looking at peak oil from a different angle

[donsu]

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13130-2124287,00.html

World 'cannot meet oil demand'

THE world lacks the means to produce enough oil to meet rising projections of demand for fuel over the next decade, according to Christophe de Margerie, head of exploration for Total and heir presumptive to the leadership of the French energy multinational.

The world is mistakenly focusing on oil reserves when the problem is capacity to produce oil, M de Margerie said in an interview with The Times. Forecasters, such as the International Energy Agency (IEA), have failed to consider the speed at which new resources can be brought into production, he believes.

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M de Margerie argued that the resources were simply not available. He said: “Take Qatar. How many projects can you have at the same time? You have more than 100,000 people working on sites. It’s a big city of contractors. Now they have the problem of having to build a new power plant to supply a city of contractors.”
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100,000 people working on oil sites in Qatar!

the bushmilhousegang owns Qatar

what's the price of gas now? what's the price of heating oil?

are you thinking of alturnatives? making plans?

[BlueEyedSon]

1. in the "big definition" of peak oil, that is included

i.e. supply not meeting demand

it's a consequence demand steadily increasing by a few percent year over year
and supply "peaking"

[Coastie for Truth]

2. I have a standard reading list for Peak Oil

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3. Jim Kunstler's "The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century" - a Malthusian book that is always cited by Progressives, Liberals.

4. Amory Lovins' "Winning the Oil Endgame" - always cited by Green techies and geeks like me.

5. Ken Deffeys' two books - "Beyond Oil : The View from Hubbert's Peak" and "Hubbert's Peak : The Impending World Oil Shortage" - good books.

6. Matthew Simmons' "Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy"

7. Michael Klare's two books - "Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum" and "Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict" - more politics and economics (and some "what really drives the colonialist imperialist goals of PNAC")

8. Anthony Evans' "An Introduction to Economic Geology and Its Environmental Impact" - just a good general read on geology of coal, petroleum, water.

9. John Newman's classic "Electrochemical Systems" (The "Bible" of batteries and fuel cells) - I taught from this one
:hi:

;) - OK If I had to suffer through 15 credits of this stuff I am going to list them--

10. "Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering" by Warren McCabe, Julian Smith, and Peter Harriott

11. "Transport Phenomena" by R. Byron Bird, Warren E. Stewart, and Edwin N. Lightfoot ;)

[BiggJawn]

3. I "discovered" Kunstler just this week...

He has a way of stating things without lapsing into the idiotic "I wish Oil was a HUNDRED bucks a barrel! THEN they'd do something about it" mouthings of the pimply Starbucks Philosophers you see so many of in GD.

I now have a greater understanding of "Peak Oil" and more importantly, unsustainable growth than I did when I first heard the phrase.
We're in deep doo-doo, DU...