Sentences with phrase «peak oil places»

Peak Oil places you into the shiny, pointed shoes of someone running an oil empire where you must deal with investing in new technology, drilling for oil and then selling that oil before the world has run out of its favorite fossil fuel and will presumably be turning into a post-apocalyptic scenario quite soon, possibly with some guy called Max blasting around.

Not exact matches

The middleground of establishing the truth of the peak oil turning point (along with the political volatility that accompanies it), combined with the universal desire for «clean water» and «fresh air» may still be the best place to begin in improving our «climate».

The «Green Revolution» has produced a higher population level in many places that will now be extremely vulnerable to oil shortages and price inflation / instability as peak oil effects kick in.

U.S. oil demand is now seen as having peaked in 2005, and if additional climate - friendly policies are put in place it is expected to decline further.

The authors note that even if the large EIA reserve estimates are valid, peak CO2 could be kept close to 400 ppm if the most difficult to extract oil and gas is left in the ground via a rising price on carbon emissions that discourages remote exploration and environmental regulations that place some areas off - limits.

Hailed by Rob Hopkins as «possibly the biggest peak oil / climate change / Transition event to take place in the UK», Bristol's Big Event looks set to be a huge collective exploration of the future for this city of 400,000 residents as fossil fuels

It turns out Rob was recently asked to address the International Forum on Globalization taking place in Washington DC this weekend on the subject of peak oil and community resilience.

And that danger stretches well beyond peak oil — everyone who wants to make the world a better place would do well to remember that the future is not yet written.

burning fossil fuels for energy): Peak Oil and its cousin EROI (energy return on energy invested — «net energy return») are two good places to start.

I'm sure there will be those who scoff at public money (in California, of al places) being spent on expensive solar, but with the twin pressures of climate change and peak oil breathing down our necks, I suspect those regions that invest now in energy capacity for the future will find themselves profoundly grateful in the coming years.

Once the marketplace discovered this was unsustainable (USA hitting peak in 1970 and the oil embargo at the same time), all the efficiencies were put into place and energy waste was reduced so that we have assumed a much less than exponential increase regime since that time.