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[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_Megaprojects]Wikipedia page on oil megaprojects

Yet another perspective:Brazil's state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PBR), or Petrobras, anticipates that the hydrocarbon production at its key Tupi oilfield will peak in 10-15 years, Chief Exe ...

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The reasons we engage in unsustainable activities in the first place.

the plane has a wingspace of 262ft from wing tip to wing tip (about the same width as the new A380 Super Jumbo Jet).

However, while the superjumbo can currently carry more than 800 passengers and h ...

This is the reason why I'm a doomer. There will always be some know-it-all obfuscator pretending to have a way to maintain our current unsustainable industrial civilization right until we have squande ...

With DC, energy losses due to parasitic capacitances are eliminated.

First we need to get the economists out of the way and their "science". Only then can we take the path towards sustainability.
As long as current economic thinking forms the basis on wich societies a ...

Study shows that water availability is a serious issue for hydrogen production on a large scale.
While the hydrogen economy is expected to be in full swing around 2050 (according to a 2004 report by ...

Peter Beadle, president of Greenjobs.com, cites estimates that the solar sector alone could employ 2 million people by 2020

And if US population grows at 0.9%/year, by then there will be 34 million ...

Only an unfeeling society could build the sort of world we now have, which stomps on individuals and nature in the name of greater power and profits.

[url=http://www.peakoil.com/post518109.html#518 ...

The ‘Alternative Scenario’ for future electricity demand is based on the Greenpeace/European Renewable Energy Council Energy Revolution report (January 2007) and takes into account the
extensive use ...

i have a better idea. we'll put a mouse in the wheel to assist the gravity engine. and then we'll build thousands more like it, with thousands more mice.

wait a minute. how are we gonna feed the ...

I think an important question to ask is the EROEI of this method. Production of aluminum seems to be highly energy intensive.

It takes about 94,000 BTUs to produce one pound of virgin aluminum. Fiv ...

shale oil now appears to be significantly cheaper than conventional crude

WOW. I honestly could have never seen that coming. Rolling Eyes

Natural concentration of U-235 in all Uranium : 0.7%
Concentration of Uranium in the Earth's crust:

So you're saying that to provide for all the energy needs of mankind we'd have to mine 3*10 ...