Peak oil is when good sources of easy oil become harder and harder to find and take more resources to get out of the ground. It is my understanding that the earth will never run out of oil, but it will get to the point where you are using the same amount of oil you get out of the ground just to get it, which would be ridiculous.
@EmilioCasavegas I woner if we would have them screaming about socilasim if we explain the dangers from peak oil i think the biggest problem is are goverments not willing to talk about it in public people dont realise how its oil that feeds the population not money....
@ORAINY1 Your money will be worthless if society breaks down because of peak oil and owning propertys is no security as you will only keep it if you can defend it....
I love that you used Destination Earth. Oil Company animation encouraging everyone to be blind rampant comsumers turned to good. Makes me smile every time I see it being used like this! :)
We are all children of oil, we've spent our childhoods with everything money can by. But very soon we could become orphans, with no inheritance or safeguards in place and no immediate alternate family members, only outstanding debts. We will be young children who will have to adapt to having little and surviving whilst we grieve the loss of our dead parents. How will we, small and helpless, achieve that?
Either we will work together or we will become torn apart by what has happened.
I think it's funny because the video speaks as if there are actual replacements for oil....but there isn't. As stated the farming industry relies heavily on petroleum products, what it didn't say is how much. To put it into perspective it's estimated that for ever calorie of food we consume it took 10 calories from petroleum products to produce. Our soils have also been leached of nutrients because of the fertilizers/pesticides. So we should expect massive worldwide famine as a reality.
Great video but what isn't understood is that, yes it takes millions of years to form oil/coal but it also takes millions of tons of living material to be suddenly covered up with millions of tons of other material. Everyone knows if you put a dead thing on the ground outside it becomes dust it doesn't become oil. So basically the Earth has to be hit by a giant asteroid or the poles have to shift violently and then we can have future oil, otherwise appreciate what we have now.
where i live everything is hydro powered. I think you do need a bit of oil though to run some of the machinery. I think places with hydro are gonna be the last to go.
and quite honestly, i think America is fighting a resource war right now. over in iraq, and trying to get canada (where i live) to bring water pipelines to the states so they can suck up all canadas water.
I live in Alberta, a major oil supplier, and the attitudes people have here are as shocking their general ignorance of how inefficient an oil economy is. I have to hear the redneck with the gas-guzzling truck complain about the price at the pump as if it were some conspiracy set against him. But he won't stand to hear anything against his right to drive a vehicle that he doesn't need and which is, frankly, a big part of the problem.
Energy + air + water can create all the products created from oil. Thorium can produce this energy at a price cheaper than coal. We have enough easily recoverable thorium to completely power the world for thousands of years.
The Tesla thing is a quaint idea... and it might actually work. That is, if we can find a way to extract materials to build them, find a way to construct them, AND find a way to maintain them ALL without using petroleum-based products. Good freakin luck. The fact is that there is no liquid on the earth that is as energy rich, as cheap, and as abundant as oil once was, and is. New technology wont help, because our technology to date is from..you guessed it...oil. Hunker down... and survive...
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Next to water, oil is the greatest life saving, life prolonging, life enhancing substance in the world. We should have a national oil appreciation day where school children write essays on how oil is important to them. But alas, oil is just another dirty word like profit, corporation, pesticides, free market ...
@lastmondaypast1 Oil is basicly hydrogen and carbon arranged in hundreds of different molecules. Gasoline, butane, propane, tar are just arrangements of hydrogen and carbon. If we have cheap unlimited energy, we can make all of these substances by extracting hydrogen from water and c02 from air. Fortunately for us we have that energy in the form of thorium which can be used in a nuclear reactor and there is an unlimited supply. Check out "Green Freedom" and LFTR.
@bogusnachos Thorium is also non-renewable, even more so than petroleum. Petroleum just takes millions of years to replenish, while thorium is irreplacable. I think that ethanol would be a better idea. Mix it with sulphuric acid, and you get a clean source of ethylene, a hydrocarbon. Ethanol is also renewable, another bonus. Ethanol is a green, complete alternative to petroleum is every way: I'm surprised we chose oil over ethanol when we had the choice with the Model T.
@SpaceTime4D Thorium is inexhaustible - thousands of times more energy then in all the fossil fuels combined - we could power the entire population of the planet at American energy consumption rates for thousands of years. Arable land is needed for growing food not growing fuel. The eroei for ethanol is awful - at most 1.3.
Ima say it.... Oil is the best thing that happened to mankind SO FAR. It is cheap, it easy to get (mostly), and it burns very very very well. Oil is the reason why our technology has advanced so far and why certain countries are prospering....... Getting off oil is going to be extremely hard.
Nothing can and nothing will ever replace oil. Hopefully we find a substitute for everything oil has provided us....... and soon
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actually if u make the tesla radiant energy antenna system you can make energy from the cosmic rays that bombard the earth every day, i also made a small working model of this as well, if anyone wants to see how it works come check it out, all free info for free energy. tesla made a very strong system about 1000 times more powerful than a crookes radiometer, and this eqautes to a continuous 50 volts to run most household equipment. just google tesla radiant energy. incredible technology :)
We have the technology and remaining extraneous energy to switch over to alternatives but the cost is too great. One of the best methods is extraction of solar energy form space but making space panels to fuel our needs comes at a huge cost in labor (expertise). There is also wind tidal and wave and even geothermal (although this actually produces emissions and managing those may cost a large fraction of the heat energy mined. even though about 13 Yottajoules of energy are produced...
@MacabreManifesto the tesla system is not really costly, if we put the billions going into the CERn then we could make this system right now with 1/10th the cost, reduce co2 emission, reduce nuclear disaster, give energy to the whole world, use a ton less energy through the use of resonance reinforcement, its very possible, like i said i made a basic model with 20 ft because i am a commoner, i dont have any money,but this same system can go 1000 ft to a mile if not more with the right funding.
@boxa888 Please tell me what the source of Tesla's energy is! Not what generates it but it's source. What is the Tesla system? He invented AC which is what we use to transfer electricity from generators to our houses in our electrical "system" but what is Tesla's fantastic magical generator that will save us all and from where does it generate energy?
@MacabreManifesto the tesla radiant energy antenna system you can make energy from the cosmic rays that bombard the earth every day, i also made a small working model of this as well, if anyone wants to see how it works come check it out, all free info for free energy. tesla made a very strong system about 1000 times more powerful than a crookes radiometer, and this eqautes to a continuous 50 volts to run most household equipment. just google tesla radiant energy. incredible technology
Fewer cars on the roads? Yeah right. There's two billion Chinese and Indians waiting to buy their first car now. And boat. And scooter. And grass mower. And lots of other stuff that is gonna increase the oil consumption. Its time Americans stop driving V8's and downgrade to straight-four's that have 1/3 the capacity, and consumption.
@sangolt88 NIKOLA TESLA could have saved us from this 100 yrs ago! please look it up, he created a wireless energy system that allowed energy to be obtained anywhere on earth! i put up info on my youtube and i demostrate a 20 ft wireless transmission to prove that the system works! we could build it right away and get off of this oil dependence, you can run cars wirelessly. please read tesla's "increasing human energy" it tells u real clean energy
@boxa888 What is the source of this energy? You can't just stick an antenna in the air and absorb some random energy out of nothing. Energy is generated through chemical and nuclear reactions of Matter (which is technically energy in-and-of itself but not the kind of potential energy that we transform into kinetic energy to move shit around, unless it is uranium-238 which doesn't take too much energy input to extract energy from it's material form, which is why fission reactors work). We can...
@boxa888 What is the source of this energy? You can't just stick an antenna in the air and absorb some random energy out of nothing. Energy is generated through chemical and nuclear reactions of Matter (which is technically energy in-and-of itself but not the kind of potential energy that we transform into kinetic energy to move shit around, unless it is uranium-238 which doesn't take too much energy input to extract energy from it's material form, which is why fission reactors work). We can...
