Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The world teeters on the brink of economic disaster due to energy shortages caused by war. Key oil-producing nations are unable and unwilling to increase output, though prices are high. The solutions being proposed—renewable energy technologies—are coming on line, but not fast enough. Sound familiar?
Peak oil calls on us to imagine a lower-energy future and to start adapting now. It’s a game-changer, and a life-changer.
In the final part of this three-part interview series, Richard Heinberg reflects on decades of ignored warnings about energy descent and economic collapse, calling for a voluntary relocalization of economics and politics.
In the oil and natural gas industry it is a truism that you can’t produce what you haven’t discovered. Here’s why current trends are disturbing.
It appears that Mexican oil production is predicted to fall off a cliff after 2030. It’s likely to be just the first shoe to drop in the next few years.
This book – and others it references, particularly Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems’ – should be a standard read for university students, but I suspect it will only be read by those who are already-there, or at least already well-on-the-way.
On this episode, petroleum geologist Arthur Berman returns to unpack the development and drawbacks of ‘peak oil’.
Finite resources are real constraints that no magical thinking or predicting by the industry can overcome.
Colin Campbell, the petroleum geologist who coined the term “peak oil,” has died. He was a co-founder of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO) in 2000 and the author of many articles and books on petroleum geology and oil depletion.
If there is so much more oil for us to discover and produce, why have estimates of recoverable resources been declining for three years in a row?
An analysis in Bloomberg points to a key and obvious cause of today’s high prices for oil and other commodities: There isn’t enough of them to go around.
Investment icon Warren Buffett once wrote in a letter to shareholders, “You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.” In the wake of the pandemic, the tide has gone out in U.S. shale oil and the naked swimmers are all around. With this decline of the so-called “shale miracle” is a peak in world oil production already behind us?
