Peak Oil - How Will You Ride the Slide?

We've already burned through almost half the world's supply of oil. How will we ride out the slide down the other side of Hubbert's Curve? For more information, go to: http://thefuelfilm.com/ , http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse , and
www.oilnews.synthasite.com

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[BackToBiscuits]

If you read some of the original books on peak oil, the theory has debunked its self as it implies that energy production would never surpass the total output of the 1955-1960 period has Hubbert predicted.

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[Oilyboyd]

@BackToBiscuits Which "original books"? Hubbert based his 1956 prediction on the idea that the peak of discovery of large oil fields would precede peak extraction by about forty years, and that prediction proved true in the Lower 48 US states, where it's been downhill ever since the early 70s. Global discoveries peaked in the mid 60s, and the rate of extraction worldwide appears to have stalled around 2006. It's not a theory, and it hasn't been debunked. The facts speak for themselves.

[MsPeakOil]

This video should be shown to every grade school kid each year....

[Keinlicht]

@Standuble Truly we had all we could have needed to create a just, sustainable society which looks towards science and human betterment. The temples of the ancients would be but miniature sets for the grandeur an enlightened age could have brought us at this time..

But instead we built endless miles of suburbs, strengthened the institutions which have led before to so much pain and bloodshed. We squandered our gift and filled the skies with the stain of our indifference, now we will suffer.

[seanincali1]

this is retarded music

[Standuble]

@cyberlord64 Hydrogen is essentially only a battery. It can be used in nuclear fusion to withdraw the energy stored within however we can't get it to work and we're running out of time. Alternatively it would need to be charged up with sufficient energy from other sources. t's not a power source on its own.

[cyberlord64]

@antred11 this has been my question for the past decade. When i was a kid in school back in the 1990 the teachers were telling us that by the end of the year 2000 there would be flying cars, space bases etc etc. its been 12 years after that and the only thing that people seem to care about technologicly-wise is when the next iphone or some new computer will be released. oh yeah that is a good idea. like diving deeper into the oblivion of a screen will solve anyones problems.

[cyberlord64]

@Standuble hydrogen does the trick

[antred11]

@wks1978 I agree that a smaller population would be nice, but I would definitely not be happy this this happen in the next 18 years, because the only way it could happen is billions dying very unpleasant deaths, to put it mildly. :-\

[Standuble]

@antred11 @antred11 Yeah I've read quite a lot regarding what could have been, it's such a shame. Part of me still wonders whether it will all still be possible though I fear that I'm bordering on blind faith rather than atheism. May end up praying to be visited by aliens or for humanity to be gifted with a dozen super geniuses or something :)

If they were still able to do their one-way trip missions to Mars/Moon/asteroids etc. before PO hits I would volunteer. Rather die dreaming.

[antred11]

@Standuble off many times over. Problem is, we never even started to build the basic infra structure (a minor orbital settlement at first, then mining colonies on the moon / in the asteroid belt, then larger habitats). Instead we're still throwing money and resources out the window bailing out banks and failed industries or fighting pointless wars. I really hope we can still turn things around, but it's really hard to be optimistic about things. :-(

[antred11]

@Standuble Yep. Have you read about some of the stuff NASA was considering in the 70s? Possible space habitat designs like O'Neill cylinders, Bernal spheres, stanford toruses and such like? And how O'Neill envisioned building huge orbital solar power collectors to solve all our energy needs? Amazing stuff. While his projections seemed wildly optimistic, all of it certainly sounds doable. It would have been quite expensive and taken a lot of determination, but it would have payed ...

[Standuble]

@antred11 Thats my concern too, after the oil and the good coal peak we'll end up living in a neo-17th century slum or worse with no future, when we could have been learning the universe's secrets in space. Industrial civilization was like a one off loan of money, which rather than invest in something greater we squandered. "Wasted potential and opportunity" doesn't begin to cover it.

Is there any way to get enough energy to make escape velocity and space manufacturing without oil?

[antred11]

@Standuble Couldn't agree more, especially with your reference to space exploration. It infuriates me to no end that mankind seems to have no interest in getting into space at all. We're running out of time but we just don't seem to care.