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Robert Hirsch on “The Impending World Energy Mess”

Robert Hirsch made waves as the 2005 author of what became known simply as the Hirsch Report, the first study funded by the US government on peak oil and its consequences. The experience of writing that report left him shaken at the consequences of peak oil. Now he says that in the next 2-5 years we’ll see world oil production permanently decline, a phenomenon “unlike anything faced by modern civilization.”

He talks about his new book, written with the same co-authors, The Impending World Energy Mess: What it is and what it means to YOU! It’s available at locally owned, independent bookstores.

Carl Etnier hosts.

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2 Comments on "Robert Hirsch on “The Impending World Energy Mess”"

  1. Andrew DeWit on Wed, 29th Dec 2010 8:22 pm 

    Bought the book, and learned a bit from the initial section. But I was dismayed to run into all the tripe on climate change and alternative energy. I thought Hirsch had a background working with Pentagon thinktanks, the ones that do their best to put scientific reasoning ahead of ideology, the conventional wisdom, and the blather from vested interests. All arms of the US military, and especially the Navy, are working on climate change as a national-security threat. And if renewables are as absurd as he insists, then he’d better tell the Pentagon, which aims at leading a renewable-energy revolution because the political process is dominated by the ideas that Hirsch recycles.

  2. Kenz300 on Fri, 31st Dec 2010 11:05 pm 

    Wind and solar power need economies of scale to increase production and reduce unit costs. Research and development continue to make progress at increasing efficiency and reducing costs.

    When wind and solar get cheap enough for the average home owner to put one in their home the transition to clean energy will grow significantly. The upgrade to smart grid technology and small scale energy production of wind and solar will increase local energy production.

    The Chinese have entered the wind and solar markets in a big way the last 5 years and are expanding capacity and reducing costs.

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