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Note: This post is based on a portion of my presentations at the recent Association for the Study of Peak Oil conference in Denver . Go to the ASPO web site for the complete slide deck . And thanks to Debbie Cook for inviting me to be on her panel.
As reported by the Des Moines Register , ...
Energy/Transportation
David Strahan - Extreme oil: Scraping the bottom of Earth's barrel
EIGHTY-FIVE million barrels. That's how much oil we consume every day. It's a staggering amount - enough to fill over 5400 Olympic swimming pools - and demand is expected to keep on rising, despite the impending supply ...
Energy/Transportation
This is a guest post by Morgan Downey, author of Oil 101 and of the Scarce Whales blog.
The OECD International Energy Agency (IEA) is the taxpayer-funded energy advisor to the 28 most developed countries. The agency was created in 1974 by large oil consuming nations in response to an oil ...
Energy/Transportation
Japan
Energy Efficiency
When I first started my Phd 4+ years ago, I was fascinated, concerned and rather obsessed with the various details surrounding the limits-to-growth phenomenon, a situation I had been blissfully unaware of up until around 2000. I delved deep into the specifics of peak oil, non-energy input ...
Energy/Transportation
This is the second installment of a guest post by Jean Laherrére on peak gold. The first part can be read here . This time Jean takes a macroscopic perspective on gold mining for the world as whole.
Note : This post contains 33 images amounting to 1.5 Mbytes of data.
World gold production
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Energy/Transportation
Jeff Rubin: Financial crisis or energy shock?
Everyone will tell you that it was virtually free credit conditions that spawned the subprime mortgage phenomenon. And everyone acknowledges that it was the sharp mid-decade run-up in interest rates that burst the bubble and caused the collapse ...
Energy/Transportation
This is the second installment of a guest post by Jean Laherrére on peak gold. The first part can be read here . This time Jean takes a macroscopic perspective on gold mining for the world as whole.
Note : This post contains 33 images amounting to 1.5 Mbytes of data.
World gold production
...
Energy/Transportation
This is a guest post by Brian Wang, known as advancednano on The Oil Drum. He is an MBA and editor of nextbigfuture.com . .
Michael Dittmar recently wrote a series of posts about nuclear energy that was published on The Oil Drum. In the first post of the series , he said that ...
Energy/Transportation
Alternative Energy
Oil Companies Look to the Future in Iraq
BAGHDAD — More than six and a half years after the United States-led invasion here that many believed was about oil, the major oil companies are finally gaining access to Iraq’s petroleum reserves. But they are doing so at far less advantageous terms ...
Energy/Transportation
anz.theoildrum.com - 9 days ago
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In recent editions of their World Energy Outlook,
the IEA has been reducing their forecast for 2030...
total oil supply. But forecasting a decline in OECD consumption is a radical shift. Here at The Oil Drum we see peak oil occuring well before ...
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International Energy Agency calls 'Peak' on OECD Oil Demand
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A Growing Disaster
THE ethanol industry, once the darling of corn growers, environmentalists and the auto industry, has fallen on hard times. Producers spent this year caught between falling ethanol prices and rising corn costs, causing many to go bankrupt. In response, they are pushing the ...
Energy/Transportation
In recent editions of their World Energy Outlook, the IEA has been reducing their forecast for 2030 total oil supply. But forecasting a decline in OECD consumption is a radical shift.
Here at The Oil Drum we see peak oil occuring well before 2030, with production at that point ...
Energy/Transportation
International Energy Agency
OPEC
theoildrum.com - 5 days ago
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theoildrum.com —
Most of us have heard that Dubai World
is asking for a six month delay in paying...
back its debt. The debt was supposedly backed by the Dubai government, so Standard & Poor's considers this a default of the Dubai government . Dubai World ...
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Dubai's Debt Troubles: Beginning of the Next Leg Down?
Below the fold is a short Thanksgiving comment followed by some Campfire discussion questions.
I just got back from visiting family in North Dakota. Lovely time. Lots of pigs, dogs, food and drink. The family in question live very remotely on a farm. A simple insight struck me as the wine ...
Energy/Transportation
Peak oil: the summit that dominates the horizon
These expressions of concern have stoked the fires of the "peak oil" community, which has been warning for some years that global politicians are failing to move fast enough to conserve oil and move to a low-carbon economy. The dissidents ...
Energy/Transportation
When we began this series of tech talks , a drilling rig was anything that punched a hole through the ground, to get at the oil or natural gas underneath. Once a hole is drilled, however, there is often other work that needs to be done on the well, but now the infrastructure that helped when we ...
Energy/Transportation
Below the fold is a short Thanksgiving comment followed by some related Campfire discussion questions.
I just got back from visiting family in North Dakota. Lovely time. Lots of pigs, dogs, food and drink. The friends in question live very remotely on a farm. A possibly simplistic insight ...
Energy/Transportation
Most of us have heard that Dubai World is asking for a six month delay in paying back its debt. The debt was supposedly backed by the Dubai government, so Standard & Poor's considers this a default of the Dubai government .
Dubai World Island, formed of manmade islands. Planned to be ...
Energy/Transportation
Dubai
Oil falls to $76 on Dubai’s money troubles
Benchmark crude prices plunged by 7 percent in early trading, though those declines eased as investors weighed the chances that Dubai's problems would spread to Europe, Asia and the United States.
It was partly the fear of frozen credit markets ...
Energy/Transportation
Dubai
europe.theoildrum.com - 6 days ago
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europe.theoildrum.com —
This is a guest contribution by Dr Walter
Youngquist , best known for GeoDestinies , his classic...
text on global resources and their depletion that was first published in 1997. I had the good fortune to meet Dr Youngquist at the ASPO conference ...
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Unique Times -- and the Future
