Dueling forecasts: Why our energy future is actually a risk management problem
It is well to remember that none of people making forecasts can know the one thing they all desperately want to know: the future.
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The really, really big picture: There isn’t going to be enough net energy for the economic growth we want
[Many longtime followers of the Crash Course have asked Chris to update his forecasts for Peak Oil in light of the production increases in shale oil and gas over recent years. What started out as a modest effort at clarification morphed into a much more massive 3-report treatise as Chris sifted through mountains of new data that ultimately left him more convinced than ever we are facing a global net energy crisis–despite misguided media efforts intended to convince us otherwise. His reports are being released in series over the next several weeks; the first installment is below.]