They were saying peak oil was going to happen in 1919. The reason peak oil is misleading, is that as the price increases, not only do people learn to economize on their own, and use less, but drilling companies now find it profitable to drill where it was more expensive and not profitable at the lower price. So as the price increases, supply also increases. Not only that, but as oil prices rise, renewable alternatives begin to become more and more attractive.
@missscooool hahahaaahahahahahahahahaha its not gold -- they are called "fossil fuels" because they are made from decomposing plants and animals . . .
Good video but there is a major flaw in it. Since oil (as all types of energy) has a low price elasticity even a small shortage will cause a huge price increse. 5% shortage will probably cause a price increase of 300-400%. There are many real world examples. The oil crisis in the 70's, the price shock in 2008, NG shortage in California a few years back, etc
The cost column should increase much more when supply can't meet demand.
I still just can't understand why is it stated that at some point in time, when roughly half of the reserves of oil have been depleted, the extraction rate will slow down. Why wouldn't we, for example, extract 80% of all oil and Then slow it down? (not saying we should consume more oil, I just don't understand this theory). Why is it exactly at the half?
@raiki15 its because of pressure. you see oil resevoirs are under pressure. the pressure is what actually brings the oil to the surface. as we deplete an oil resevior the pressure decreases. therefore when an oil field begins to decline in production there is no way to reverse the process because the resevoir lacks the pressure to bring anymore than 1 million barrels a day to the surface. than a year later there only enough pressure to bring 800,000 a day and every year it decrease further
@raiki15 oil fields are not like faucets that we can control the flow of which the oil comes to the surface until they run dry. in fact a good prtion of the oil in a resevoir never comes to the suface because at some point there is not enough pressure underground to bring anymore oil to the surface. that is why oil production when graphed follows a bell curve that mirrors oil finds. roughly 40 years after an oil field is found its production will begin to decline
we go extreme solar power. i say extreme because we might cover the surface area on the sun with solar panels. the only problem is we must act now. what's wrong with that concept??
@MidnightRedemption keeping them in a high planetary orbit -- the problem is effeciently gettin the energy to the surface -- 500 mile + drop cords into orbit just do not work. It might be doable with our current technology -- though I dont know how people will react to a giant microwave beam from space.
@St8Solja yes, it would go up with more demand. But remember, oil is a finite resource and like everything that is finite, one day, it disappears. I don't know if you were referring to the growth of population but more people = less oil for everyone and quite some people already said that we have already or are about to reach peak oil. So, if the oil prices rise, along with this economic crise, we are...how can I say this...Screwed. We are in a do or die situation. We have to change immediatly.
@St8Solja oil production would go up even though there will be increasing demand because the decrease in available supply will be greater than the increasing demand
@St8Solja oil production will go down because it is a limited resource. there is only so much oil below the earth's surface. peak oil will occur when we reach that limit.
We have to debate which is the BEST source of clean energy.
My guess (for FF's replacement) is either 50,000 sq miles of solar PV (which would HAVE to be mined, robotically made, distributed AND installed by same giant oil company like business in order to reduce costs by MANY factors). Likewise for battery storage.
Or
LFTR, the safest longest lasting (thorium and spent fuel) fission...
All other RE (to date) simply can not replace this great oil economy, Wind energy, well, barely..
Peak Oil is a fact. You can only argue over the 'when' but even the optomistic amongst you will be explaining to your grandkids why you did nothing about it unless you take it seriously now. Peak oil, peak gas, peak coal, peak water. They are all issues that you, your kids and your grandkids will deal with, and may well die because of.
If you are interested in this I would also view "A cubic mile of oil" and "The most important video you will ever see"
First of all, realy good job with the video. A really good primer for the complex topic of Peak Oil.
Secondly, I am quite interested in your thesis and its subject. I am studying similar things here and I'm also thinking about a thesis along the same lines, but more towards news and online news. Incidentally - and what brought me here - was the fact that I am currently taking Dynamic Visualization Design and I picked the topic of peak oil to visualize. Can I view you thesis anywhere?
It's funny how $147 per barrel oil didn't raise conventional oil production as much as high oil spikes used to. It's downright scary that Saudi Arabia is moving future oil production growth to expensive offshore production.....
Peak oil already will destroy 5 billion of the world's population by simple mathematics and the law of thermodynamics. All the other talk of "the economy" is moot. The economy=energy. Not money, gold, nor products, etc. Without sufficient hydrocarbon energy our planet must go back to the amount of sunlight that humans can capture per year to support our species. What is really developed that can realistically do that at this time?
There are now only about 3 countries that can increase their oil production and they are in the Middle East. The next year should be interesting once the global economy picks up again.....
Agreed, usual economics suggest huge increase in price means basically people buy less, however it's about time OPEC nations started giving real estimates on reserves not false ones to keep exports at a maximum. We need to tackle this properly and as a world together we are human and we will always find a way when we have to, now is the time.
The problem with the peak oil doomsday scenario is the same oversight Malthus made -- he didn't recognize that increased prices stimulate innovation and alternatives.
NOBODY gets rich from producing more kids and then getting a welfare check for it. Where the fuck do you think the welfare check goes? To feed the kids!
Saying otherwise HURTS the cause to fight overpopulation and HURTS the cause of outlawing reproduction by stupid selfish people - whether rich OR poor.
@plavins1 Population will always grow. People will not stop fucking. We can reduce the growth rate however, by having a punishment for all those fucking idiot teenagers who can't fuck with protections. All those pregnant teens having babies when they can't even taking care of themselves. The government needs to stop the welfare for those teen mom because it encourages them to have kids just to get the welfare to spend on themselves.
IF there will be a future, and I'm serious about this, and IF people will remember the details of our society, then they will be shocked about EVERYTHING that those people I see everyday in front of me did. EVERYTHING!
Now don't you believe that it will be for them less disgusting than for someone seeing the only love being skullfucked with a shit covered, barbed wire by a Nazi rapist.
Hi there, I am actually for peak oil happening in my lifetime (maybe next 1-10 years) and was wondering what are the arguments against peak oil? I just think its important to have a balanced argument. Ive looked into the Alberta tar sands and think its ridiculous to get oil from that source (look into their process!).
To replace all the fossil oil consumed today would need all the available agricultural land to grow the hemp seed oil. So ok if you dont want to eat.
As for the oil never running out, that is correct it will just get more and more costly as production falls so people will stop using it hence there will be some left.
Demand reduction (destruction) will only delay the inevitable.
On the most fundamental level the global economy is literally burning up the underpinning value that supports the systems. Stock values will crash again.
It is a little like using a large hammer and knocking big holes in the foundation of your house every day. How long will it stand?
Burn more oil, coal, and natural gas every day, eventually it is converted to CO2
@bolshevikML you are right about the fact that oil will never run out because as the production falls the price will go up and less will get used. So it will never run out we will just stop using it. You can choose not to worry about this but I would encourage you to look around yourself and work out how you are going to do most things you do now without oil.
If we force down the demand for oil, the price would drop and we'd increase consumption of the product we're addicted to...... Growth in economies will eventually run into nature's limits and a new steady state model will have to take over. We'll probably turn coal into liquids out of desparation and accept a polluted world so we don't have to change the model will live in....
Isn't it AMAZING what a chemical engineer can create with petroleum? I'm always impressed by its non-fuel uses! :D
Anyway, this is a sci-fi premise. Free markets don't go to war. They pace themselves and make innovations.
We haven't been using oil long enough given planetary scale. It'd take thousands of years. Until then there are plenty of reserves. Most are off limits due to permits. Others, because the drill tech isn't there yet. You don't think we had oil rig tech from the 1800s did you?
