Richard Heinberg Lecture Peak Oil Pt 4

Richard Heinberg, the Senior Fellow-in-Residence of the Post Carbon Institute is widely regarded as one of the worlds foremost Peak Oil educators.

Heinberg was in Edmonton on Feb. 11th, 2010 as part of the City of Edmonton's 'The Way We Green' Distinguished Speaker Series. The Way We Green is Edmontons environmental strategic plan -- a blueprint for being the nation's leader in setting the highest standards of environmental preservation and sustainability.

Heinberg spoke on the subject of Peak Oil and Economic Transition, asking how much Oil did you use today? Are We Running Out? What does this mean for the things we do, the food we eat, the places we go? Heinberg challenged the audience to think the unthinkable, exposing the tenuousness of our current way of life while offering a vision for a truly sustainable future

The University of Albertas Environmental Research and Studies Centre was host to Richard Heinberg later in the evening at the Myer Horowtiz Theatre for a repeat lecture and continued on societys future relationship with energy.

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[numbnuts234567]

Clearly the world needs a centralized 'one world government' in which the politicians can make the tough decisions without worrying about elections. Yes?

[rvbarnesboy]

I love Richard and his message to the species. I want to take amoment to plug that mysterious and largely suppressed energy source:  ground-source heating, i.e., geothermal.....it works. I have it in my house. I love it. You're 80% off the grid and only need the AC to run the exchange unit. This is great tech and should be used in new construction in cold climates. that's all I wanted to say.

[viragemasta]

@LiquidRio : it takes more than 1 gallon of fossil fuel to produce 1 gallon of biofuel.

[symmetry08]

bio fuel is not really effiecent source.

[AlienEntity1]

@LiquidRio The real test of biofuels is the EROEI ratios. So far, there's no indication that we'll even come close to matching oil with plant-based sources.

Most likely we'll end up with far less energy available than we have from fossil fuels - which is why we'll have to 'power down' as Richard says.

[LiquidRio]

Hemp is the ideal substitute for crude oil, and is infinitely renewable.Make methanol from it, job done