Wednesday, July 31, 2013

429. THE "OIL DRUM" BITES THE BAG

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It's been a while since I last checked the PO situation, but I did a bit of browsing recently, and it seems that PO has, well, gone down...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012

428. EVEN HUBBERT WAS WRONG

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The founding myth of "peak oil" has always been Hubbert's 1956 prediction that US oil production would peak in the early 1970s...
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Friday, June 25, 2010

427. PEAK OIL SNOOZE-ATHON CONTINUES

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Hi everyone. I've been on a long vacation from peak oil because it's so boring and irrelevant to daily life, but today I'd like ...
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Saturday, October 03, 2009

426. LOCAL FOOD GUZZLES MORE FUEL THAN LONG-DISTANCE FOOD

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We're all familiar with the classic Kunstler rap: The age of the 3000-mile-caesar salad will soon be over. Food production based on m...
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Saturday, September 26, 2009

425. GOING RURAL FOR PEAK OIL: BAD IDEA

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I've often thought that moving to the country is one of dumber things you could do in response to peak oil. My reasoning for this is sim...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

424. OIL AND FOSSIL FUEL DEPENDENCE: LEADERS AND LAGGARDS

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Lately, I've been fooling around with the figures from the 2009 BP Statistical Review (BSR) -- in particular the data for "Consumpt...
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Saturday, September 19, 2009

423. MIKE RUPPERT, THE "PROPHET"

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Just when you thought he'd checked himself into a good psychiatric facility.... Mike Ruppert roars back as the star of a new feature fil...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

422. RENEWABLES STATUS REPORT FOR 2008

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REN21 has released its Renewables Global Status Report 2009 . This table shows the scorecard, as of the end of 2008: The wind build is ama...
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Sunday, September 06, 2009

421. OIL DRUM CENSORING ARTICLES

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It seems this article by Lionel Badal was too hot for the Oil Drum to handle. I have to admit it's a little bizarre to see the Oil Drum...
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Thursday, September 03, 2009

420. MATT SIMMONS: THE BUFFOONERY NEVER ENDS

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Man, this is some funny stuff... our old buddy Matt Simmons is pulling the fire alarm again. Seems there's some crackpots out there maki...
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009

419. SORRY FOR THE GLITCH!

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Some readers noticed that I was briefly branded as a malware site by Google yesterday. The site is back to normal now, but let me explain. I...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

418. IRAQ MOBILIZING

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This will be an interesting factor to watch going forward: Iraq aims to increase oil production by up to four times: minister ISTANBUL — I...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009

417. US NATURAL GAS GLUT CONTINUES

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From Rigzone : Natural gas prices after rallying on surprisingly strong labor market news have retreated in recent days as the prospect of f...
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Monday, August 17, 2009

416. CERAMATEC SODIUM-SULPHUR BATTERY

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Interesting new battery with tremendous potential: In a modest building on the west side of Salt Lake City, a team of specialists in advance...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

415. 16,000 MILE ICE CUBES IN THE YEAR 1833

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Lately I've been reading A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World by William Bernstein, a fascinating book which details the hi...
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

414. THE DECLINE OF TRANSOCEANIC TRADE?

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Recently Jeff Rubin has been talking up the end of globalization due to peak oil: Jeff Rubin, a former chief economist with CIBC World Mark...
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Thursday, July 30, 2009

413. OIL SHOCKS DO NOT CAUSE GLOBAL RECESSION

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As noted in the previous article, peak oil doomers constantly say that oil shocks (or high oil prices) inevitably cause economic recession. ...
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Thursday, July 16, 2009

412. THE MYSTERY OF CHINESE GROWTH

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This morning, I was looking at the Nikkei Shimbun (Japan's leading economics daily), and noticed the following graph of China's GDP ...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

411. REALITY CHECK FOR "ACE"

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Today's a good day to review one of the oil production forecasts made by the Oil Drum's primary forecaster, Tony Eriksen aka "a...
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Sunday, July 12, 2009

410. MORE ON THE IMPORT LAND EFFECT

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This is a continuation of the previous post 409. THE IMPORT LAND MODEL examining the relevance of the Jeffrey Brown's Export Land Model...
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Thursday, July 09, 2009

409. THE IMPORT LAND MODEL

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I've previously discussed the statistical gimmickry of Jeffrey Brown's Export Land Model (ELM). The problem can be quickly summarize...
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