By Blair Fix, Economics from the Top Down
I’m calling the analysis ‘a case study of oil-and-gas depletion’. In this post, I’ll analyze oil extraction like you’ve never seen it before — resolved down to the individual well. The results give a fascinating window into how humans exploit fossil fuels.
By Tad Patzek, Life Itself
An ocean of ink has already been spilled on pros and cons of using Hubbert curves to model production from a large collection of wells in one or many reservoirs.
By Ugo Bardi, Resource Crisis
A Seneca shaped production curve would considerably reduce the amount of fossil carbon that can be burned in the future.
By Gail Tverberg, ourfiniteworld.com
At the Age of Limits Conference, I gave a talk called Converging Crises, talking about the crises facing us as we reach energy limits. In this post, I discuss some highlights from a fairly long talk.