Those who don't believe in peak oil say that we will never run out of oil. In a way that is true, we will never be able to extract all the oil out of the earth. However the reason for that is that it would take more energy to extract all the oil out of the earth than we would get from it.
Peak oil is basically the point where we have hit the peak of our ability to produce oil. No matter how much oil the earth may have, if we cannot get to it we cannot produce any energy.
:28 was kind of misleading. It's not about running out of oil (there is plenty). It's about the easy oil being extracted already and the difficult oil costing too much than we can gain from it (i.e. putting more energy than we get out). But, yes it is a reality. The movie 'Collapse' was very interesting.
@jaguarclaw Yeah, oil companies lie about how much oil they have. They say they have more than they do. If they were to tell the truth, people would start to switch over to wind, solar, etc. and stop buying gasoline.
It's true that oil will be renewed, but that will be in millions of years. If mother earth is lucky, humans will have died out by then.
@Angelheart1700 There are issues with Solar that holds it back. The issue of keeping the panels CLEAN ironically. Bugs are drawn to them like moths to a flame, and birds poop on them.
Not to mention how susceptible they are to cloud cover. Only nukes have proven to be sustainable in a manner that will realistically be supported by the market.
Most else is forced and doomed to fail. They've been advocating solar and wind since the 70s. Its not accepted because it doesn't work.
@TheTrueHolyDarkness "the United States will surpass Germany to be the largest market for solar power in the world by 2011, according to a report by JP Morgan,"
I'd love to see a report that says PO isn't going to be a problem. Contradicting the Lloyds 360 risk assessment, the military's Joint Operating Env. report and every article published by ASPO. No, please tell me its going to be ok. Please!
$35bn in subsidies for oil companies, is that the free market too ? get a clue.
@walter0bz Nuclear power is the only viable substitute for petrol that keeps that from happening. I agree. Solar and Wind power are all well and good, but solar panels and wind turbines aren't sustainable, they still have to be manufactured with finite materials. We need to explore space IMHO for more abundant fuels.
current generation nuclear reactors take between 5 and 10 years to build excluding approval and legal battles for and against, Uranium extraction is declining globally. decommissioning nuclear reactors takes 5 - 10 years and a lot of effort. while it is a powerful source of energy nuclear isnt viable by itself.
Oil is created deep in the earth by totally natural processes of pressure and heat working on chemical elements creating hydrocarbons, methane and oil.
The fossil fuel theory is totally Bunk and along with it the idea of peak oil.
It is used to create the artificial idea of scarcity to keep price high.
Please research 'endless oil' - Russian geologists drill deep to get oil from reserves that replenish themselves.
@jaguarclaw If you were considering rebutting by citing wind and hydro power as non-sun forms of energy, these also ultimately get their energy from the sun. Evaporation is caused by the sun which fuels hydro power. Wind is also caused by uneven heating of the atmosphere, so these are also basically "solar power." These forms have very low return rates for energy put in vs energy out, so none of this will ever come close to the energy we have from oil. It is pure stupidity to waste it all.
@jaguarclaw Oil is a very highly concentrated form of solar energy, and if we consume it all like selfish gluttons, we will have run out of the sole reason that our global population grew so large. All energy for our planet ultimately comes form the sun. Oil and coal is just stacked solar power, so when we run out, we will have to rely simply on current solar, which isn't packed with much energy. This is simple physics. If we use up all of the energy now, there will be none left for the future.
When we do start to run low, I saw we find a new fuel source (obviously), and all the left over oil we save to make plastic, and gasoline for old cars in the distant future (IE: 2110, a WWII memorial parade, with Sherman tanks, and a Willies jeep. {sure you could use batteries, or corn oil, but it's just not the same as a noisy, smelly, chocking fume emitting gasoline heavy tank engine})
@SuddenCatharsis you should stop 'believing' things and start looking at the facts. It doesnt matter what you believe it the facts that tell us what will happen. half the oil is gone and that was the easy half the rest is expensive to get and in a lot of cases will take more energy to get than we will get back from it. I hope you are old or else you are going to hate most of the rest of your life.
to all the nay-sayers: Just consider the consequence of inaction... VS doing something to curb our exponential consumption of somthing we KNOW is a limited resource. Doing nothing and continuing on this path has major risks. Making changes gives us the opportunity to go on with a degree of assurance that we will not be forwarding the plot to our own demise.
The global peak of discover happened in 1964. The trend is clear. Over time fewer and smaller deposits are found. All the easy stuff has been found. Now comes the hard lifting. Production started at zero and to zero it will return. At the half way point, production rates start to decrease. We're very close to the half way point. There are very few mysteries about how much and where the oil is. What remains to be discovered is tiny compared to what's already found.
The fact is: we can't all use the bathroom at the same time. Too many people growing too fast consuming too much with no regard for the future = a diet. The planet will cut the fat. Exponential growth forever on limited space is physically impossible.
@AuguryBot Population will always grow. People will not stop fucking. We can reduce the growth rate however, by having a punishment for all those fucking idiot teenagers who can't fuck with protections. All those pregnant teens having babies when they can't even taking care of themselves. The government needs to stop the welfare for those teen mom because it encourages them to have kids just to get the welfare to spend on themselves.
Peak oil would indeed be a tragedy of epic proportions, however I was hoping for at least a hint of hard scientific proof establishing a ceiling to global supplies.
How on earth could anyone merely GUESS that we've reached "peak oil"? IMHO, we've only scratched the surface of VAST pockets of natural resources.
OH!! Almost forgot! AGW is nothing but a HOAX to control us! Never trust the government people!
It would behoove us all to live in a sustainable manner, ON OUR OWN! INDEPENDENTLY!
All irrelevent, fusion energy will carry us into the next phase. Once we fully control the energy of the atom, we wont run out of energy for a very long time. We still need oil for our other products, but with recycling, reducing and reusing those objects, then we probably can last for a very long time.
There are a lot of dumb green movement people, not all biofuel are good. Solar and wind wont save the day. Nuclear energy is our only chance.
@trollsofalabama Fusion's most optimistic estimates for a grid connected reactor is 30-40 years.
Peak oil is anywhere between 5-15 years.
Theres some bridging of gaps to be done.
Also I agree, there ARE a lot of dumb green movement people that don't think the whole thing out. Having said that, I am a big proponent of reduced energy living, as well as sustainable agriculture supported by local permaculture.
@trollsofalabama Interesting, I first heard about fusion energy nearly 50 yrs ago and at that time scientists were saying it would be 50 yrs before we had a working reactor producing power. They still are saying 40 - 50 yrs so don't hold your breath.
It is time to prepare and STOP believing government will SAVE us!!!, time to be self sustainable, that is the only way, and only those who understand WILL survive!, I am also positive with kpsvw412 that peak oil is MUCH closer than this video suggests or many people day dream of...
It is time to STOP believing the government is going to SAVE us!!! For those who are so stupid no worries, we do not need/ want you to survive!. I believe we others, who have our brain & knowledge in place WE are starting to prepare, being self sustainable, planting our own food etc. THOSE are who count!, those will make the future of the strong who survived.
The greenpeace solution to the problem seems to me to be FREEZE PROGRESS. "Fewer cars on the road..." they say. Let me get this straight: we conserve oil, meanwhile world population goes up + fewer cars on the road, all adds up to: everybody sits on their ass.
SCREW THAT
Scientists right now are developing Nuclear Fusion which beats the pants off solar and wind.NASA is going back to the moon, eventually we will mine H3 up their for clean Fusion fuel. But until then we need oil to run our cars.
@URProductions Fusion is 30-50 years away. Heck, it was 30-50 years away in the 1950's.
How does fewer cars on the road mean people sitting on their asses? I'd say the reverse is true. You'd have to explain that bit of your argument to me.
