Sentences with phrase «peak oil used»

Peak oil used to be about running out of supply; now some think that we will run out of demand.

Not exact matches

Since 1999, the price of West Texas Intermediate — one of the price benchmarks for oil used today in the market — has jumped by nearly 700 %, reaching a peak of $ 147 in 2008.

If in the 1970s we had begun a program of efficient use and switching gradually to other sources of energy, «peak oil» would remain quite far in the future and there might still be some chance to reduce global warming.

At its peak in the 1970s oil and natural gas accounted for nearly 70 per cent of the world's use of commercial energy.

But you can also use vanilla powder, and once you whip this thing into a frenzy like you say and it's really a stiff peak, you can even add oil to it, and it won't deflate on you terribly.

Don't be stingy with the fresh basil, and use the best extra-virgin olive oil and the sweetest balsamic vinegar you can find for this unforgettable way to relish peak summer tomatoes.

Although oil may be past its peak, oil use is definitely not going anywhere anytime soon.

If oil prices remain high and governments make progress on their emissions goals, there's a possibility that the world has already hit peak oil, and that the next few years will see its use plateau for a while before dropping again.

The term peak in the context of resource use is not new as it was popularized in the discussion about peak oil initiated in the mid-1970s.

Conventional oil production did peak in 2006, and that makes up 90 % of the oil we use now.

If you do intermittent fasting and eat one to two meals per day in a 4 - 6 hour eating window and use MCT oil in coffee and teas during the fasting period you can peak your ketones around 16 - 20 hours into the fast.

Use face oil mixed with moisturizer on your cheekbones, chin, and the peak of your forehead.»

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Every TRD Pro model features rear 2.5 - inch Fox shocks that utilize a piggyback reservoir to house additional oil volume, which assists in maintaining peak damping performance during extreme use.

A comparatively weaker China effectively ignored the outcry over Sudanese genocide to protect the 2002 peak level of 9 % of their oil imports, or barely 1 % of their total energy use at the peak and far less two years before / after.

We really should also be looking at peak oil more seriously and how we currently use around 20 million barrels of oil each day in America.

But the political reality in the United States remains that more oil will be needed before the country uses less, even as evidence emerges that «peak travel» is nigh (more on that concept soon).

As oil peaks gas will increasingly be used to make liquid fuels (GTL).

it's portended use is simply an indication and measure of the desparation of the powers that be as the death vice of peak oil gradually begins to tighten.

Re # 5 I think there is a good chance that Peak Oil could dramatically slow coal use within the next decade.

From the press release (here): «Holmgren uses a scenario planning framework to bring to life the likely cultural, political, agricultural and economic implications of peak oil and climate change.

Regarding peak oil, there is (in general) great confusion about the topic, which is aided by the use of imprecise definitions by various groups.

I have yet to see how society will replace our present massive use of fossil carbon in time to minimize the impact of the decline in available low cost liquid fuels after Peak Oil.

Peaking oil and natural gas extraction is going to accelerate global warming when many desperate people use wood and coal for heating and cooking.

We find that historical trends in oil use lead to a peak in demand for oil by well before mid-century.

Thus industrialized countries» total oil use peaked in 2005, U.S. gasoline use in 2007.

We are getting close to world peak production on resources like oil and natural gas, and we shouldn't be using them to dig up coal and make even more pollution delivering WY coal to Georgia.

I was aware of «peak oil», but always classed it with other Malthusian nonsense, usually used as an excuse to try to impose some utopian scheme.

We will attempt to transcend peak oil and gas by using increasingly risky technologies to extract the last drops, turning ever larger swaths of our globe into sacrifice zones.

If TCR / ECS are lower than assumed by IPCC experts, and if we use resource limits on oil, gas and coal (rather than using the hyper cornucopian figures used in RCP8.5), then the market, emerging technology driven by higher fossil fuel prices will reduce emissions to have concentration peak at ~ 630 ppm (that's a rough estimate).

I used to be very interested in «peak oil», still am marginally.

This year, for the first time, oil major BP forecast a peak in global coal use in the early 2030s.

If we continue using them at the current rate, they should last several hundred years, despite «peak oil» (etc.) disaster scenarios being presented by scare mongers.

«Peak» land use, which impacts the carbon cycle, occurred before the estimate «peak» oil and is a more pressing issue in the long term than peak Peak» land use, which impacts the carbon cycle, occurred before the estimate «peak» oil and is a more pressing issue in the long term than peak peak» oil and is a more pressing issue in the long term than peak peak CO2.

I used to believe in global warming — then like the CSIRO boss I made the mistake of trying to add a link from the Wikipedia global warming article to peak oil — it was removed almost instantaneously — I assumed a mistake — I added it back.

The recent rapid expansions of shale oil and gas production from the widespread shale deposits in many parts of the US at current price levels using new but proven technology shows that the peak oil hypothesis is false and Obama was wrong.

In recent decades their concerns have centered on energy use, epitomized by the peak oil hypothesis and the alleged inability of the environment to absorb increased human caused CO2 without catastrophic effects.

Powering a Bright Future contains solution - based readings on energy use and extraction, peak oil, fossil fuel subsidies, energy efficiency, equity, energy policy and low carbon food tips.

I like to use the analogy of Peak Oil to ask the same type questions.

And the International Monetary Fund has documented that since their peak in July 2008, oil prices declined by 69 % as of December 2008, and global food prices declined by 33 % during the same period, while U.S. corn production has remained at 12 billion bushels a month, one - third of which is still used for ethanol production.

Upon completion, Miraah will be among the world's largest solar plants delivering 1,021 MW of peak thermal energy to generate 6,000 tonnes of steam per day used for heavy oil production.

Jim Kunstler would say it is because of Peak Oil, that suburban homeowners won't be able to afford to heat or cool their houses or commute to work; We have said that it is because of global warming, that low density construction uses too many resources

Until recently the International Energy Agency never really publicly acknowledged peak oil, and still rarely uses the term itself even though over the past year the topic has been acknowledged to be (gasp) very real

And peak oil is easier to deal with than AGW, because unlike AGW, peak oil does not demand that we immediately end ALL use of fossil fuels.

Jim Kunstler would say it is because of Peak Oil, that suburban homeowners won't be able to afford to heat or cool their houses or commute to work; We have said that it is because of global warming, that low density construction uses too many resources and creates too much CO2 when nobody can walk anywhere; Perhaps demographer David Foot, author of Boom, Bust and Echo, 10 years ago was right all along, that demographics are everything and just watch those baby boomers.

The more we spec — ialiise and noisily choose sides — IPCC alarmists, Peak Oil doomsayers, Free Market denialists, Enviroterrorists, Wise Use privateers, etc — the more we resemble blind men arguing over how to tame an elephant.

For example, that more efficient use of oil will lead to increased demand, and will not slow the arrival or the effects of peak oil.

So, if you look at all the proven oil and gas reserves left in the world, you begin to understand that you're not going to use all that up, first of all, because it just going to become too expensive once you get over the peak.

We are not at peak oil yet but if we do not use more renewables we could be there within the next few decades so clean renewables are and will be very useful tech speaking and economically speaking but they will not replace all fossil fuels and not should they...