Comments on: Peak oil: the world’s dirty secret bubbles up from the ground http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/08/peak-oil-the-worlds-dirty-secret-bubbles-up-from-the-ground/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:52:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: john phaceas http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/08/peak-oil-the-worlds-dirty-secret-bubbles-up-from-the-ground/#comment-21504 john phaceas Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-21504 I would have thought that serving as "George W Bush's energy adviser" was the actual definition of crackpot... I would have thought that serving as “George W Bush’s energy adviser” was the actual definition of crackpot…

]]> By: Alex Pollard http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/08/peak-oil-the-worlds-dirty-secret-bubbles-up-from-the-ground/#comment-21505 Alex Pollard Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-21505 I'm surprised that the fairly intelligent and subversive Crikey.com.au has taken this long to finally seriously engage with Peak Oil. More please. http://act-peakoil.org I’m surprised that the fairly intelligent and subversive Crikey.com.au has taken this long to finally seriously engage with Peak Oil. More please.

http://act-peakoil.org

]]> By: Chris Sanderson http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/08/peak-oil-the-worlds-dirty-secret-bubbles-up-from-the-ground/#comment-21506 Chris Sanderson Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-21506 Related to Peak Oil and the need to migrate our transport to Electriv Vehicles (EV's), is the need to buy 100% clean electric energy from our electricity suppliers to re-charge the batteries. However grid elctricity is also going to become much more expensive as we clean up the coal burning emissions. Fotunately decentralized Concentrated Solar Systems (see: http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Concentrated_Solar_Power ) should start to become available in the same 2-3 year EV timeframe for installation at homes and businesses. Their cost is expected to be amortised at around the same cost as as today's grid prices and will allow us to become 100% Carbon Neutral for home, business and transport. We just need our govt to provide a few tax incentives and fair feed-in tariffs as Hilary Clinton suggested yesterday that the US govt needed to legislate. Related to Peak Oil and the need to migrate our transport to Electriv Vehicles (EV’s), is the need to buy 100% clean electric energy from our electricity suppliers to re-charge the batteries.

However grid elctricity is also going to become much more expensive as we clean up the coal burning emissions.

Fotunately decentralized Concentrated Solar Systems (see: http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Concentrated_Solar_Power ) should start to become available in the same 2-3 year EV timeframe for installation at homes and businesses. Their cost is expected to be amortised at around the same cost as as today’s grid prices and will allow us to become 100% Carbon Neutral for home, business and transport.

We just need our govt to provide a few tax incentives and fair feed-in tariffs as Hilary Clinton suggested yesterday that the US govt needed to legislate.

]]> By: Chris Sanderson http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/08/peak-oil-the-worlds-dirty-secret-bubbles-up-from-the-ground/#comment-21507 Chris Sanderson Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-21507 To watch the experts discuss Peak Oil, its definition and consequences, just copy & paste the links below in your browser and choose ‘open’ (to listen/watch) or ‘save’ to your hard drive. Video: Extra Interviews from ‘A Crude Awakening’ documentary: Colin Campbell – Consultant to Exxon, Mobil, Shell, Total, etc http://plug-inaustralia.org/shared_files/Peak_Oil_Colin%20Canmpbell.avi David Goodstein - Author on Peak Oil and Vice Provost & Prof of Physics at California Inst of Technology http://plug-inaustralia.org/shared_files/Peak_Oil_David_Goodstein.avi Mathew Simmons – Energy Investment Banker & advisor to Bush http://plug-inaustralia.org/shared_files/Peak_Oil_Mathew_Simmons.avi There's more on the website...../Chris To watch the experts discuss Peak Oil, its definition and consequences, just copy & paste the links below in your browser and choose ‘open’ (to listen/watch) or ‘save’ to your hard drive.

