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Topic: how long will demand destruction keep oil at bay |
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:59 pm Subject: Re: how long will demand destruction keep oil at bay |
| I don't think this is demand destruction keeping oil at bay. I think this is what price oil SHOULD be and the 140's we saw were equivalent to gold in the 1000+'s. Like gold, it dropped down to a more ... |
Topic: THE Dream Thread (merged) |
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Forum: Psychology Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 3:11 pm Subject: Re: First peak oil nightmare |
I've had a few doomer dreams now.
First one I had I was in a grocery store and I guess crap hit the fan and it went from being a normal situation to having walls collapse, people grabbing everythin ... |
Topic: Bakken (U.S.) formation oil discovery - 4 billion barrels |
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 6:54 pm Subject: Re: North Dakota Bakken - 450 Billion Barrels? |
| The issue of peak oil is not the reserves, as there is plenty of oil on this planet, but rather the EROEI of extracting it. So no, it really won't effect it any more than the other trillions of barrel ... |
Topic: No Worries -- Counterargument |
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 6:52 pm Subject: Re: No Worries -- Counterargument |
And yet...
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/files/sydimc/images/Oil-producing-countries-past-peak-Oct-2007.png
The next time you or anyone else accuses me of posting a forecast (which I get accused of ... |
Topic: Dollar crisis = Oil crisis. |
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 6:44 pm Subject: Re: Dollar crisis = Oil crisis. |
Using the same kind of reasoning . . .
World oil consumption has only risen about 1.2% in the past year, so the price of oil should only have risen about 1.2%, plus adjustment for the value of th ... |
Topic: A View As To Why We Are So Miserable And Unhappy. |
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Forum: Psychology Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:39 pm Subject: Re: A View As To Why We Are So Miserable And Unhappy. |
God would not punish us for disobedience. It is why he gave us free will; so we could choose for ourselves to follow the right path: the path to God.
Or maybe it's another contradiction... |
Topic: Find a walkable neighborhood |
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:25 am Subject: Re: Find a walkable neighborhood |
Walk Score: 3 out of 100
Gotta love suburbia |
Topic: In the long run, global warming may be good for us |
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:10 am Subject: Re: In the long run, global warming may be good for us |
our first world countries are cleaner because we outsources all our factories to china and india....
global warming isn't a good thing any way you cut it. the whole stint about natural gas etc is ... |
Topic: JD Attacks the Issue of Scale |
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 11:31 pm Subject: Re: JD Attacks the Issue of Scale |
| do you realize the energy and resources required to build solar panels? Don't forget they only last 15-20 years, and batteries even less. Good luck with that one; energy has a tendency to flow from hi ... |
Topic: Bakken (U.S.) formation oil discovery - 4 billion barrels |
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:06 pm Subject: Re: "Saskatchewan may be sitting on oil bonanza" |
| I think it's best to keep in mind that conventional giant wells give at even a most conservative estimate somewhere around 20: 1 EROEI while these giant wells give at a most liberal estimate somewhere ... |
Topic: THE State of Hawaii Thread |
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Forum: Americas Discussion Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:33 pm Subject: Re: Diversity in The Aloha State (hawaii) |
| ILP, you're like a politician. Avoid the questions, give no real answers, and never have proof. Saying this and that is great an all, but you have no evidence, and therefore your statements are void o ... |
Topic: Western China oil shale: World's biggest? |
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:58 pm Subject: Re: Western China oil shale: World's biggest? |
That said absolutely nothing about the trillions of barrels of oil in unconventional sources. The peak oilers there seem to act as if it doesn't even exist.
Na, but im sure the shift from 30:1 to ... |
Topic: Peak Oil : Scalability and Orders of Magnitude |
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Replies: 283
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:55 pm Subject: Re: Peak Oil : Scalability and Orders of Magnitude |
take exception to the mistaken belief that oil has a high EROEI.
In any other "sustainable" system, this is measured by adding all the inputs and losses to inefficiency, heat, etc.
With oil, we ... |
Topic: Peak Oil : Scalability and Orders of Magnitude |
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:04 pm Subject: Re: Peak Oil : Scalability and Orders of Magnitude |
Why worry about adding capacity "easily"? We'll be producing millions of barrels a day decades from now, transition hardly requires replacement of crude TODAY.
Go read Bartlett's calculations wit ... |
Topic: My Earth Shelter Home |
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 3:03 pm Subject: Re: My Earth Shelter Home |
| Water will not be an issue as there is a river, and several lakes nearby, and being in manitoba, it is just naturally quite wet. Drilling a well is quite easy and wil be no problem and there will be n ... |
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