The Scale Of the Peak Oil Catastrophe

Just how big a problem do we have?

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[MrEnergyCzar]

Technology isn't a source of energy, just a faster more efficient way to use it up. The more efficient a society is, the more energy it ultimately uses. It's Jevons paradox...

[dehountinge]

Oil is not over, the time of cheap oil is.

[moonsugar1]

@claudelebel55 Thats Energy Effcientcy. He means in the sense that we get to work on time, that everything continues to grow and expand to become more efficient, EG we use cars to get places quicker etc, but I can see how the wording of that comment would make you say that, i did initially as well...

[claudelebel55]

@MrEnergyCzar The more efficient a society is, the more energy it ultimately uses ? This sounds like the opposite of efficiency to me. Efficiency means doing the same amount of work with less energy.

[InODependanceSyndrom]

7.5out of 8billion people will die if the world collapses. Because we will all be broke, no other greater power to save another, just a lost economy, and a losing battle against gravity.

[InODependanceSyndrom]

could simply be out of reach to get which seems more and more likely that this is developing to be true as we search but find very little.

When peak oil happens, we will go back to 600AD as their will be no running economys, and almost 8billion people to save themselves. Its not like they ever can.

[InODependanceSyndrom]

@vintagegeisha

In early 2000s we had 14massive oil fields. No we have about 1 large oil fields (oil reserves) + possible additional oil fields on the northpole and who knows elsewhere.

All 14great oil fields mostly still exist, but theyre not classified as great as theyre getting exempted.

Peak oil has nothing to do with the oil reserve. It means that mankind cant dig deep enough, or simply find extra oil fields for further oil drilling. So half of all the oil storages planet earth may host

[Standuble]

@vintagegeisha Oil doesn't need to run out, it either needs to become too difficult to extract or too expensive to extract. Production from oil wells decline because the cheap and easy stuff is used up and the hard and expensive oil is left over. Humanity has a tendency to chose the easier or cheaper options first and then be stuck with the difficulties after its grown fat.

I would suggest searching EROEI, a field which is too inefficient becomes irrelevant to businesses.

[vintagegeisha]

Although not intentionally a scare campaign, peak oil has ultimately turned into this. There are numerous new energy sources, including both algae, bacteria, and bugs which produce oil and diesel. Oil IS NOT running out. In addition, we have more in reserves than has ever been consumed... SO we ARE NOT running out of oil. But what about global warming? This is true. What about the cost of new energy infrastructure? This is also true.

[activedentalfloss]

@activedentalfloss Interesting. I was just curious about you're views, as the whole peak oil/ limits to growth topic throws up some vastly polorised opinions. I don't really have such a rosy view of the next 10 years and beyond, foreign policies and economic happenings appear to correlate with the forecasts, but I'm not going into a point by point rebuttal of your beliefs as that won't mean anything. All I'll say is good luck, and keep flossing. You'll regret it if you don't.

[MrEnergyCzar]

Peak Oil is close to being known to the masses.....