Sentences with phrase «about peak oil»

The only reason we should really care about peak oil is that it means oil will be getting increasingly expensive and, as that happens, renewable sources will become more competitive.

Most claims about peak oil over the past 150 years were proven wrong despite the fact oil supply is finite.Despite some of Hubert's correct claims his assessment that 2000 would bring the peak was shown to be wrong.

In a world where internet «hits» invariably involve dumb stunts, cute kittens or scantily clad women (my second most popular post ever involved a young woman dancing in lingerie while talking about peak oil), it can be hard for scientists or activists to make their voice heard.

And read on for more information about peak oil and the Transition movement.

With oil prices down from where they were a year ago (though rising steadily in the past few weeks) and the constant stream of project announcements in the renewable energy sector still flowing in I'll forgive you if you haven't thought about peak oil

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Richard talks first about peak oil, a once popular theory about diminishing fossil fuel reserves which he believes will again soon rear its head, despite...

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For more than a decade, a fierce debate about peak oil has been raging between those who think a peak in global oil production is at hand and those who think the world is not close to running out of oil.

The author is correct that many who write about peak oil «believe that technological optimism of any sort is a form of denial.»

Publication date: 2008-12-30 First published in: Science & Public Affairs Authors: K. Aleklett, M. Lynch Abstract: Do we need to worry about Peak Oil?

An award - winning documentary film about peak oil.

Hunter, Who cares about idiotically wrong predictions about peak oil?

There is a lot of discussion about Peak Oil facts and global oil production.

Theoildrum.com has grown far beyond just talking about peak oil.

This is what the general public thinks of as «oil», and is the reason for panic about peak oil.

The contrast between points a) and c) is the reason for so much confusion about peak oil.

Though economists and other eternal optimists have not yet figured that the supply of crude oil is a limited resource, a growing number of petroleum geologists speak about peak oil, a time when world oil production peaks, then starts downward, perhaps after sitting around a plateau for some unknown time period.

For years everyone including TreeHugger worried about Peak Oil, where it was assumed that the cost of oil production would keep going up and up until nobody could afford it anymore.

Should this be the case, they could be deemed to be more of a threat to my grandchild than that represented by global warming denialists (many of whom are pro nuclear and concerned about peak oil and population overshoot).

Then we talked about peak oil and she immediately stated that she didn't believe in that.

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.

Not exact matches

The acceptance of the notion that global oil demand will peak within a generation is mind - blowing given that, just a decade ago, the chatter in the energy world was about a coming peak in oil supply.

Thiel's peak - oil thesis did well by Clarium until mid-2008, as the price of oil soared from about $ 40 a barrel in 2002 to nearly $ 140.

And unlike with the oil industry, no «fracking» method has been invented yet to extract gold from hard - to - reach areas, though Barrick — the world's largest producer by output — has been experimenting with sensors at its Cortez project in Nevada.What Pierre is talking about, of course, is the idea of «peak gold.»

The alleged news about the «Death of Peak Oil» were grossly overestimated - Peak Oil remains the reality of yesterday, today and tomorrow.

It's hard to believe that only a few years ago people worried about «peak oil.»

Ten years ago, the market was fretting, everyone was worried about «peak oil,» and now the focus is on peak demand.

According to the Russian website Finanz, citing the International Energy Agency, the Russian oil industry is about to see its production peak.

Having peaked ahead of the Iraq war and fallen sharply following its commencement, the price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil has since risen again, amidst uncertainty about the resumption and continuity of Iraqi export supply.

If you haven't heard of «peak oil» before, you'll be hearing a lot more about it in the coming years, because it's here.

The real elephant in the room is «Peak Cheap Oil» and the fact that unconventional's about to fall off a cliff.

But it does make you think that maybe our worry about «peak oil» and nuclear meltdowns is all just a phase.

These things are problematic to focus on, since they are deeply personal, yet on a societal level they make very little difference — meaning that they can alienate someone very quick, yet, even their perfect application (lifelong marriages between men and women only) would not cure our social ills — what about wars, starvation, national debt, environmental decay, cheating banks, resource depletion, peak oil etc. etc?

Yet, while president after president emphasised the importance of tackling the problem, US net oil imports kept rising, until they peaked in 2005 at about 12.5 million barrels of oil per day, 65 % of total US demand.

* Foreign Reserves have peaked at $ 40b, the highest level in about four years, and up from $ 24 billion just a year ago, even though when we came in, the price of oil had crashed woefully.

MAUGERI REPLIES: It seems to me that the conventional view about oil has become precisely the one proposed by Campbell and Laherrère: that the world is heading toward peak production.

Many people are concerned about the perils of peak oil — running out of cheap oil.

The public has indeed become more open - minded about the risks of peak oil, which vary from the dire (mass starvation and resource wars) to the blasé (markets bring forth new technologies that save the day).

«At its peak in production, which occurred in 1970s, the U.S. produced about 10 million [barrels of oil] a day,» Kaufman says.

But the availability of fresh water has already reached crisis proportions in many parts of the world, and some experts warn we should be more worried about «peak freshwater» than «peak oil.»

Peak blood concentrations of cannabinoids occur about 3 - 8 minutes after you inhale, as opposed to 60 - 90 minutes after you eat a weed - or oil - containing edible, with neural effects beginning after 20 minutes and maximizing within a range of 2 - 4 hours.

My oil peaked through after about 6 - 7 hours of wear.

It is vital in sustainability education to give space for learners to develop their own visions for a sustainable future whilst reminding participants about the issues underpinning the need for change — climate change, peak oil, global inequity and the financial cost of fossil fuels.

The petrol unit makes about 82 bhp and develops 113 Nm of peak torque, while the oil burner makes 74 bhp and 190 Nm of peak torque.

The petrol oil burner churns about 67bhp of maximum power and peak torque of 90Nm.

Rick Rule joins Porter to talk about the secrets to investing, peak oil and the current investment climate.

2050 takes us about 40 years beyond Peak Oil.

What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.

I don't think anyone is seriously claiming that we're about to «run out» — rather, the claim made by the Peak Oil theorists is that we're at or near peak productPeak Oil theorists is that we're at or near peak productpeak production.