Oilwatch Monthly - August 2008
Posted on August 18, 2008 | Filed Under Our Future | Leave a Comment
The August 2008 edition of Oilwatch Monthly can be downloaded at this weblink (PDF, 1.34 MB, 26 pp). In this edition I have added more demand, oil stock and production revision data.
Figure 1 - OECD crude oil stocks from January 2002 to June 2008.
A summary and latest graphics below the fold.
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Latest Developments:
1) Conventional crude production […]
Re: Oil recovery factor question
Posted on August 17, 2008 | Filed Under Our Future | Leave a Comment
Yes. EROEI. Right now Energy Returned is not really considered by most people because different forms of energy have different, manipulated costs. When weRead full story
Re: The Oil We Don’t…. [Abandoning the Pernicious “Gardening” Hab
Posted on August 17, 2008 | Filed Under Our Future | Leave a Comment
… DIG? Digging is for lunatics….. Plant Comfrey. Comfrey, over time, sends roots many feet down, bringing back up to the surface all the good gear thatRead full story
Georgia Conflict - Open Thread #4
Posted on August 17, 2008 | Filed Under Our Future | Leave a Comment
Update
Medvedev Signs Georgia Peace Plan After Saakashvili (Update4)
The Georgian interior minister, Shota Upiashvili, said at a Tbilisi news conference that the Russians today carried out an attack on a railway bridge near the Georgian village of Grakali paralyzing the whole Georgian railway system.
Rail bridge destroyed west of Tbilisi - Reuters witness
KASPI, Georgia, Aug 16 (Reuters) […]
Fermenting the Food Supply - Revisited
Posted on August 17, 2008 | Filed Under Our Future | Leave a Comment
Modelling Biofuel Production as an Infectious Growth on Food Production
Biofuel capacity or production as a fraction of food supply for three different cases, along with sigmoidal (ie logistic) projections, 1998-2018. Plum curves show US corn ethanol processing capacity in service or under construction as a fraction of ethanol potential of entire US corn crop. […]
High-Tech Hitchhiking
Posted on August 16, 2008 | Filed Under Our Future | Leave a Comment
Have you ever stood at the bus stop watching hundreds of cars go by and wondered just how many of those cars are headed to the same place you want to go? Wouldn’t it be great if you could just stick out your thumb and get a quick ride rather than waiting 10 minutes for […]
The Washington Post Meets Peak Oil Lite
Posted on August 16, 2008 | Filed Under Our Future | Leave a Comment
http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3410:the-peak-oil-crisis-the-washington-post-meets-peak-oil-lite&catid=17:national-commentary&Read full story
short-termism
Posted on August 16, 2008 | Filed Under Our Future | Leave a Comment
I am getting a bit sick of the blathering about resources - my last post (below) I think addresses critical issues - that is we are wasting resources massivelyRead full story
Charlie Hall: How much oil and gas will increased drilling provide? Geology’s Answer: Not Much.
Posted on August 16, 2008 | Filed Under Our Future | Leave a Comment
Annual rates of total drilling for and production of oil and gas in the US, 1949-2005 (R2 of the two = 0.005; source: U.S. EIA and N. D. Gagnon). Since drilling and other exploration activities are energy intensive, other things being equal EROI is lower when drilling rates are high.
As oil prices increase and the […]
The Path from Petroleum Shortages to Electricity Shortages
Posted on August 14, 2008 | Filed Under Our Future | Leave a Comment
It seems to me that there is likely to be a very short path from petroleum shortages to electricity shortages. There are a lot of issues involved, from the fact that the fuels used in electricity production are themselves dependent on petroleum for their extraction and transportation, to the current state of the US electricity […]
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