Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 9:41 pm Post subject: Article Re Hubbert's 1956 Seminal Peak Oil Paper&Speech
While this story is not new, and is covered in other sources, it's still an interesting article:
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Hubbert was invited to give a broad-brush picture of the overall world energy situation, including the state of U.S. energy resources, at the spring meeting of the Southwest Section of the American Petroleum Institute. Driving from Houston, he and his wife went to the Plaza Hotel in San Antonio to drop off 500 copies of his talk for distribution at the meeting. “To my surprise, I found myself surrounded by the petroleum press, wanting to know, was this paper going to be given? I said, ‘Why, certainly.’
“But it was perfectly obvious, there was something going on that I didn’t know about, and I was furious. The press, all the gas journals, various petroleum journals… the oil reporters… In fact, I was so angry that I refused to go back to my hotel… my wife and I had dinner and went to a motion picture, and we didn’t get back to the hotel room until around midnight. And then the next morning, when the meeting was opening, the program consisted of the Mayor of San Antonio giving an address of welcome. I was the next speaker, when I got a signal calling me off the platform,” Hubbert recalled in a 1989 interview.
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Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 12:22 am Post subject: Re: Article Re Hubbert's 1956 Seminal Peak Oil Paper&Spe
Thanks!
Deffeyes wrote of Hubbert being a bit irascible; also how he described his experience teaching as "interesting." Deffeyes asked a student of Hubbert's about the experience: "terrifying." _________________ Cogito, ergo non satis bibivi
I will not abide another toe.
Only portions of the ideas were groundbreaking; Hubbert had
written before, and some others, about some of the ideas.
The paper has footnotes, which you might be able to find
to determine what was new and what wasn't.
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