Tag Archives: peak oil

Peak Oil: Forbes. Maxwell. Oil. Last-nail. Coffin.

Impact: Hydrocarbon Use    September 21, 2010
Perhaps the title on this post is over the top (pun intended). The reality of peak oil is not a secret. However, that reality is generally among the media a pro-forma taboo. For media outlets where the cognoscenti need to know, it gets mentioned. For general consumption, the mass media, not so much. Save consumers [...]
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Peak Water

Impact: Water Shortage    May 28, 2010
By now most people have heard of the concept peak oil (I hope). This is the notion and probable fact that at some point the reserves of oil can no longer provide enough to meet demand and the supply of oil will inexorably begin to decline. Predictions for peak oil run from ‘it’s already happened’ [...]
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Lloyd’s Report: Water scarcity a threat to business

Impact: Water Shortage    April 29, 2010
“Catastrophic global water shortage is a greater global risk than soaring food prices and exhaustion of energy reserves during the 21st century.” This is not the voice of left or right (political) activism. This is not the agenda of this or that research group. This is the voice of sober (British) business thinking, emanating from [...]
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New model: Peak Oil earlier – 2014

News: Hydrocarbon Use    March 11, 2010
Forecasting the arrival of Peak Oil (the point at which production of oil reaches a maximum and begins to inexorably decline) more than ten years ahead of some other models, a research group at the University of Kuwait used an updated version of the Hubbert model (which correctly estimated the peak output of U.S. oil [...]
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Making jet fuel from biomass

News: Alternative Energy    February 26, 2010
One of the critical problems identified with ‘peak oil’ – that point where stocks of petroleum begin to inexorably decline – is the resultant shortage and expense of aviation jet fuel. As traditional jet fuel sources decline, it’s bad enough for a world that’s knit together by (relatively) inexpensive air travel, but there’s another problem [...]
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Branson’s no virgin on peak oil

Spun: February 9, 2010
Celebrity endorsements can be a mixed blessing. How do you react when a celebrity such as Richard Branson (that’s SIR Richard Branson, if you please) says something like this: “The next five years will see us face another crunch – the oil crunch. This time, we do have the chance to prepare. The challenge is [...]
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The sound of silence on peak oil

Impact: Hydrocarbon Use    January 6, 2010
Drive cars. Fly planes. Heat houses. Make plastics… How much of our daily activity (especially our jobs) depend on the use of hydrocarbons, that is, oil and natural gas? Can you think of many things with a more direct impact on the world’s economy and our lives than a shortage of oil or gas? Rhetorical [...]
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