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Weren't people posting predictions for 2005 at the end of 2004? Why not just get those and cut-paste them into this thread? Or better yet, just cross-reference? It would save lots of time. They'd b ...

Hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah. I love it when people refer to themselves as "doomers." Or "cornucopians." I also find it strange that people refer to themselves as "peak oilers." My ...

Trespam wrote:
My point--obnoxious as it is--is that there is a lot of noise, and a lot of people with barely any credentials at all posting their pet theories about social darwinism and peak oil and ...

Doomers have good imaginations. Whenever the date of doom moves out, they are able to imagine all kinds of reasons for this to have happened this particular time, but why it won't apply next time.
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All of which leads me to believe that peak oil, when it occurs, will actually resemble more of a long plateau - one in which transitions to new sources can be managed without major shocks or disruptio ...

My first employer built and ran the original internet (ARPANET)

Wonderful! Lets open a tread "memories from the war"! Smile

Hmmm... Did you actually have an account on ArpaNet? In that case I bow ...

Is something really big going to happen? Should we all be afraid? As a child of the nuclear age, with air raid sirens and duck-and-cover drills, climbing under my desk, I'd say that the fearful here ...

Here's a question though that I'd like to have answered. I'm sure it's out there. Can anyone provide me with a paper or study that looks at the entire globe, looks at the geology of where oil should ...

Perhaps the survivalists are just to busy drooling and chit-chatting over the multi-car pileup that is Katrina. And now they're moving on over to the Rita thread to do the same.

I just delivered dinner to a guy who has decided to stay... on a boat.

Worst is that he is compelling his 16 year old ward to stay with him...

What an asshole.

But I'm sure people will cooper ...

I agree with the comment that OPEC reserves are unknown. And I think a good summary of the problems with modeling, in general, are summarized in the Conclusions section of "Oil Production in the Lower ...

So, I now believe that complete and total collapse is most likely averted (at least for a few more decades, anyways).

So, why don't I feel better ? Sad

Because you've been watching an alcoholic w ...

I am writing my third paper with Prof. Reynolds and mine (and his) understanding is that Hubbert curves are geological/economic in nature, not purely geological. However, this does not change the fact ...

I've been reading Douglas Reynolds compilation of papers entitled "Scatiry and Growth Considering Oil and Energy: An Alternative Neo-Classical View." The set of papers available in it can be read her ...

A middle ground must be found. Oil will come out and it will be depleted. All that we must resolve is what will be done with the oil, and where civilization will proceed after it is no longer oil-base ...