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MD posts:
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How to effectively present the facts of Peak Oil?

Most Americans seem to be numerically-challenged, so it is better to leave out the info on jillions of barr ...

Interesting thread. My take on the unibomber is that he is intelligent but lacks depth of historical and ecological knowledge, as well as being a failure in the socialization department.
His view of ...

Because I believe that with proper leadership, it is possible for a nation like the U.S. to execute programs that will greatly soften the impact of the decline in fossil fuel supplies. However, an enl ...

OilNotWell posts:

"But my point on calculus still stands. I have never seen predicting depletion calculated this way, even by the math intensive Laherrre."

In principle, one could. The practical ...

aardvark's Mar 27,2005 post is right on the mark. I have tried without success on other forums to get a discussion going on a reasonable national energy policy. Retreating en masse to subsistance farm ...

Lots and lots of facts. Lots of old ill-advised predictions that proved wrong, therefore today's predictions are probably wrong. Very little drawing of inferences through logic using the presented fac ...

This DVD is the ideal mechanism for introducing the peakoil problem to groups who are unaware and not particularly technically oriented. It is already reviewed at the link below but deserves placement ...

This site is kinda overwhelming with its thousands of posts, and ideas about what should be done at the national level are (for me, at least) spread too thinly to be sure I've read them all. I would l ...

Unless we are talking about simple heating of a dwelling, wood as a fuel can be very labor intensive and even risky without modern control systems and safety interlocks. Any system large enough to re ...

kpeavy posts:
Call it "Community Service"
For a misdemeanor you get sentenced to 100 kilowatts
For a class C felony, you get a megawatt.

Comeon guys. This is an energy thread, so even when we ...

Well, I haven't finished digesting it, but the study recommends increasing the R and D budget by $360 million a year for alternative energy sources.
Seems laughingly small in light of the size of the ...

The National Commission on Energy Policy has labored mightily for three years and has released its report "Ending the Energy Stalemate: A Bipartisian Strategy to Meet America's Energy Challenges", Dec ...

Whew! 15 pages of mostly beating the 2nd law to death. I have to admire MonteQuest's stamina in explaining it in the face of persistent misunderstandings.

I had hoped to learn something about conse ...

The sad part of this enormous wastage is that the depletion curve of natural gas fields is typically a plateau followed by a fairly steep crash, rather than the smooth tail-off of an oil field, AND th ...

I'll go for 2005.
I'm not sure that the time of the actual peak of production will mean that much. The actual shape of the curve is influenced by a number of factors. The pronounced Russian double pe ...