Shell announces shift to renewable energy, peak oil production in 2019
Royal Dutch Shell is accelerating its drive to lower carbon emissions while delivering value for shareholders… supposedly
Tag: Peak Oil
Our society is living on borrowed ancient sunlight
The fossil fuel companies have given us an abundance of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, coal, natural gas, and other fossil fuel products, that after 100+ years our society is rather confused. We think these fuels are endless, and there’s no obvious direct impact (other than slightly stinky exhaust). Therefore we…
M. King Hubbert: Techniques of Prediction as applied to the production of oil and gas
From http://rutledge.caltech.edu/King%20Hubbert%20Techniques%20of%20Prediction%20as%20applied%20to%20the%20production%20of%20oil%20and%20gas.pdf
Nuclear Energy and Fossil Fuels; M. King Hubbert, 1956
From http://energycrisis.biz/hubbert/
NCES 5.0: Frederick W. Smith, FedEx Corporation, Addresses National Clean Energy Summit about National Energy Security
FedEx CEO Fred Smith discusses foreign oil dependence significant threat to national and economic security at the National Clean Energy Summit, stating, “The United States oil dependence on imported petroleum — after weapons of mass destruction and terrorism — is our greatest single national risk.” After emphasizing the economic, military,…
Fracking, as a peak oil symptom, dictates complete financial collapse unless “we” wean ourselves off fossil fuels
What’s the driving force of the economy? That is, what is it that gives value to our money? Yes, the value of money is based on agreements such as international money exchanges through FOREX desks, but what’s the underlying force giving value to money? Let me suggest that it is…
California’s Monterey Shale not a fracking oil bonanza after all, says Energy Information Administration
California’s Monterey Shale is supposed to revolutionize oil resources in the United States, with perhaps 15 billion barrels of recoverable oil – recoverable, that is, through using the acidizing form of fracking. That much oil is pretty darn significant, that is if one wants to stay wedded to fossil fuels. …
Peak Oil means oil companies drilling in Arctic, and oil spills with no cleanup plan
World oil supplies – of the easy-to-get oil, anyway, are at their peak. Our appetite for oil products has led the oil companies to drill for oil in all kinds of places. Of course they drilled the easiest-to-tap fields first, because those gave the best return on investment (dollars spent…
Modern transportation causes grave problems for society
It may not look like it, but the ‘modern’ transportation system, especially as it exists in the U.S.A., is broken, horribly. As I see it, the car companies and others are working hard on the appearance that modern transportation systems are okay. That’s just the sugar coating designed to make…
MarketWatch claims Peak Oil and Climate Change activism will kill the oil companies
With oil companies racking up record profits it may seem absurd to suggest their days are numbered, and that investors should sell their oil company stocks by 2020. But that’s a suggestion in an article posted today on the MarketWatch website. That article in turn references no less an institution…
The tensions about Syria are about control of the Middle East, hence about control over access to Oil
You may have heard – there’s some sabre rattling in the Middle East, and this time there’s a serious risk of International War thanks to multiple countries deploying naval forces into the region, and the U.S. trying to act as a quasi-unilateral police force. President Obama is threatening the Syrian…
Peak Oil danger subsiding thanks to efficiency and alternate sources, says Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers
Is the Peak Oil worry a bunch of fluff, and it won’t happen? Maybe it’ll be like the Y2K crisis that had a bunch of us worried in the late 1990’s, but never amounted to anything? A recent paper by researchers at Stanford U and UC Berkeley suggest Peak Oil…
Dan Akerson on positioning GM as a solution for peak oil, resource exhaustion, national energy security and climate change
You don’t think of the head honcho of a major corporation like General Motors (GM) doing something altruistic like changing the company’s vehicle strategy just to save the polar bears. The GM shareholders hope their CEO will be making choices that improve the bottom line, and aim the company into…
President Obama announces initiatives for reducing dependence on oil
New policy proposals by the Obama Administration would reduce cost for electric vehicles, spur adoption of other fossil oil alternatives in addition to electric vehicles, especially natural gas powered big trucks. President Obama visited Daimler Trucks North America manufacturing plant in Mt. Holly, NC, to discuss his Administration’s all-of-the-above approach…
Fracking (hydraulic fracturing) required to keep cars moving?
