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Union of Concerned Scientists
Renewing Where We Live: What a National Renewable Electricity Standard Means for You (2003) (UCS)
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Holocene extinction event
Most biologists believe that we are at this moment at the beginning of a tremendously accelerated anthropogenic mass extinction.
E.O. Wilson of Harvard, in The...
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Peak Soil: Why cellulosic ethanol, biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America
VeraSun Preps for Bankruptcy
The Empty Tank by Jeremy Leggett
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The U.S. passed peak production of high quality coal in 1990 in the Appalachian and the Illinois basin. Production of sub bituminous coal in Wyoming more than compensated for this...
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Domestic production increases has limited ability to meet our future demands, given dwindling reserves
Conservation is a cheaper way to provide future oil compared to new oil drilling...
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Cumulative production is ~1/2 of cumulative discoveries
Cumulative discovery curve is sigmoidal
Cumulative production curve is exponential
Discoveries peaked in 1964
Production exceeded...
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Climate Model Links Higher Temperatures to Prehistoric Extinction
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The Whole Earth System
The ingredients of...
Sustainable energy
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Economic collapse is causing further exploration curtailment
IEA has calculated that more than $4 trillion is needed if the oil industry is to meet projected oil...
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Notes from The IEA WEO 2008 from the Perspective of Biophysical Economics
IEA report predicts 106 mbpd of oil production by the year 2030, growth of demand for oil at 1.6 percent per...
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Key to importing countries is world net oil export capacity
Export Land Model (ELM) assumes exponential production declines and internal consumption resulting in zero exports at the...
Life in a hot, hungry world
The world is entering a time of acute water scarcity. Cities now take up to half of the water once used to grow food and will redouble their demands as their...
Powering a Nation
A News21 project produced by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A New World Model Including Energy and Climate...
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Hubbert Linearization
Predicting the Past: The Hubbert Linearization
Does the Hubbert Linearization Ever Work?
A Different Way to Perform the Hubbert Linearization
The Hubbert Parabola
Industrial Mathematics and Statistics Modeling Workshop
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Oil megaprojects are large oil field projects to bring a significant amount of new oil production capacity to market
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Project delays may cause...
Models
VenSim
Mission Earth
A New World Model Including Energy and Climate Change Data
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Biodiversity and Global Change Lab
InVEST: Integrated...
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Risks from oil depletion (see: The Oil Crunch, securing the UK's energy future)
Shell expects:
Energy demand will increase for decades
"Easy oil" supplies cannot meet this demand...
Natural Gas
U.S. Gas Production Seen Sliding for 4 Years
U.S. production of natural gas, the most widely used furnace fuel in the world’s largest economy, may tumble through 2012 as low prices...
How Long Before Uranium Shortages?
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New nuclear power plants will take a minimum of 10 years to bring on line which is not fast enough to mitigate peak oil or climate change
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Peak Oil: Facts At Your Fingertips
Peak Oil Primer: The Oil Depletion Analysis Center
PEAK OIL: MYTH OR REALITY?
(see:The Oil Crunch, securing the UK's energy future)
There is no...
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OPEC discoveries spiked in mid-1980's
Claimed reserves are nearly flat except at spike, implying that discoveries exactly offset production
In 1983, OPEC pegged production to claimed...
American opinion of global warming
Just what is it with evangelical Christians and global warming?
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Peak Oil - Whom to Believe? Part One - "There's Plenty of Oil, CERAiously"
"Peak Oil" -...
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Earth's natural wealth: an audit (New Scientist)
Platinum is a vital component not only of catalytic converters but also of fuel cells - and supplies are running out.
It has been...
Energy
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Solar
In spite of the long-term attention and interest paid towards solar energy production, it is still a minuscule percentage (approximately 1%) of domestic energy production. However, compared...
Prologue - The two great oversights
Geologic time periods: Carboniferous (350-300 million years ago) Geologic time scale: Forests grew so thick that dead trees and other plants built layers of...
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Joules, BTUs, Quads—Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
The International Energy Agency predicts that oil...
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Limits to Growth
A New World Model Including Energy and Climate Change Data
ACCOUNTING FOR GROWTH: THE ROLE OF PHYSICAL WORK
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Note: 40e9 bbl / 85 Mbd = 470 days
Have We Peaked? (Matt Simmons)
Hydraulic Fracturing 101
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Part 1: The Science of Oil and Peak Oil
Part 2: Oil as a Liquid Fuel and Expected...
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Offshore Production
Offshore Drilling Debate
Legislation that would remove the ban on offshore drilling is now being debated in Congress (9/17/2008)
The area involved is a band between 50 and 100...
Top Exporting Nations (to the U.S.)
Canada is the number 1 supplier of oil to the US - 2.5 million barrels per day - about 20% of US imports come from Canada.
More than Saudi (1.5 mbpd), Mexico...
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