KilonBerlin does not know what he/she is talking about. If they read up, they would realise that the increasing world demand for oil practically wipes out the recent 'large' discoveries and only shifts the peak by perhaps a year or two at most. The next twenty years will be fascinating times.
Reducing our consumption of oil is the goal. However as you can see from the video we rely on it heavily. All the fuel for cars, transportation of goods, airplane fuel, fertilizers for the food we grow etc. Changing all of this is not going to be easy.
First of all, I would like to point out that global warming is not real and was created by scientists at East Anglia for the UN to pass cap and trade.
Second, no amount of alternative energy: wind, solar, tidal, ethanol, can even come close to the amount of energy produced from oil.
Thirdly, our current system is way too big and complicated to overhaul and make "green", especially over a short period of only 30 years.
Conclusion: We are fucked. Prepare for the collapse, now.
@nowaywtf Theres no magical way to force demand to decrease without having alternatives in place. Which I don't trust the structure we have now to make a smooth transition.
@nowaywtf Demand reduction (destruction) will only delay the inevitable.
On the most fundamental level the global economy is literally burning up the underpinning value that supports the systems. Stock values will crash again.
It is a little like using a large hammer and knocking big holes in the foundation of your house every day. How long will it stand?
Burn more oil, coal, and natural gas every day, eventually it is converted to CO2
You CAN make it through peak oil. Efficiency, vegetarianism, HPVs, localized economies, organic food, permaculture, getting rid of the money system, ending the economic wars, ending the militaristic wars, getting rid of unproductive jobs, end of rich people, sharing the power, innovation, progress, learning, reorientation, hemp, free energy research, alternative energy, conservation, information, consciousness, stop of all brainwashing industries, IT COULD BE DONE BUT NO ONE WANTS TO.
Peak oil is when good sources of easy oil become harder and harder to find and take more resources to get out of the ground. It is my understanding that the earth will never run out of oil, but it will get to the point where you are using the same amount of oil you get out of the ground just to get it, which would be ridiculous.
usernameT916 1 week ago
Oil will never run out, you have nothing to worry about !
bolshevikML 2 months ago
We should be keeping are main oil reserves for food production not so people can drive round 4x4 vehicles....
MrBorderghost 2 months ago 5
@MrBorderghost Yes, we should. But then we'd have 100 million people screaming and whining about "socialism."
EmilioCasavegas 2 months ago
@EmilioCasavegas I woner if we would have them screaming about socilasim if we explain the dangers from peak oil i think the biggest problem is are goverments not willing to talk about it in public people dont realise how its oil that feeds the population not money....
MrBorderghost 2 months ago
i got billions of dolars .... so i dont care
ORAINY1 3 months ago
@ORAINY1 Your money will be worthless if society breaks down because of peak oil and owning propertys is no security as you will only keep it if you can defend it....
MrBorderghost 2 months ago
Are we using actually cheap petroleum to build alternatives ? No...We made 4x4!
xxxfantomasxxx 4 months ago
I love that you used Destination Earth. Oil Company animation encouraging everyone to be blind rampant comsumers turned to good. Makes me smile every time I see it being used like this! :)
minibeastgirl 4 months ago
@Turbo05Dodge actually since the 1890s lol...
zwdog1122 5 months ago
I always wonder why we are so blind not to see what awaits us. Energy crisis will be the mother of all crises (not this debt crisis we have now).
Really enlightening clip. Congratulations.
SrDonAlejandro 5 months ago
Peak oil....promoting fear for the status quo power structure since 1970
Turbo05Dodge 5 months ago
I can almost guarantee that nanotech will solve these problems in the next 10 to 15 years
BeondaPale 5 months ago
looking forward to oil extinction!
RENEDU2 6 months ago
@RENEDU2 don't hold your breath
Turbo05Dodge 5 months ago
second generation and algal biofuels FTW
3tangle3 6 months ago
We are all children of oil, we've spent our childhoods with everything money can by. But very soon we could become orphans, with no inheritance or safeguards in place and no immediate alternate family members, only outstanding debts. We will be young children who will have to adapt to having little and surviving whilst we grieve the loss of our dead parents. How will we, small and helpless, achieve that?
Either we will work together or we will become torn apart by what has happened.
Standuble 7 months ago
Simple and concise, thanks
sam18a 7 months ago
I think it's funny because the video speaks as if there are actual replacements for oil....but there isn't. As stated the farming industry relies heavily on petroleum products, what it didn't say is how much. To put it into perspective it's estimated that for ever calorie of food we consume it took 10 calories from petroleum products to produce. Our soils have also been leached of nutrients because of the fertilizers/pesticides. So we should expect massive worldwide famine as a reality.
imreloadin2 7 months ago
@imreloadin2 thank you giant corp aggro farming and the governments who do everything in their power to keep them at the top.
Turbo05Dodge 5 months ago
Great video but what isn't understood is that, yes it takes millions of years to form oil/coal but it also takes millions of tons of living material to be suddenly covered up with millions of tons of other material. Everyone knows if you put a dead thing on the ground outside it becomes dust it doesn't become oil. So basically the Earth has to be hit by a giant asteroid or the poles have to shift violently and then we can have future oil, otherwise appreciate what we have now.
theoriginalprisonerX 8 months ago
My guess is 2025 it will decline rapidly.
xsting2 8 months ago
@xsting2 That figure is quite optimistic...
TIKIMAN198 7 months ago
LOL Apocalypse FTW
WhoTookMyPants1 8 months ago 2
where i live everything is hydro powered. I think you do need a bit of oil though to run some of the machinery. I think places with hydro are gonna be the last to go.
and quite honestly, i think America is fighting a resource war right now. over in iraq, and trying to get canada (where i live) to bring water pipelines to the states so they can suck up all canadas water.
lastmondaypast1 8 months ago
I live in Alberta, a major oil supplier, and the attitudes people have here are as shocking their general ignorance of how inefficient an oil economy is. I have to hear the redneck with the gas-guzzling truck complain about the price at the pump as if it were some conspiracy set against him. But he won't stand to hear anything against his right to drive a vehicle that he doesn't need and which is, frankly, a big part of the problem.
jessemaurais 8 months ago
1:13 Pretroleum? What's that? I heard of petroleum, but what's pretroleum?
SpaceTime4D 8 months ago
Energy + air + water can create all the products created from oil. Thorium can produce this energy at a price cheaper than coal. We have enough easily recoverable thorium to completely power the world for thousands of years.
bogusnachos 8 months ago
The Tesla thing is a quaint idea... and it might actually work. That is, if we can find a way to extract materials to build them, find a way to construct them, AND find a way to maintain them ALL without using petroleum-based products. Good freakin luck. The fact is that there is no liquid on the earth that is as energy rich, as cheap, and as abundant as oil once was, and is. New technology wont help, because our technology to date is from..you guessed it...oil. Hunker down... and survive...
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iitzBissainthe 9 months ago
Next to water, oil is the greatest life saving, life prolonging, life enhancing substance in the world. We should have a national oil appreciation day where school children write essays on how oil is important to them. But alas, oil is just another dirty word like profit, corporation, pesticides, free market ...
bogusnachos 9 months ago
@bogusnachos over 5 billion of the worlds population exists today ONLY because of oil.
So what happens when oil is gone?
lastmondaypast1 8 months ago
@lastmondaypast1 Oil is basicly hydrogen and carbon arranged in hundreds of different molecules. Gasoline, butane, propane, tar are just arrangements of hydrogen and carbon. If we have cheap unlimited energy, we can make all of these substances by extracting hydrogen from water and c02 from air. Fortunately for us we have that energy in the form of thorium which can be used in a nuclear reactor and there is an unlimited supply. Check out "Green Freedom" and LFTR.
bogusnachos 8 months ago
@bogusnachos Thorium is also non-renewable, even more so than petroleum. Petroleum just takes millions of years to replenish, while thorium is irreplacable. I think that ethanol would be a better idea. Mix it with sulphuric acid, and you get a clean source of ethylene, a hydrocarbon. Ethanol is also renewable, another bonus. Ethanol is a green, complete alternative to petroleum is every way: I'm surprised we chose oil over ethanol when we had the choice with the Model T.
