Peak Oil, Population, and the Permanent Portfolio

[PP67]

Just to add a little "fuel" to the fire, ZeroHedge had a good (in my opinion) guest post on the subject of peak oil:

"Efforts are underway to convince the general populace that our energy concerns are a thing of the past and that the new energy discoveries in the Bakken and other shale formations have proven Peak Oil to be a mistaken idea. Some efforts go even further and flatly state that energy independence is right around the corner.

Nothing could be further from the truth...."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-pos ... rous-ideas

I would say "Enjoy" but the content doesn't quite lend itself to that...

[MediumTex]

I would say "Enjoy" but the content doesn't quite lend itself to that...

I think that the term for what you have posted is "doomer porn."

[PP67]

For however long and however much oil we have left to consume, it really is a remarkable substance with an incredibly high energy density in an extremely convenient portable form which will be very hard to replace in the quantities required and at a comparable cost...

If you want a visual perspective, calculate the diameter of the stream of fuel that pushes your +4,500 lb. car at 75 mph for 1 mile and compare that to say a human hair... (as I always told my kids, life is a word problem)...

[doodle]

The pictures in this story kind of remind me of the bacteria and the bottle example from the video (There is no Tomorrow) that you posted, MT.

http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/pictures ... -heat.html

[MachineGhost]

The pictures in this story kind of remind me of the bacteria and the bottle example from the video (There is no Tomorrow) that you posted, MT.

http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/pictures ... -heat.html

What's with all the perverted comments?  Is that illustrative of the attitude of Chinese men?

MG

[AdamA]

You might take a look at Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael" if you want a more subtle perspective on the topics we are discussing above.

It's an interesting book with some really big ideas in it, among them that the advent of agriculture was actually the beginning of humanity's fall from grace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_%28novel%29

I finally got the chance to read this fantastic book. 

Thanks for recommending it.  You were not kidding when you said it had some "big ideas" in it. 

[AdamA]

The latest on the peak oil debate.

Quick and entertaining read.

http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archi ... il/309294/

[Kriegsspiel]

In a Thursday statement, [Shell] said its “oil production peaked in 2019,” and that we can now expect it to decline gradually by 1 or 2% per year. Shell also said its total carbon emissions peaked in 2018 at 1.7 gigatonnes.
. . .
And in September, fellow energy giant BP said the world may have already reached peak oil.

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