Sentences with phrase «reached peak oil»

Whether we've reached peak oil or not is irrelevant.

Since I suspect the world has already reached Peak Oil I expect the shift to electrically - powered vehicles will happen sooner than this study assumes.

In addition, various studies suggest that we have reached peak oil production, or will very soon, meaning the gap between supply and demand will only grow larger.

A report entitled «Have We Reached Peak Oil?»

But, as an ex hippie liberal enviro type I believe that we have reached peak oil and the future could be grim.

That, we will reach peak oil production worldwide this year is something we need to deal with.

While this last point is certainly debatable (even assuming we reach peak oil soon, we haven't seen data / projections showing how fast energy costs are expected to rise), it is clear that we will soon be paying more for the privilege of watching our big, new plasma TVs unless we quickly adapt to this new energy regime.

Not exact matches

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.»

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 Conference Board report also predicts direct employment at oil producers «will expand by just 2,150 net new positions» over the next four years, when it will reach «66,470 jobs, which is still below the 2015 peak» of 72,600 jobs.

It is difficult to find fault with at least its title, considering that the average price of oil over the preceding 10 years was $ 28 a barrel but rose to $ 45 over the ensuing decade to reach a peak of almost $ 150 in 2008.

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.»

Charles Hall, a professor at the State University of New York who researches energy and wealth, in graph after graph showed that almost every oil - producing country has reached its peak of oil production.

Many thought we had reached the limits of oil production and the global peak was nigh.

Given their historical optimism, it was notable that in their World Energy Outlook of 2010 the International Energy Agency stated that the most likely scenario is that conventional crude oil production «never regains its all - time peak of 70 million barrels per day reached in 2006.»

ASPO's latest model suggests that regular conventional oil reached an all time peak in 2005.

There are many factors to consider when trading oil, including theories on peak production, where available oil reaches a peak level, flattens out, then begins a decline.

The same denial reaches to «Peak Oil».

I suspect that it will be a long time before we reach this new Peak Oil Demand; they will just keep inventing ways to keep us hooked.

Ask an average American when U.S. oil production might reach a peak, then check out the surprised look when you tell him / her that it peaked in 1970.

The reality of reaching peak global production of cheap, conventional light, sweet crude oil supplies will continue to force strong upper pressure on the cost of crude oil, gasoline, diesel and airplane liquid fuels.

it seems to me a mighty strange coincidence that PEAK OIL seems to be occurring (and increasingly acknowledged by even our oil company executives) just as anthropogenic climate change hysteria has reached a zenith.

Like oil, the issue is not any risk of running out, but volatile and rising prices as the peak level of quality supply is reached.

Many reports have predicted that peak oil has been reached or will be reached in the very near future, which will drive these costs up further.

The consensus seems to be pretty strong that we have reached global peak oil now or will very soon.

But whether the peak is already past or will be reached within a few years, world oil supply will decline at some point, and no one predicts a corresponding decline in demand.

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 peoil 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 peoil 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 peOil Shock and the World Economy, presents a compelling case that Middle Eastern oil production may have already reached its peoil production may have already reached its peak.

It appears that conventional oil has reached its peak and is, as well, controlled by sovereign oil companies not the oil majors.

To a growing number of oil industry commentators this is because we have reached, or are just about to reach, peak oil — the point at which oil production hits an all time high then goes into terminal decline.

Indeed, notes Rutgers biologist David Ehrenfeld, studies by prominent oil geologists show that «global energy production per capita reached its peak in 1979 and has been falling at an average rate of 0.33 percent per year ever since.»

The Transition movement represents one of the most promising ways of engaging people and communities to take the far - reaching actions that are required to mitigate the effects of peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis.

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...

Another thing is that I don't know any scenario in which we reach 6 °C with a close peak oil.

They point out that increased material wealth has not necessarily brought greater happiness, and they argue that more human - scale communities can improve our daily lives in many ways that reach far beyond adaptation to peak oil.

Oh and we have more than a century of natural gas left, quite a bit of coal and we have not reached our total peak oil reserves as of yet either... Sceintific American has a recent issue discussing all of that though.

Given their historical optimism, it was notable that in their World Energy Outlook of 2010 the International Energy Agency stated that the most likely scenario is that conventional crude oil production «never regains its all - time peak of 70 million barrels per day reached in 2006.»

The CFOs surveyed were pretty much evenly split on the issue of peak oil: 48 % said that we are either past a global peak in oil production or will reach that point within several years; 52 % believed that production rates can continue to increase.

But just as we're reaching the point of peak oil when it comes to our nation's energy supply, are firms likewise embarking on a peak associate supply, where there simply aren't enough bodies to sustain law firms» work and profits?

Peak oil was the notion, much talked about in the early Aughts, that after a maximum point of oil extraction had been reached, the world's economy would go to hell in a hand basket because there wouldn't be enough oil to do all the stuff we humans want to do with it.

The theory of «peak oil» has had to be, but it set me wondering whether, from a recruiters» point of view, the lateral partner market has in fact reached, and passed, its peak, both in terms of revenue and, possibly, activity too.

When the price of oil plunged from a peak of $ 107 per barrel in June 2014 to a 12 - year low of $ 26 per barrel in February 2016, prices at the pump began dropping, briefly reaching a low of $ 2.05 nationwide in January 2017...