SpaceTime4D 8 months ago
@SpaceTime4D Thorium is inexhaustible - thousands of times more energy then in all the fossil fuels combined - we could power the entire population of the planet at American energy consumption rates for thousands of years. Arable land is needed for growing food not growing fuel. The eroei for ethanol is awful - at most 1.3.
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chocolatediet11 9 months ago
Ima say it.... Oil is the best thing that happened to mankind SO FAR. It is cheap, it easy to get (mostly), and it burns very very very well. Oil is the reason why our technology has advanced so far and why certain countries are prospering....... Getting off oil is going to be extremely hard.
Nothing can and nothing will ever replace oil. Hopefully we find a substitute for everything oil has provided us....... and soon
Willsturd 9 months ago
18 people are in denial.
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nancyhofer 9 months ago
actually if u make the tesla radiant energy antenna system you can make energy from the cosmic rays that bombard the earth every day, i also made a small working model of this as well, if anyone wants to see how it works come check it out, all free info for free energy. tesla made a very strong system about 1000 times more powerful than a crookes radiometer, and this eqautes to a continuous 50 volts to run most household equipment. just google tesla radiant energy. incredible technology :)
boxa888 9 months ago
We have the technology and remaining extraneous energy to switch over to alternatives but the cost is too great. One of the best methods is extraction of solar energy form space but making space panels to fuel our needs comes at a huge cost in labor (expertise). There is also wind tidal and wave and even geothermal (although this actually produces emissions and managing those may cost a large fraction of the heat energy mined. even though about 13 Yottajoules of energy are produced...
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto ...each year by radioactivity within the core, which is more than 26,000 times more than what we use today so lets get to it.)
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto the tesla system is not really costly, if we put the billions going into the CERn then we could make this system right now with 1/10th the cost, reduce co2 emission, reduce nuclear disaster, give energy to the whole world, use a ton less energy through the use of resonance reinforcement, its very possible, like i said i made a basic model with 20 ft because i am a commoner, i dont have any money,but this same system can go 1000 ft to a mile if not more with the right funding.
boxa888 9 months ago
@boxa888 Please tell me what the source of Tesla's energy is! Not what generates it but it's source. What is the Tesla system? He invented AC which is what we use to transfer electricity from generators to our houses in our electrical "system" but what is Tesla's fantastic magical generator that will save us all and from where does it generate energy?
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
@MacabreManifesto the tesla radiant energy antenna system you can make energy from the cosmic rays that bombard the earth every day, i also made a small working model of this as well, if anyone wants to see how it works come check it out, all free info for free energy. tesla made a very strong system about 1000 times more powerful than a crookes radiometer, and this eqautes to a continuous 50 volts to run most household equipment. just google tesla radiant energy. incredible technology
boxa888 9 months ago
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MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
real shit
RottenPeachState706 10 months ago
Fewer cars on the roads? Yeah right. There's two billion Chinese and Indians waiting to buy their first car now. And boat. And scooter. And grass mower. And lots of other stuff that is gonna increase the oil consumption. Its time Americans stop driving V8's and downgrade to straight-four's that have 1/3 the capacity, and consumption.
sangolt88 10 months ago
@sangolt88 NIKOLA TESLA could have saved us from this 100 yrs ago! please look it up, he created a wireless energy system that allowed energy to be obtained anywhere on earth! i put up info on my youtube and i demostrate a 20 ft wireless transmission to prove that the system works! we could build it right away and get off of this oil dependence, you can run cars wirelessly. please read tesla's "increasing human energy" it tells u real clean energy
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boxa888 10 months ago
@boxa888 - the energy still has to come from somewhere.
proaudiohd 10 months ago
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MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
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@boxa888 What is the source of this energy? You can't just stick an antenna in the air and absorb some random energy out of nothing. Energy is generated through chemical and nuclear reactions of Matter (which is technically energy in-and-of itself but not the kind of potential energy that we transform into kinetic energy to move shit around, unless it is uranium-238 which doesn't take too much energy input to extract energy from it's material form, which is why fission reactors work). We can...
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
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@boxa888 What is the source of this energy? You can't just stick an antenna in the air and absorb some random energy out of nothing. Energy is generated through chemical and nuclear reactions of Matter (which is technically energy in-and-of itself but not the kind of potential energy that we transform into kinetic energy to move shit around, unless it is uranium-238 which doesn't take too much energy input to extract energy from it's material form, which is why fission reactors work). We can...
MacabreManifesto 9 months ago
We don't need to worry about peak oil! The world will end in 2012 anyway right???? :)
octagoncow 10 months ago
I've turned the comments back on to auto-posting. Will go back to moderation if need be.
decyphersmc 10 months ago
@decyphersmc ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.. 5 seconds worth of information, 3 minutes of annoying pictures and music. Not worth watching.
MichaelMantion 10 months ago
First off you have to believe it takes millions of years for oil to form. It does not take millions of years, it takes the right conditions
Much like a diamond.
Survivemich 10 months ago
we have already reached peak oil
TJX5IKE 10 months ago
@Se7enBeatleofDoom huh?
wynenot 10 months ago
drill,baby,drill! √ geothermal.
wynenot 10 months ago
most people on earth are animals...(YES I KNOW, HUMANS=ANIMALS)
TheLeadStriker 10 months ago
They were saying peak oil was going to happen in 1919. The reason peak oil is misleading, is that as the price increases, not only do people learn to economize on their own, and use less, but drilling companies now find it profitable to drill where it was more expensive and not profitable at the lower price. So as the price increases, supply also increases. Not only that, but as oil prices rise, renewable alternatives begin to become more and more attractive.
aguscapo 10 months ago
mine other planets...
missscooool 10 months ago
@missscooool F&^% the Na'vi let's Invade the crap out pandora! Unobtainium FTW!
Se7enBeatleofDoom 10 months ago
@missscooool hahahaaahahahahahahahahaha its not gold -- they are called "fossil fuels" because they are made from decomposing plants and animals . . .
UberLogic 10 months ago
If we stop breeding then crisis over rover :-)
bionicbrainbutt 10 months ago
Good video but there is a major flaw in it. Since oil (as all types of energy) has a low price elasticity even a small shortage will cause a huge price increse. 5% shortage will probably cause a price increase of 300-400%. There are many real world examples. The oil crisis in the 70's, the price shock in 2008, NG shortage in California a few years back, etc
The cost column should increase much more when supply can't meet demand.
ingeborgsjon 10 months ago
impressive video ! what software did you use for making it?
keep on the good work
JoanaPT 10 months ago
I still just can't understand why is it stated that at some point in time, when roughly half of the reserves of oil have been depleted, the extraction rate will slow down. Why wouldn't we, for example, extract 80% of all oil and Then slow it down? (not saying we should consume more oil, I just don't understand this theory). Why is it exactly at the half?
raiki15 11 months ago
@raiki15 its because of pressure. you see oil resevoirs are under pressure. the pressure is what actually brings the oil to the surface. as we deplete an oil resevior the pressure decreases. therefore when an oil field begins to decline in production there is no way to reverse the process because the resevoir lacks the pressure to bring anymore than 1 million barrels a day to the surface. than a year later there only enough pressure to bring 800,000 a day and every year it decrease further
rastaman24211 10 months ago
@raiki15 oil fields are not like faucets that we can control the flow of which the oil comes to the surface until they run dry. in fact a good prtion of the oil in a resevoir never comes to the suface because at some point there is not enough pressure underground to bring anymore oil to the surface. that is why oil production when graphed follows a bell curve that mirrors oil finds. roughly 40 years after an oil field is found its production will begin to decline
rastaman24211 10 months ago
we go extreme solar power. i say extreme because we might cover the surface area on the sun with solar panels. the only problem is we must act now. what's wrong with that concept??
