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Re: Peak Oil, Population, and the Permanent Portfolio
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:53 pm
by PP67
Just to add a little "fuel" to the fire, ZeroHedge had a good (in my opinion) guest post on the subject of peak oil:
"Efforts are underway to convince the general populace that our energy concerns are a thing of the past and that the new energy discoveries in the Bakken and other shale formations have proven Peak Oil to be a mistaken idea. Some efforts go even further and flatly state that energy independence is right around the corner.
Nothing could be further from the truth...."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-pos ... rous-ideas
I would say "Enjoy" but the content doesn't quite lend itself to that...
Re: Peak Oil, Population, and the Permanent Portfolio
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:26 pm
by MediumTex
PP67 wrote:
I would say "Enjoy" but the content doesn't quite lend itself to that...
I think that the term for what you have posted is "doomer porn."
Re: Peak Oil, Population, and the Permanent Portfolio
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:11 am
by PP67
For however long and however much oil we have left to consume, it really is a remarkable substance with an incredibly high energy density in an extremely convenient portable form which will be very hard to replace in the quantities required and at a comparable cost...
If you want a visual perspective, calculate the diameter of the stream of fuel that pushes your +4,500 lb. car at 75 mph for 1 mile and compare that to say a human hair... (as I always told my kids, life is a word problem)...
Re: Peak Oil, Population, and the Permanent Portfolio
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:59 am
by doodle
The pictures in this story kind of remind me of the bacteria and the bottle example from the video (There is no Tomorrow) that you posted, MT.
http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/pictures ... -heat.html
Re: Peak Oil, Population, and the Permanent Portfolio
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:30 pm
by MachineGhost
What's with all the perverted comments? Is that illustrative of the attitude of Chinese men?
MG
Re: Peak Oil, Population, and the Permanent Portfolio
Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 1:37 pm
by AdamA
MediumTex wrote:
You might take a look at Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael" if you want a more subtle perspective on the topics we are discussing above.
It's an interesting book with some really big ideas in it, among them that the advent of agriculture was actually the beginning of humanity's fall from grace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_%28novel%29
I finally got the chance to read this fantastic book.
Thanks for recommending it. You were not kidding when you said it had some "big ideas" in it.
Re: Peak Oil, Population, and the Permanent Portfolio
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 12:42 pm
by AdamA
The latest on the peak oil debate.
Quick and entertaining read.
http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archi ... il/309294/
Re: Peak Oil, Population, and the Permanent Portfolio
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2021 3:10 pm
by Kriegsspiel
In a Thursday statement, [Shell] said its “oil production peaked in 2019,” and that we can now expect it to decline gradually by 1 or 2% per year. Shell also said its total carbon emissions peaked in 2018 at 1.7 gigatonnes.
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And in September, fellow energy giant BP said the world may have already reached peak oil.
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