The Great Oil Game: Resource Crisis in Russia?
Complex structures, such as states and empires, are always prone to collapse and they usually give little or no previous warnings.
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Saudi Arabia: The great oil game
With the recent increase in Saudi production, it is clear that they have something in mind.
Climate change: can the Seneca effect save us?
A Seneca shaped production curve would considerably reduce the amount of fossil carbon that can be burned in the future.
Peak Oil, Ten or So Years On
This blog began seven years and almost a thousand posts ago, and I thought it a good time to take stock.
The Collapse phenomenon
Michael Ruppert’s last book, first starring film role and ascendancy to the national stage in 2009
Changing Human Circumstances
The evidence suggests that we are facing the dawn of the Second Half of the Oil Age when oil and gas production decline.
Planet of the Space Bats
As my regular readers know, I’ve been talking for quite a while now here about the speculative bubble that’s built up around the fracking phenomenon, and the catastrophic bust that’s guaranteed to follow so vast and delusional a boom.
Big Oil’s Broken Business Model
Many reasons have been provided for the dramatic plunge in the price of oil to about $60 per barrel (nearly half of what it was a year ago)…
The Science of Peak Oil
One of the many barbs often pointed at peak oil proponents is that they are constantly shifting the goal posts. Peak oilers are accused of changing the definition of what peak oil actually means, therefore the entire concept of oil production peaking is rubbish. Far from a valid criticism however, this is actually a scientific virtue.
A review of James Kunstler’s The Long Emergency 10 years later
When James Howard Kunstler’s The Long Emergency came out in 2005, it was at once terrifying and riveting, like a nightmare whose outcome must be discovered despite the difficulty of braving through it.
IEA report: US shale oil growth practically zero in 2017
US growth is seen to decline to a meagre 160 kb/d by 2017. That is plausible given the high decline rates in tight oil fields.
If solar has gotten so cheap, why isn’t there more of it?
If solar has gotten so cheap, why isn’t there more of it?