The fossil fuel system is beginning to run into a supply crunch. Report after report shows that the conventional liquid fuels and conventional natural gas has entered a decline in global supply. That would mean we’d see supply problems at gas stations, that is if the oil and gas companies…
Our society is living on borrowed ancient sunlight
The fossil fuel companies have given us an abundance of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, coal, natural gas, and other fossil fuel products, that after 100+ years our society is rather confused. We think these fuels are endless, and there’s no obvious direct impact (other than slightly stinky exhaust). Therefore we…
M. King Hubbert: Techniques of Prediction as applied to the production of oil and gas
From http://rutledge.caltech.edu/King%20Hubbert%20Techniques%20of%20Prediction%20as%20applied%20to%20the%20production%20of%20oil%20and%20gas.pdf
Nuclear Energy and Fossil Fuels; M. King Hubbert, 1956
From http://energycrisis.biz/hubbert/
NCES 5.0: Frederick W. Smith, FedEx Corporation, Addresses National Clean Energy Summit about National Energy Security
FedEx CEO Fred Smith discusses foreign oil dependence significant threat to national and economic security at the National Clean Energy Summit, stating, “The United States oil dependence on imported petroleum — after weapons of mass destruction and terrorism — is our greatest single national risk.” After emphasizing the economic, military,…
Fracking, as a peak oil symptom, dictates complete financial collapse unless “we” wean ourselves off fossil fuels
What’s the driving force of the economy? That is, what is it that gives value to our money? Yes, the value of money is based on agreements such as international money exchanges through FOREX desks, but what’s the underlying force giving value to money? Let me suggest that it is…
California’s Monterey Shale not a fracking oil bonanza after all, says Energy Information Administration
California’s Monterey Shale is supposed to revolutionize oil resources in the United States, with perhaps 15 billion barrels of recoverable oil – recoverable, that is, through using the acidizing form of fracking. That much oil is pretty darn significant, that is if one wants to stay wedded to fossil fuels. …
Peak Oil means oil companies drilling in Arctic, and oil spills with no cleanup plan
World oil supplies – of the easy-to-get oil, anyway, are at their peak. Our appetite for oil products has led the oil companies to drill for oil in all kinds of places. Of course they drilled the easiest-to-tap fields first, because those gave the best return on investment (dollars spent…
Modern transportation causes grave problems for society
It may not look like it, but the ‘modern’ transportation system, especially as it exists in the U.S.A., is broken, horribly. As I see it, the car companies and others are working hard on the appearance that modern transportation systems are okay. That’s just the sugar coating designed to make…
MarketWatch claims Peak Oil and Climate Change activism will kill the oil companies
With oil companies racking up record profits it may seem absurd to suggest their days are numbered, and that investors should sell their oil company stocks by 2020. But that’s a suggestion in an article posted today on the MarketWatch website. That article in turn references no less an institution…
The tensions about Syria are about control of the Middle East, hence about control over access to Oil
You may have heard – there’s some sabre rattling in the Middle East, and this time there’s a serious risk of International War thanks to multiple countries deploying naval forces into the region, and the U.S. trying to act as a quasi-unilateral police force. President Obama is threatening the Syrian…
Peak Oil danger subsiding thanks to efficiency and alternate sources, says Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers
Is the Peak Oil worry a bunch of fluff, and it won’t happen? Maybe it’ll be like the Y2K crisis that had a bunch of us worried in the late 1990’s, but never amounted to anything? A recent paper by researchers at Stanford U and UC Berkeley suggest Peak Oil…
Dan Akerson on positioning GM as a solution for peak oil, resource exhaustion, national energy security and climate change
You don’t think of the head honcho of a major corporation like General Motors (GM) doing something altruistic like changing the company’s vehicle strategy just to save the polar bears. The GM shareholders hope their CEO will be making choices that improve the bottom line, and aim the company into…
President Obama announces initiatives for reducing dependence on oil
New policy proposals by the Obama Administration would reduce cost for electric vehicles, spur adoption of other fossil oil alternatives in addition to electric vehicles, especially natural gas powered big trucks. President Obama visited Daimler Trucks North America manufacturing plant in Mt. Holly, NC, to discuss his Administration’s all-of-the-above approach…
Fracking (hydraulic fracturing) required to keep cars moving?
The fossil fuel system is beginning to run into a supply crunch. Report after report shows that the conventional liquid fuels and conventional natural gas has entered a decline in global supply. That would mean we’d see supply problems at gas stations, that is if the oil and gas companies…