MidnightRedemption 11 months ago
@MidnightRedemption keeping them in a high planetary orbit -- the problem is effeciently gettin the energy to the surface -- 500 mile + drop cords into orbit just do not work. It might be doable with our current technology -- though I dont know how people will react to a giant microwave beam from space.
UberLogic 10 months ago
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903harman 10 months ago
I don't understand peak oil, why would oil production go down? Won't it go up with more demand?
St8Solja 11 months ago
@St8Solja yes, it would go up with more demand. But remember, oil is a finite resource and like everything that is finite, one day, it disappears. I don't know if you were referring to the growth of population but more people = less oil for everyone and quite some people already said that we have already or are about to reach peak oil. So, if the oil prices rise, along with this economic crise, we are...how can I say this...Screwed. We are in a do or die situation. We have to change immediatly.
JOBERALA 11 months ago
@St8Solja oil production would go up even though there will be increasing demand because the decrease in available supply will be greater than the increasing demand
Jonnybarbs 10 months ago
@St8Solja oil production will go down because it is a limited resource. there is only so much oil below the earth's surface. peak oil will occur when we reach that limit.
MrRobot 10 months ago
We have to debate which is the BEST source of clean energy.
My guess (for FF's replacement) is either 50,000 sq miles of solar PV (which would HAVE to be mined, robotically made, distributed AND installed by same giant oil company like business in order to reduce costs by MANY factors). Likewise for battery storage.
Or
LFTR, the safest longest lasting (thorium and spent fuel) fission...
All other RE (to date) simply can not replace this great oil economy, Wind energy, well, barely..
fireofenergy 11 months ago
peak oil was reached in 2005
Antranik01 11 months ago
@Antranik01 How do you know this?
St8Solja 11 months ago
It's time for the venus project!
chrisplus23 11 months ago
Peak Oil is a fact. You can only argue over the 'when' but even the optomistic amongst you will be explaining to your grandkids why you did nothing about it unless you take it seriously now. Peak oil, peak gas, peak coal, peak water. They are all issues that you, your kids and your grandkids will deal with, and may well die because of.
If you are interested in this I would also view "A cubic mile of oil" and "The most important video you will ever see"
Huttate1 1 year ago
Hello,
First of all, realy good job with the video. A really good primer for the complex topic of Peak Oil.
Secondly, I am quite interested in your thesis and its subject. I am studying similar things here and I'm also thinking about a thesis along the same lines, but more towards news and online news. Incidentally - and what brought me here - was the fact that I am currently taking Dynamic Visualization Design and I picked the topic of peak oil to visualize. Can I view you thesis anywhere?
morlalaith 1 year ago
It's funny how $147 per barrel oil didn't raise conventional oil production as much as high oil spikes used to. It's downright scary that Saudi Arabia is moving future oil production growth to expensive offshore production.....
MrEnergyCzar 1 year ago 24
Peak oil already will destroy 5 billion of the world's population by simple mathematics and the law of thermodynamics. All the other talk of "the economy" is moot. The economy=energy. Not money, gold, nor products, etc. Without sufficient hydrocarbon energy our planet must go back to the amount of sunlight that humans can capture per year to support our species. What is really developed that can realistically do that at this time?
jjstoney1 1 year ago
We will never know when peak oil has arrived, because OPEC are cheating lying bastards. Happy New Year!
b3gunkid90 1 year ago
There are now only about 3 countries that can increase their oil production and they are in the Middle East. The next year should be interesting once the global economy picks up again.....
MrEnergyCzar 1 year ago
Agreed, usual economics suggest huge increase in price means basically people buy less, however it's about time OPEC nations started giving real estimates on reserves not false ones to keep exports at a maximum. We need to tackle this properly and as a world together we are human and we will always find a way when we have to, now is the time.
pato210994 1 year ago
The problem with the peak oil doomsday scenario is the same oversight Malthus made -- he didn't recognize that increased prices stimulate innovation and alternatives.
mindprism 1 year ago
NOBODY gets rich from producing more kids and then getting a welfare check for it. Where the fuck do you think the welfare check goes? To feed the kids!
Saying otherwise HURTS the cause to fight overpopulation and HURTS the cause of outlawing reproduction by stupid selfish people - whether rich OR poor.
deskset24 1 year ago
there are too much humans on this planet!!! maybe some extermination?? step right up...
plavins1 1 year ago
@plavins1 Population will always grow. People will not stop fucking. We can reduce the growth rate however, by having a punishment for all those fucking idiot teenagers who can't fuck with protections. All those pregnant teens having babies when they can't even taking care of themselves. The government needs to stop the welfare for those teen mom because it encourages them to have kids just to get the welfare to spend on themselves.
NoobSoldier2006 1 year ago
@plavins1 Starting with you.
safuker 1 year ago
@moreslaw
IF there will be a future, and I'm serious about this, and IF people will remember the details of our society, then they will be shocked about EVERYTHING that those people I see everyday in front of me did. EVERYTHING!
Now don't you believe that it will be for them less disgusting than for someone seeing the only love being skullfucked with a shit covered, barbed wire by a Nazi rapist.
trakkaton 1 year ago
Hi there, I am actually for peak oil happening in my lifetime (maybe next 1-10 years) and was wondering what are the arguments against peak oil? I just think its important to have a balanced argument. Ive looked into the Alberta tar sands and think its ridiculous to get oil from that source (look into their process!).
FishyMoe 1 year ago
To replace all the fossil oil consumed today would need all the available agricultural land to grow the hemp seed oil. So ok if you dont want to eat.
As for the oil never running out, that is correct it will just get more and more costly as production falls so people will stop using it hence there will be some left.
MrPetertclarke 1 year ago
@oddjobsunl Only if you dont want to eat, there isnt enough agricultural land on earth to produce enough hemp oil to replace fossil oil.
MrPetertclarke 1 year ago
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good video
if you want to know the true scale of this crisis see this
youtube.com/watch?v=ZEYUxOGPm-0
vengance89 1 year ago
all those things could be made with hemp seed oil. renewable every season and non toxic to boot
oddjobsunl 1 year ago
Demand reduction (destruction) will only delay the inevitable.
On the most fundamental level the global economy is literally burning up the underpinning value that supports the systems. Stock values will crash again.
It is a little like using a large hammer and knocking big holes in the foundation of your house every day. How long will it stand?
Burn more oil, coal, and natural gas every day, eventually it is converted to CO2
Knossos22 1 year ago
Oil will never run out, you have nothing to worry about!
bolshevikML 1 year ago
@bolshevikML you are right about the fact that oil will never run out because as the production falls the price will go up and less will get used. So it will never run out we will just stop using it. You can choose not to worry about this but I would encourage you to look around yourself and work out how you are going to do most things you do now without oil.
MrPetertclarke 1 year ago
There is no such thing a "sustainable" growth this is an economic nonsense.
Depend of how you look at it but PO isn't the problem, rather is is asolution to the industrial civilization problem!
Anyway, there are two solution you reduce
energy consuption OR you reduce population... that'll be a real quick solution.
GeoffreyRahl 1 year ago
If we force down the demand for oil, the price would drop and we'd increase consumption of the product we're addicted to...... Growth in economies will eventually run into nature's limits and a new steady state model will have to take over. We'll probably turn coal into liquids out of desparation and accept a polluted world so we don't have to change the model will live in....
MrEnergyCzar 1 year ago
Hopefully I'll be dead by then.
Somaaganis 1 year ago
@Somaaganis only if your well over 80
MrPetertclarke 1 year ago
Very well explained...this should be required in all grade schools....
