Sentences with phrase «for peak oil»

I think I am up to 14,000 posts of TheOilDrum.com (tech central for Peak Oil), a chapter in «transport Beyond Oil» (Island Press), Millennium Institute, etc..

Wishful Thinking Where Monbiot's writings on the matter do ring true, however, is that there are some in the environmentalist community who seemed to have almost been wishing for peak oil to happen.

Even if you do not accept global warming and do not see the point of reducing the production of greenhouse gases, what is your solution for the peak oil problem?

The Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan out of rural Ireland is the world's first local action plan for peak oil, dealing with broad issues relating to peak, including health, education, tourism and youth issues.

The more permaculture people I met, the more hopeful I became that we can find a way out of this mess if we start preparing for peak oil now.

More specialized is oleocene, a very active discussion forum for peak oil addicts: most members here consider Matthew Simmons or James Horward Kunstler as ultimate stars.

I may not have been a huge fan of Colapsus» alarmist depiction of peak oil, but with IEA whistleblowers warning of inflated oil stats, business leaders warning us to prepare for peak oil in

BBC Explores One Farm's Plans for Peak Oil - Apparently... I'm very proud of all that Planet Green is doing to raise environmental awareness, but I think it's fair to say that the television industry is not doing all it could to draw attention to the

So much so, that Virgin bross Richard Branson believes we should be mobilizing for peak oil as if for war.

There is no need for peak oil to be more than a temporary inconvenience if we do the obvious things that need to be done to prepare for it, which of course closely overlap with the things we need to do to deal with AGW.

Ready for peak oil, anybody?

Portrayal of concern for peak oil as a «chicken little», «Cassandra» and «boy who cried wolf» phenomenon by a credible news source effectively erases what nagging concern or belief about oil depletion someone had started to foment.

But all I asked was «when is your prediction for Peak Oil».

Some who were advocating «power - down» and «population control» for peak oil just over a decade ago are regulars on ATTP's blog now, expressing their superior logical abilities over the lesser intellects here.

Most recently we talked about the potentially ground breaking Transition City Bristol initiative, a community lead process to plan for peak oil, but as we noted then, it doesn't end there.

Tar and shale sands can not scale in time and neither can coal for peak oil to make a large scale impact.

Witness our posts on community groups planning for peak oil in Portland, and in Totnes in the UK.

Not exact matches

Internal studies by a group of analysts within Shell known as the «scenarios» team had concluded that global demand for oil might peak in as little as a decade — essentially tomorrow in an industry that plans in quarter - century increments.

The International Energy Agency, which says that global oil demand could peak around 2020 if governments adopted particularly green policies, predicts that even if it happened, oil still would account for 23 % of total global energy in 2040, down from 32 % in 2016.

The new Vito is right - sized, the Shell team hopes, for a world of peaking oil demand.

With other parts of the world already in turmoil, fallout from Syria could upend the dynamic, as the peak summer season for oil demand approaches, keeping oil prices in a new, elevated range.

As we near peak summer driving season, American consumers would have worried a generation ago that such a meeting would be an impetus for a pullback in production, with oil exporters aiming to raise prices by limiting supply.

Neither cut was a particular surprise: Buffett had previously said he erred in buying Conoco at a peak price for oil (though now, of course, the commodity's rising price is putting a different cast on the investment) and he had publicly protested Kraft's 2010 purchase of Cadbury, which he thought not in the interests of Kraft's shareholders.

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For instance, they expect Brent crude to peak at $ 82.50 per barrel in July and copper to peak at $ 8,000 per ton in December, but they have forecast lower prices for both oil and copper in 20For instance, they expect Brent crude to peak at $ 82.50 per barrel in July and copper to peak at $ 8,000 per ton in December, but they have forecast lower prices for both oil and copper in 20for both oil and copper in 2019.

The reason the S&P 500's recent performance looks so good is that earnings cratered for six quarters (stretching from that peak in late 2014 to early 2016), thanks to a collapse in oil prices that pushed earnings for energy giants deeply into the red.

Shell can both comfortably pay shareholders and invest to ensure its survival after demand for oil peaks.

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That is the lowest for both in at least a decade and down from $ 3.9 billion for metals and $ 5.6 billion for oil in 2008 when the commodity supercycle peaked.

So the sharp fall in oil prices has certainly been disruptive, but stabilization from distressed trough levels should be good for economic growth even if the price of oil doesn't rebound back to peak levels of above $ 100 a barrel in 2014.

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.

The latest peak demand forecast comes from BP, which is predicting that the demand for oil will peak before 2040.

In 1906, the year of a peak that was not exceeded for ten years, President Theodore Roosevelt filed his famous suit against the country's largest company, Standard Oil.

Takeaway: recent oil crash creates a long - term income opportunity for brave investors While it can be hard to buy equities in whatever industry is Wall Street's latest whipping boy, this is precisely the time, when pessimism and uncertainty are near their peak, that the best long - term investments are made.

Inflation forecasts will be revised down, if anything automatically, as the result of lower oil prices -LRB--37 % between the mid-November and mid-February cut - off dates) and a stronger trade - weighted currency (+5.1 % for the EUR EER - 38, although the index has eased by 3.5 % from its peak).

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

It seems like great news to me in an anxious age, when we live in fear of economic collapse or terrorist attack, and are just waiting for the housing bubble to pop or for oil production to peak.

I substituted honey for agave nectar, increased nutmeg to 1 1/2 tsp & separated eggs, stirred yolks with honey & oil (whipped whites to soft peaks & folded in at the end).

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.

They include: high levels of degraded soils; reductions in irrigation quotas to restore the health of the Murray - Darling system; the re-forestation of some agricultural land to meet emissions reductions targets; the impacts of peak oil, such as the diversion of food crops into feed - stock for biofuels; and the price and crop yield implications of peak phosphorous, given Australia's dependence on imported fertilisers.

If you need to lower the oil, substitute 3/4 C of applesauce for 1 / 2C of the olive oil and whip the egg whites to soft peaks and blend in to lighten the texture.

In the face of the decline in North Sea oil and gas, the looming early likelihood of peak oil, and the UK's growing dependence on volatile African and Middle Easter state for its fuel, the government has no sure plan to prevent the lights going out at the end of this decade.

Additionally, researchers saw that the water depletion rates for each state in the High Plains Aquifer follow a similar bell - shaped curve pattern as the one for oil depletion in the U.S. modeled by the Hubbert peak theory.

Hubbert is best known for developing the theory of «peak oil»: the idea that oil productionwill be characterized by an initial period of exponential growth, followed by a peak (or peaks), followed by a substantial decline.

Demand for oil in developed nations peaked in 2005, and changing demographics and improved motor - vehicle efficiency guarantee that it won't hit those heights again, IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates says in a new report.

But with the price of oil dropping — by an average of 2 percent a year since the peak in 1980 — «that could push off the date for economic feasibility by as much as 25 years,» says Lynch.

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.

At its peak this month, there were almost 1200 fires burning across Indonesia — most of them lit illegally to clear land for palm oil and timber.

Worse, after the supply crunch of 2008 that sent the price soaring to $ 147 per barrel and was widely mistaken for the global peak, the world is now swimming in oil once more, and the price languishes at around $ 50.

Inman misses another huge irony here: Hubbert's forecast for the peak of global crude oil was bang on, but its full impact was deferred by the very production technique he had helped develop 60 years earlier.