Archive for the 'OPEC' Category

Throwing our energy at impossible dreams…

December 16th, 2009 | Category: Health, Food & agriculture, Deep water oil, Hydro, Liquid natural gas, Ocean energy, Methane hydrates, Conventional oil, Condensates & NG liquids, Geopolitics & resource wars, Wind, Media & persuasion, Exploration, Community, Arctic oil, Ocean thermal, Other resource depletion, Military, Education, New currencies, Political movements, Water, Waste, OPEC, Wave, Petrodollars & US dollar, Overshoot, Photovoltaic, Population, Solar thermal, Shale oil, Tidal, Solar, Human Ecology & Behaviour, Oil, Biomass, Energy Companies, Coal, Technology, Politics, Energy Policy, Climate, Biofuels, Hydrogen & Fuel Cells, Transport, Economics, Housing & Urban Design, Heavy Oil, Tar Sands, Electricity, Renewable energy, Energy demand, Energy infrastructure, Nuclear, Geothermal, Energy literacy, Privatisation & globalisation, Consumerism, Natural gas, Industry, Solutions, Global, Environment & sustainablity, News - General

"as mankind proceeded to get bigger and bigger we silently crossed a threshold"

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Peak Oil: The Eventual End of the Oil Age

November 29th, 2009 | Category: Wind, Geopolitics & resource wars, Exploration, Arctic oil, Solar, Energy infrastructure, Renewable energy, Electricity, Energy demand, Conventional oil, Deep water oil, Latin America, OPEC, Russia & Central Asia, Europe, Asia South and East, Petrodollars & US dollar, Shale oil, Africa, Privatisation & globalisation, Global, Energy Policy, Politics, Oil, Human Ecology & Behaviour, Economics, Transport, Biofuels, Climate, Hydrogen & Fuel Cells, Energy Companies, Technology, North America, Solutions, Environment & sustainablity, Industry, Consumerism, Middle East, Coal, Tar Sands, News - General

We cannot be lulled into a false sense of security: though oil prices have declined from their historic highs, there is little doubt that peak oil is real. I devoted my Master's project to researching peak oil and found strong evidence in support of the theory. Please feel free to circulate this academic document as a primer on peak oil.

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