Nuclear Energy and the Fossil Fuels
M. King Hubbert’s pioneering 1956 paper which gave rise to the concept of Peak Oil, presented here for the first time as a searchable text document.
Year: 2006
Politics & economics – Mar 8
Oil producers reach for more power /
The Middle East after the oil: evolve or die /
Alaska rural-to-urban trend may be linked to high fuel prices /
Oil exporters can help trade balance-Treasury paper /
The India Bush didn’t see /
Venezuela boosts oil rigs, not enough to raise output
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 8
Continuity of family for sustainable culture /
Green technology to make sewage a less dirty word /
Efforts in Japanese society and business to slow down /
Web site builds powerful storehouse of research /
Bio-diesel an alternative way of life in Berkeley
M. King Hubbert’s Lower 48 Prediction Revisited
How accurate has the Hubbert Linearization technique been in predicting post-peak cumulative Lower 48 oil production? What can the Lower 48 model tell us about the future of world net oil export capacity? Finally, we have a recommendation, a fundamental shift in US tax policy.
Closet Space
What I learned from the way my client talked about shopping was that in order to continue to be invited to this party of American abundance, one had to buy things continually. …What my client needed was an invitation to a new kind of party. A party where frugality and make-do creativity was the currency of the realm.
The coming resource wars
In a major London address, British Defense Secretary John Reid warned that global climate change and dwindling natural resources are combining to increase the likelihood of violent conflict over land, water and energy.
M. King Hubbert’s Lower 48 Prediction Revisited
How accurate has the Hubbert Linearization technique been in predicting post-peak cumulative Lower 48 oil production? What can the Lower 48 model tell us about the future of world net oil export capacity? Finally, we have a recommendation, a fundamental shift in US tax policy.
Planning for the future of farming
California farmland faces threats from development at the same time food security is threatened by global energy descent.
Guns and sunshades to rescue climate
Is there a silver bullet that can help us to limit the amount of climate change? Some such “silver bullets” aim to scrub carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere, some to cool Earth directly by veiling it; others are yet more radical.
Peak oil – Mar 7
Sustainable fossil fuels (Dr. Mark Jaccard) /
Tragedy prompts personal peak oil website /
NZ branch of ASPO started /
The Oil Drum empire expands to the UK /
Ex-CIA head and environmentalists agree on no-oil thinking /
Revisiting the Olduvai Theory /
Peak Oil becoming de facto /
Poster child of the collapse /
An energy Pearl Harbor?
Other energy – Mar 7
Lovins: Winning the oil endgame (talk) /
The real cost of electricity /
Gov. Schweitzer’s coal-to-fuels program: What you didn’t hear on ‘60 Minutes’ /
Life in a grass house (the viability of switchgrass) /
Kuwaiti MP demands truth on Kuwaiti oil