MrEnergyCzar 1 year ago
Great warning to what we all already knew
Will we make 2050?
Global warming,
Haiti,
Pakistan,
China,
Nukes,
Oil?
I doubt it.!!!!
donpedrossy 1 year ago
fuel in tractors remember that. No tractors big big problem no tank no problem. Don't need tank to keep starving neibour at bay.
navh2000 1 year ago
Great work.
dhymers 1 year ago
Isn't it AMAZING what a chemical engineer can create with petroleum? I'm always impressed by its non-fuel uses! :D
Anyway, this is a sci-fi premise. Free markets don't go to war. They pace themselves and make innovations.
We haven't been using oil long enough given planetary scale. It'd take thousands of years. Until then there are plenty of reserves. Most are off limits due to permits. Others, because the drill tech isn't there yet. You don't think we had oil rig tech from the 1800s did you?
TheTrueHolyDarkness 1 year ago
Sand oil. We are squeezing oil out of sand. Same as squeezing that LAST bit of water out of a rag, when you are dying of thirst.
snogger64 1 year ago
Those who don't believe in peak oil say that we will never run out of oil. In a way that is true, we will never be able to extract all the oil out of the earth. However the reason for that is that it would take more energy to extract all the oil out of the earth than we would get from it.
Peak oil is basically the point where we have hit the peak of our ability to produce oil. No matter how much oil the earth may have, if we cannot get to it we cannot produce any energy.
ekimthegib 1 year ago 5
:28 was kind of misleading. It's not about running out of oil (there is plenty). It's about the easy oil being extracted already and the difficult oil costing too much than we can gain from it (i.e. putting more energy than we get out). But, yes it is a reality. The movie 'Collapse' was very interesting.
gotitans999 1 year ago
@jaguarclaw Yeah, oil companies lie about how much oil they have. They say they have more than they do. If they were to tell the truth, people would start to switch over to wind, solar, etc. and stop buying gasoline.
It's true that oil will be renewed, but that will be in millions of years. If mother earth is lucky, humans will have died out by then.
Angelheart1700 1 year ago
@Angelheart1700 There are issues with Solar that holds it back. The issue of keeping the panels CLEAN ironically. Bugs are drawn to them like moths to a flame, and birds poop on them.
Not to mention how susceptible they are to cloud cover. Only nukes have proven to be sustainable in a manner that will realistically be supported by the market.
Most else is forced and doomed to fail. They've been advocating solar and wind since the 70s. Its not accepted because it doesn't work.
TheTrueHolyDarkness 1 year ago
@TheTrueHolyDarkness "the United States will surpass Germany to be the largest market for solar power in the world by 2011, according to a report by JP Morgan,"
I'd love to see a report that says PO isn't going to be a problem. Contradicting the Lloyds 360 risk assessment, the military's Joint Operating Env. report and every article published by ASPO. No, please tell me its going to be ok. Please!
$35bn in subsidies for oil companies, is that the free market too ? get a clue.
dhymers 1 year ago
the more people the more demand for oil wich means it will be going down faster and faster as the population keeps growing
boxingisbest 1 year ago
What a big bullshit!
moniequa 1 year ago
@moniequa sadly not
MrPetertclarke 1 year ago
>>"sustainable healthy future"
with about half the current number of humans maximum
walter0bz 1 year ago
@walter0bz Nuclear power is the only viable substitute for petrol that keeps that from happening. I agree. Solar and Wind power are all well and good, but solar panels and wind turbines aren't sustainable, they still have to be manufactured with finite materials. We need to explore space IMHO for more abundant fuels.
tonytoy1776 1 year ago
@tonytoy1776
current generation nuclear reactors take between 5 and 10 years to build excluding approval and legal battles for and against, Uranium extraction is declining globally. decommissioning nuclear reactors takes 5 - 10 years and a lot of effort. while it is a powerful source of energy nuclear isnt viable by itself.
edgemanAu 1 year ago
so much lies in 1 vid
dunno where to start but there's no use in explaining i guess 'cause no one likes to listen to the truth
AlexNOSAM 1 year ago
@AlexNOSAM Wow, like people are going to listen to someone who doesn't use proper grammar or any punctuation.
ogwazzo 1 year ago
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Oil is not a limited resource!
Oil is created deep in the earth by totally natural processes of pressure and heat working on chemical elements creating hydrocarbons, methane and oil.
The fossil fuel theory is totally Bunk and along with it the idea of peak oil.
It is used to create the artificial idea of scarcity to keep price high.
Please research 'endless oil' - Russian geologists drill deep to get oil from reserves that replenish themselves.
pixelspring 1 year ago
@jaguarclaw If you were considering rebutting by citing wind and hydro power as non-sun forms of energy, these also ultimately get their energy from the sun. Evaporation is caused by the sun which fuels hydro power. Wind is also caused by uneven heating of the atmosphere, so these are also basically "solar power." These forms have very low return rates for energy put in vs energy out, so none of this will ever come close to the energy we have from oil. It is pure stupidity to waste it all.
freethoughtfanatic 1 year ago
@jaguarclaw Oil is a very highly concentrated form of solar energy, and if we consume it all like selfish gluttons, we will have run out of the sole reason that our global population grew so large. All energy for our planet ultimately comes form the sun. Oil and coal is just stacked solar power, so when we run out, we will have to rely simply on current solar, which isn't packed with much energy. This is simple physics. If we use up all of the energy now, there will be none left for the future.
freethoughtfanatic 1 year ago
@freethoughtfanatic Um.
Free market ensure that we pace ourselves. Its the same reason why, after countless millennium, we still haven't run out of trees or iron.
Also, I think you are ignoring the fact that somewhere, a new drop of oil is being completed right about....now.
Multiply that drop by planetary scale, and that's a lot of newly completed oil from things that died precisely a million years ago as of 2010.
~Out~
TheTrueHolyDarkness 1 year ago
kinda wishing the zombies would get here before that :(
theliberator1 1 year ago
@jaguarclaw The way you think is outdated.
RouteMask 1 year ago
@jaguarclaw Yeh right! 1000 years my arse.
sorova 1 year ago
this is bullshit
autistipton 1 year ago
some people believe that oil is infinite in supply while maintaining that the rapture is imminent. how queer.
vengencefrom1979 1 year ago
When we do start to run low, I saw we find a new fuel source (obviously), and all the left over oil we save to make plastic, and gasoline for old cars in the distant future (IE: 2110, a WWII memorial parade, with Sherman tanks, and a Willies jeep. {sure you could use batteries, or corn oil, but it's just not the same as a noisy, smelly, chocking fume emitting gasoline heavy tank engine})
ostapslobodian 1 year ago
Nice little animation. Very well done :)
unloads 1 year ago
I made a film to help people prepare for peak oil. It'scalled, "Preparing for Peak Oil"....
MrEnergyCzar 1 year ago
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"Peak Oil" is a myth. I believe its communist propaganda.
SuddenCatharsis 1 year ago
You are a fucking idiot.
ALP5050 1 year ago
@SuddenCatharsis , I think it is a capitalist american propaganda. Just like Y2k and maybe the so called global warming.
khoto74 1 year ago
@SuddenCatharsis you should stop 'believing' things and start looking at the facts. It doesnt matter what you believe it the facts that tell us what will happen. half the oil is gone and that was the easy half the rest is expensive to get and in a lot of cases will take more energy to get than we will get back from it. I hope you are old or else you are going to hate most of the rest of your life.
