the mountains of plastic crap from China that is shipped here every day.
GoldenBoughTrader 2 years ago
I welcome the coming post peak oil age even though life will be much less comfortable then. The economical world we experienced in the last 6 decades has ruined many cultures. The age of homo colossus plundered the Earth like never before. Today we are governed by bankers and their bought politicians. It would be great if we peak oil could free us from those owners of the modern world and grant us a chance for a new beginning on a very basic human level, that's the promise of the coming dark age
Bernd1964 2 years ago 5
Seems like homo colossus will devolve into homo pusillus.
yogiudo 2 years ago
agreed
boundtogetdown 2 years ago
@Bernd1964
While I do welcome the post peak age because it just might spare the lineage of plants and animals that have not been killed off yet, there is almost nothing else I welcome about it. The amount of suffering we will bear witness to will be unlike anything we have encountered. The only reason slavery was abolished is because machines did a much better job. Without that technology, we are going to reawaken all the sins of the past.
Veritas357 2 years ago
Veritas, I don't think that human beings can be truely enlightened, I support the pessimism of the German philosopher A. Schopenhauer: the human mind is always corrupted in some way by emotional and subconscious contents. But slavery of any kind isn't automatically the default mode of our social structures. While it is true that surplus energy and technology have liberated many slaves from their masters, they created new kinds of slavery. To avoid sins of the past you can only remember & learn.
Bernd1964 2 years ago
Great Report..... 2010 gonna be rough... gotta believe XOM is doing the best data crunching they can ...
UnderseaCaveman 2 years ago
Thanks, I keep hearing stories from some of my friends and colleagues that keep bumping into evidence at conferences etc. All of the peices of the puzzle are starting to fit together very clearly.
I think that Peak OIL is appearing more and more likely to be the mainstream academic consensus. This is bad news for the species because the infrastructure problems we're going to be facing in the very near future are going to "rock our world". TSHTF scenario is definitely not off the table IMHO.
yogiudo 2 years ago
Indeed, it takes more 'energy' to produce
oil from sands that it yeilds.
BLynchCAN 2 years ago
BLynchCAN, Kudos.
jimbobubbadj 2 years ago
It may be negative indeed EROEI. And even if it is positive the net energies gotta be low..
Thanks,
yogiudo 2 years ago