For a minute there I thought I had to get off my couch, when all the while the fact is we don't have to do anything much but keep things afloat for just a few decades more! In fact, we'd best shut up about PO, because if our offspring finds out we knew about it all along, they'll turn and wring our necks come 2036!
Joined: Oct 16, 2004 Posts: 1195 Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:39 am Post subject: Re: U.S. Army strategic report on Peak Oil confirms our fear
tsakach wrote:
Some recommendations in the report:
"a massive expansion in renewable energy purchases, a vast increase in renewable distributed generation including photovoltaic"
If the military is planning for "a massive expansion" in renewable energy, such as purchasing solar panels in vast quantities, it will only make it more difficult for the rest of us to obtain solar panels. Worldwide demand for solar panels is already in excess of the ability to produce them.
On the other hand, having such a large, rich buyer coming into the market with large guaranteed contracts, may be enough of a spur to improve on the design and increase the opportunities for new manufacturers and expansion of the existing ones. _________________ Kind regards, Katkinkate
"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops,
but the cultivation and perfection of human beings."
Masanobu Fukuoka
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:49 am Post subject: Re: U.S. Army strategic report on Peak Oil confirms our fear
It seems a strange co-incidence that both the Hirsche Report & this latest output should be quite so well informed and be coming from the DoD, not the DoEnergy.
Given that the destabilization of stock markets would be massively greater had these reports been from the DoE,
perhaps to the point of triggering the share price crunch and dollar collapse that seems increasingly inevitable,
it seems ever more likely that TPTB are intentionally informing the public of the position in a manner that it hopes will minimize damaging reactions.
Put it this way, if Richard Perle had not wanted these reports released, we'd never have seen them.
regards,
Backstop _________________ "The best of conservation . . . is written not with a pen but with an axe."
(from "A Sand County Almanac" by Aldo Leopold, 1948.
Joined: Oct 23, 2004 Posts: 5489 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:36 am Post subject: Re: U.S. Army strategic report on Peak Oil confirms our fear
backstop, this is indeed a turnaround. But if Pearle is really involved, it would be to drum up support for a grab of more ME oil fields.
Woolsey and others were outside the box - and now they are getting asked back in again.
Quote:
Outcome Grim at Oil War Game
Former Officials Fail to Prevent Recession in Mock Energy Crisis
By John Mintz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 24, 2005; Page A19
The United States would be all but powerless to protect the American economy in the face of a catastrophic disruption of oil markets, high-level participants in a war game concluded yesterday.
The exercise, called "Oil Shockwave" and played out in a Washington hotel ballroom, had real-life former top U.S. officials taking on the role of members of the president's Cabinet convening to respond to escalating energy crises, culminating in $5.32-a-gallon gasoline and a world wobbling into recession.
Joined: Dec 03, 2005 Posts: 657 Location: Vancouver, BC
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:24 pm Post subject: Re: U.S. Army strategic report on Peak Oil confirms our fear
DantesPeak:
Quote:
Well, at least now we know why it is so hard to get solar panels!
There is actually something here. PV is having a capacity issue right now that probably won't be solved for a couple of years. If a few big users come online we'll have a much bigger supply issue that could really effect the long term outcomes.
_________________ "Ninety percent of everything is crap."
-Theodore Sturgeon
Joined: Dec 02, 2005 Posts: 6284 Location: Oil-addicted Southern Californucopia
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:37 pm Post subject: Re: U.S. Army strategic report on Peak Oil confirms our fear
crapattack wrote:
...PV is having a capacity issue right now that probably won't be solved for a couple of years. If a few big users come online we'll have a much bigger supply issue that could really effect the long term outcomes.
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