Peak Oil & Climate Change Conference: Path to Sustainability

[falcon02012]

ok this video telling me price of oil moving up because peak oil.

know can you tell me why price of corn,Oats ,Rice ,Soybean ,gold,Copper and Aluminum

going uppppppp

as matter of fact the price of everything going up except the price of the Dollar going down

[newculture]

Yes, money and energy are one in the same thing.

Saying that energy is becoming more expensive is the same as saying that money is losing value.

I would like to be able to say that it is a very clean and simple relationship between oil prices and food/commodity prices, but it appears to be a bit more complex.

For food, keep in mind that it can substitute for oil, and so as oil price rises, so will food (grains in particular).

[giffe00]

So I read the first review about your conference by Kelpie Wilson.... "For those who expect an alternative fuel or technology to replace oil, the conference held out no hope."

I really feel sorry for you Aaron. You've read too much from the "dark" side. Why didn't you invite some people that think we do have a future?

[newculture]

There is little hope that "alternative fuel" or "technology" will replace oil. It is mathematically, and geologically, practically impossible.

That certainly doesn't mean the future is bleak. We did just fine without oil for thousands of years, and we will again.

You'll be able to watch all the videos online. The schedule is to publish one per week, so that you can see first hand all of the talks at the conference.

[giffe00]

Humm? Bush says 800 billion barrels of shale. What about that math?

[newculture]

Yes, we heard one of the oil geologists on the shale/rock project at the Denver ASPO conference.

He gave a good talk, and at the end, everyone understood why shale/rock "oil" was probably never going to happen.

The amount of energy required to extract this "undercooked" petroleum is probably more energy than would be extracted.

There may be some large amount of hydrocarbons there, but it is of no use if it can't be extracted for a net energy profit.

Thanks for the good question.

[johndarbauj]

Peak oil, food shortages are euphemisms for peak global population.

Buckle up people!!!

[giffe00]

Is this a conference on society or peak oil? You should call your conference on "US is going to fail." Validity would to also have invited major companies with solutions to peak oil. Great companies like Honda to speak about hydrogen fuel cell powered cars, GM and the Volt, Solvay's new ethylene plant to make plastic out of biomass, Dynamotive Energy Systems bio oil, T. Boone Pickens $6 billion investment in wind power, GE, or Ocean Power Technologies wave power electric machines.

[newculture]

The conference covers a broad range of topics. Peak oil and gasoline prices command the most focus, with climate change and sustainability integrated within. Check out the conference web site for much more information.

On hydrogen, keep in mind that it is a way to store energy, NOT a way to create energy. Current battery technology is cheaper, available, and does the exact same job.

[giffe00]

newculture, Your conference is bias. I see the list of writers, special interest groups and some politicians. Mostly all have opinions of "Alternatives cannot be done" mentality.

We don't know for sure how all this will play out.

You should invite BP, Shell, Exxon or the companies I mention in earlier post. So, are you bias or what?

[newculture]

Everyone is invited to attend. Other than the about a handful of featured presenters, all the rest are volunteers who contacted us.

Steve Crower, Tim Radbourne, Tim Hudson, John Richter and many of the other speakers have very high hopes for technology interventions. I believe that Dr. Goodstein is in the same boat. The main focus on Saturday is about this type of solution.

In order to balance the conference, Sunday explores sustainability and the low-energy future scenario.

[giffe00]

I'm sure it will be interesting.

[PeakOilAwareness]

Thank you for putting this together. We'll see you at the conference.

[newculture]

My pleasure! See you there!

[davincij15]

It's the dollar. Oil has not peaked yet, this is a scape goat for the Federal Reserves money printing. The Fed needs to let the banks go and raise interest rates and gas prices and food prices will go down.

Ah well, it will never happen so I am taking percations just in case they print to much.

$600 Trillion Derivitives

$53 Trillion Obligations

$9.5 Trillion Gov Debt

(See Weimar Germany 1923 when it had more debts than it could pay)

[firethefed]

what he is not mentioning is that since bush invaded iraq .. bush is dragging his feet getting the refineries up and running.. so he and his buddies get rich of low supply and high demand.. search petrodollar on youtube if you want to learn more about this. we also went into iraq not for WMD's .. it was because Saddam started selling his oil in euros in nov. 2000 .. If countries dont need the dollar to buy oil .. the dollar is doomed.. thats why we kill people to save the US dollar. not good!

[SolitonPL]

food , oil, mortage payments ! Learn about inflation first! Then blame peak oil! Bankers are happy that ppl still don't get it that this is mostly inflationary phenomena. In Europe price increase isn't so strong.

[newculture]

This was a live broadcast on a local TV station in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

I was only able to get a very low quality VHS recording, which, you can see, doesn't look all that good. I can see that the audio track also diverges from the video track, and if I can figure out how to do it, I'll fix that and re-upload.

I hope to get a DVD copy of the show, but that may take a while.

The entire show was 60 minutes, and there was much more about gasoline prices, food prices, peak oil, etc.