Along the way, Rebecca also meets Ben and Charlotte Hollins - the brother and sister team who now run the innovative Fordhall Farm in Shropshire - and talks about their nature - based no - till pasture system; she talks with
peak oil experts Richard Heinberg and Colin Campbell; visits Martin Crawford of the Agroforestry Research Trust and explores the small holding of Chris and Lynn Dixon - who have pioneered their low input, biodiverse permaculture - based land management techniques in the hills of Wales for years.
Not exact matches
Only 10 years later, when
oil went to $ 147 / barrel the «
experts» said
oil will stay high or go even higher because we passed
peak oil.
So did the
peak oil «
experts» disappear forever?
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.»
With domestic production of
oil, gas and uranium far below
peaks, coal has been promoted by elected officials and energy
experts as the only bright spot in the national fuel supply picture.
Even if you trim off the ends of the curve of squalor and overindulgence, you end up with a huge energy gap, which may already be what is helping drive up
oil and coal prices (keep in mind most
experts on fossil fuels I talk to see no signs of «
peak coal» any time soon).
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).
Many analysts predict that the world's production of
oil will peak in the next ten to twenty years, but oil expert Matt Simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy, presents a compelling case that Middle Eastern oil production may have already reached its pe
oil will
peak in the next ten to twenty years, but
oil expert Matt Simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy, presents a compelling case that Middle Eastern oil production may have already reached its pe
oil expert Matt Simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi
Oil Shock and the World Economy, presents a compelling case that Middle Eastern oil production may have already reached its pe
Oil Shock and the World Economy, presents a compelling case that Middle Eastern
oil production may have already reached its pe
oil production may have already reached its
peak.
And then finally, there's the problem that I'm not
expert enough to give a firm answer to, but I think it's in prospect if it's not already here, and that is
peak oil.
Transition Milwaukee (TM) is part of an international movement formed, in part, in response to the
peak oil crisis and more generally around issues of climate change, economic security and permaculture principles.
Peak oil is a non-controversial acknowledgement from government, academic and industry
experts that fossil fuels, a finite resource, reach a
peak moment of production and necessarily...
I will however, turn to one of the many
experts on
peak oil to get his take on it.
Based on Nelder's findings at the conference, he noted that there was a strong consensus among
experts (not Wall Street analysts and
oil - happy bloggers), that the global
peak of production is estimated to occur between 2010 and 2013.
Also remember that last week it emerged that, as many
peak oil researchers and energy
experts have long been saying, Saudi Arabia has been vastly overstating
oil reserves and its ability to expand production.
I am not, I should note, an
oil geologist, nor an
expert in the arguments around the imminence (or not) of
peak oil.