Emergy as a Metric of Sustainability
Under what conditions will a technology be able to survive the energy contraction associated with the depletion of fossil fuels?
Oil
The way I saw things
I often find myself wondering where my life would be today had I not stumbled across The Oil Drum in 2005. I don’t know that I would still be writing today were it not for my early experiences with TOD readers. As TOD winds down, I thought I’d share my story, which I have not told before.
Argentina: energy boom or energy cliff?
At the end of the 20th century, Argentina started exporting gas to Chile, a mirage of the gas possibilities in this country. Both Argentina and Chile believed that the supply was going to be increasing forever.
Peak Oil Review – August 19
A weekly review including: Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East & North Africa, China, Quote of the Week, The Briefs
The hype cycle: How the oil and gas industry manipulates investors and the public
What would you expect them to say? That’s the question you should ask whenever spokespersons for the oil and gas industry (or fake think tanks funded by the industry or analysts whose bread is buttered by the industry) announce a new find that is going to be a "game-changer.”
Doubling of Iraqi oil production by 2020?
Those who expect a doubling of Iraqi oil production to 6 mb/d by 2020 should pray for enduring peace and social justice in this war-torn country.
America: Exporting our way to energy independence?
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. That’s the credo of the oil and gas industry as it continues to lobby for increased oil and natural gas exports from the United States.
Peak big oil? – headlines
•Despite boom, higher costs push Big Oil into slump •Shale Plays Not Working For Big Oil •Shale-Boom Profits Bypass Big Oil •Big Oil would henceforth like to be known as Not-Really-Big-But-Still-Nicely-Profitable Oil
Backing the Front
When Gloria Flora took the helm of Lewis & Clark National Forest in Montana in 1995, she found priceless wildlands threatened by oil and gas speculators. Defying convention, she declared the area off-limits to oil and gas development, adding a definitive new twist to the interplay between community groups, the fossil fuel industry,and the government that is playing out in surprising ways.
Peak oil notes – Aug 1
A mid-week update…Oil prices were flat on Monday, fell a bit on Tuesday on the economic outlook, and then bounced up $2 a barrel
Peak oil lives! – headlines
•Peak oil isn’t dead; it just smells that way •Peak oil lives, but will kill the economy •Technology vanquishes the peak-oilers, again
US Oil Demand Peak was in 2007
Detroit’s Motown legacy has put the spotlight on the vulnerability of the American car culture. Despite an oil shale boom and years of money printing US oil demand has hit a wall.