MrPetertclarke 1 year ago
to all the nay-sayers: Just consider the consequence of inaction... VS doing something to curb our exponential consumption of somthing we KNOW is a limited resource. Doing nothing and continuing on this path has major risks. Making changes gives us the opportunity to go on with a degree of assurance that we will not be forwarding the plot to our own demise.
brownlog86 1 year ago
reignofhope 1 year ago
The global peak of discover happened in 1964. The trend is clear. Over time fewer and smaller deposits are found. All the easy stuff has been found. Now comes the hard lifting. Production started at zero and to zero it will return. At the half way point, production rates start to decrease. We're very close to the half way point. There are very few mysteries about how much and where the oil is. What remains to be discovered is tiny compared to what's already found.
durangokid81301 1 year ago 3
1. New fields & alternative oil (oil sands & such) aren't sufficient to keep up with burgeoning demand in Asia & India. Prices will go up.
2. Even if Lindsay is correct, the market is manipulated & prices will go up.
3. If AGW becomes policy prices will go up.
4. The Abiotic theory is debunked. Google it.
5. Renewables won't keep up.
PRICES WILL GO UP & Our form of Gov. is incapable of being pro-active.
War, Chaos, shortages & turmoil is certain but when? I'm moving off-grid to a farm.
mjs48130 1 year ago 3
no 2 ways about it, without energy to dig up we're back to capturing what falls from the sky via Land.
walter0bz 1 year ago
Choosing a happy sustainable future is not going to happen.
csoki631 1 year ago
The fact is: we can't all use the bathroom at the same time. Too many people growing too fast consuming too much with no regard for the future = a diet. The planet will cut the fat. Exponential growth forever on limited space is physically impossible.
AuguryBot 1 year ago 11
@AuguryBot Population will always grow. People will not stop fucking. We can reduce the growth rate however, by having a punishment for all those fucking idiot teenagers who can't fuck with protections. All those pregnant teens having babies when they can't even taking care of themselves. The government needs to stop the welfare for those teen mom because it encourages them to have kids just to get the welfare to spend on themselves.
NoobSoldier2006 1 year ago
Does that mean I have to sell my Hummer?
Puzzoozoo 2 years ago
@Puzzoozoo you'll be lucky if anyone wants to buy it
MrPetertclarke 1 year ago
Peak oil would indeed be a tragedy of epic proportions, however I was hoping for at least a hint of hard scientific proof establishing a ceiling to global supplies.
How on earth could anyone merely GUESS that we've reached "peak oil"? IMHO, we've only scratched the surface of VAST pockets of natural resources.
OH!! Almost forgot! AGW is nothing but a HOAX to control us! Never trust the government people!
It would behoove us all to live in a sustainable manner, ON OUR OWN! INDEPENDENTLY!
JMehrman 2 years ago
peak oil is bs
it may peak but there is lots under ground still
co2 comes after global warming not the other way around
HaarlemmerHewe 2 years ago
All irrelevent, fusion energy will carry us into the next phase. Once we fully control the energy of the atom, we wont run out of energy for a very long time. We still need oil for our other products, but with recycling, reducing and reusing those objects, then we probably can last for a very long time.
There are a lot of dumb green movement people, not all biofuel are good. Solar and wind wont save the day. Nuclear energy is our only chance.
trollsofalabama 2 years ago
@trollsofalabama Fusion's most optimistic estimates for a grid connected reactor is 30-40 years.
Peak oil is anywhere between 5-15 years.
Theres some bridging of gaps to be done.
Also I agree, there ARE a lot of dumb green movement people that don't think the whole thing out. Having said that, I am a big proponent of reduced energy living, as well as sustainable agriculture supported by local permaculture.
unloads 1 year ago
@trollsofalabama Interesting, I first heard about fusion energy nearly 50 yrs ago and at that time scientists were saying it would be 50 yrs before we had a working reactor producing power. They still are saying 40 - 50 yrs so don't hold your breath.
MrPetertclarke 1 year ago
It is time to prepare and STOP believing government will SAVE us!!!, time to be self sustainable, that is the only way, and only those who understand WILL survive!, I am also positive with kpsvw412 that peak oil is MUCH closer than this video suggests or many people day dream of...
springislanddancer 2 years ago
By the way, I am with Kpsvw412 oil peak is SO MUCH MORE NEAR than the video suggests or many day dream is...
springislanddancer 2 years ago
It is time to STOP believing the government is going to SAVE us!!! For those who are so stupid no worries, we do not need/ want you to survive!. I believe we others, who have our brain & knowledge in place WE are starting to prepare, being self sustainable, planting our own food etc. THOSE are who count!, those will make the future of the strong who survived.
springislanddancer 2 years ago
The greenpeace solution to the problem seems to me to be FREEZE PROGRESS. "Fewer cars on the road..." they say. Let me get this straight: we conserve oil, meanwhile world population goes up + fewer cars on the road, all adds up to: everybody sits on their ass.
SCREW THAT
Scientists right now are developing Nuclear Fusion which beats the pants off solar and wind.NASA is going back to the moon, eventually we will mine H3 up their for clean Fusion fuel. But until then we need oil to run our cars.
URProductions 2 years ago
@URProductions Fusion is 30-50 years away. Heck, it was 30-50 years away in the 1950's.
How does fewer cars on the road mean people sitting on their asses? I'd say the reverse is true. You'd have to explain that bit of your argument to me.
unloads 1 year ago
KilonBerlin does not know what he/she is talking about. If they read up, they would realise that the increasing world demand for oil practically wipes out the recent 'large' discoveries and only shifts the peak by perhaps a year or two at most. The next twenty years will be fascinating times.
kpsvw412 2 years ago 3
If you force down the demand for oil, wouldn't that solve the crisis even though it would lead to reduced consumption?
As reducing demand in relation to oil production we would keep the world stable.
I'm sure there are some huge basic flaws in my argument, would you care explain it to me? thank you
nowaywtf 2 years ago
Reducing our consumption of oil is the goal. However as you can see from the video we rely on it heavily. All the fuel for cars, transportation of goods, airplane fuel, fertilizers for the food we grow etc. Changing all of this is not going to be easy.
decyphersmc 2 years ago
First of all, I would like to point out that global warming is not real and was created by scientists at East Anglia for the UN to pass cap and trade.
Second, no amount of alternative energy: wind, solar, tidal, ethanol, can even come close to the amount of energy produced from oil.
Thirdly, our current system is way too big and complicated to overhaul and make "green", especially over a short period of only 30 years.
Conclusion: We are fucked. Prepare for the collapse, now.
michaelencarnacion 2 years ago
@michaelencarnacion What are you talking about saying that Global warming was invented by scientists in East Anglia?
We have been learning about and discussing global warming since the late 1970's.
I still come to the same conclusion as you. We are all doomed. And its all because of greed!
jaysteinbourg 2 years ago
i agree mate, Greed! You've hit the nail on the head. I am rich because you are poor or vise verse. IT will be mankind's downfall. One way or another
petepet98 2 years ago
@jaysteinbourg are you for real !! The climate has been changing for millions of years
buzzzIips 2 years ago
@nowaywtf Theres no magical way to force demand to decrease without having alternatives in place. Which I don't trust the structure we have now to make a smooth transition.
CFrostyTheSnowman 1 year ago
@nowaywtf Demand reduction (destruction) will only delay the inevitable.
On the most fundamental level the global economy is literally burning up the underpinning value that supports the systems. Stock values will crash again.
It is a little like using a large hammer and knocking big holes in the foundation of your house every day. How long will it stand?
Burn more oil, coal, and natural gas every day, eventually it is converted to CO2
Knossos22 1 year ago
@nowaywtf
You CAN make it through peak oil. Efficiency, vegetarianism, HPVs, localized economies, organic food, permaculture, getting rid of the money system, ending the economic wars, ending the militaristic wars, getting rid of unproductive jobs, end of rich people, sharing the power, innovation, progress, learning, reorientation, hemp, free energy research, alternative energy, conservation, information, consciousness, stop of all brainwashing industries, IT COULD BE DONE BUT NO ONE WANTS TO.