Video: Extra Interviews from ‘A Crude Awakening’ documentary:

Colin Campbell – Consultant to Exxon, Mobil, Shell, Total, etc
http://plug-inaustralia.org/shared_files/Peak_Oil_Colin%20Canmpbell.avi

David Goodstein - Author on Peak Oil and Vice Provost & Prof of Physics at California Inst of Technology
http://plug-inaustralia.org/shared_files/Peak_Oil_David_Goodstein.avi

Mathew Simmons – Energy Investment Banker & advisor to Bush
http://plug-inaustralia.org/shared_files/Peak_Oil_Mathew_Simmons.avi

There’s more on the website…../Chris

]]> By: Robert http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/08/peak-oil-the-worlds-dirty-secret-bubbles-up-from-the-ground/#comment-21508 Robert Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-21508 My understanding of the definition of peak oil is when we hit the half-way point of reserves, not of production nor when consumption outstrips production. When I first started reading about this four years ago, credible commentators argued we had already reached that point. We can continue to increase consumption and production for many years, but if we're foolish enough to do so, the fall will be all the harder. We've used 50% or so of oil in the last 50 years at increasing rates, rates that show no abatement - the last 50% will be increasingly difficult to extract and at the end we may have very little to show for it. Nuclear power is fool's gold (and immoral) and renewable energy far more limited than fossil fues. Let's face it kids, we better start changing our ways very quickly or things will be very unpleasant. We could use these next decades sensibly and co-operatively to create a sustainable world or we can keep partying hard and wake up with a terrible hangover. My understanding of the definition of peak oil is when we hit the half-way point of reserves, not of production nor when consumption outstrips production. When I first started reading about this four years ago, credible commentators argued we had already reached that point. We can continue to increase consumption and production for many years, but if we’re foolish enough to do so, the fall will be all the harder. We’ve used 50% or so of oil in the last 50 years at increasing rates, rates that show no abatement - the last 50% will be increasingly difficult to extract and at the end we may have very little to show for it. Nuclear power is fool’s gold (and immoral) and renewable energy far more limited than fossil fues. Let’s face it kids, we better start changing our ways very quickly or things will be very unpleasant. We could use these next decades sensibly and co-operatively to create a sustainable world or we can keep partying hard and wake up with a terrible hangover.

]]> By: Chris Sanderson http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/08/peak-oil-the-worlds-dirty-secret-bubbles-up-from-the-ground/#comment-21509 Chris Sanderson Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-21509 Good summary of the Peak Oil situation. If you didn't have to be so cautious, you could probably have added that people like Mathew Simmons, Colin Campbell and other experts in recent documentaries such as 'A Crude Awakening' are now starting to sugggest that global Peak Oil production is probably starting to peak around now. Also worth pointing out that Peak Oil is converging with Climate Change to intensify the crisis and the urgency of the need to stop burning oil in our transport asap, which currently accounts for around 30% of emissions. Bearing in mind that it will take around 3-4 years minimum for govt and the auto industry to gear up for conversion to the Electric Vehicles (EV's) currently being developed by virtually all of the global auto manufacturers, we need to start preparing now. Consumers also need to start planning financially to migrate from internal combustion engines (ICE's) starting around 2010/2011, Good summary of the Peak Oil situation. If you didn’t have to be so cautious, you could probably have added that people like Mathew Simmons, Colin Campbell and other experts in recent documentaries such as ‘A Crude Awakening’ are now starting to sugggest that global Peak Oil production is probably starting to peak around now.

Also worth pointing out that Peak Oil is converging with Climate Change to intensify the crisis and the urgency of the need to stop burning oil in our transport asap, which currently accounts for around 30% of emissions.

Bearing in mind that it will take around 3-4 years minimum for govt and the auto industry to gear up for conversion to the Electric Vehicles (EV’s) currently being developed by virtually all of the global auto manufacturers, we need to start preparing now.

Consumers also need to start planning financially to migrate from internal combustion engines (ICE’s) starting around 2010/2011,

]]> By: Orin http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/08/peak-oil-the-worlds-dirty-secret-bubbles-up-from-the-ground/#comment-21510 Orin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-21510 Peak Oil is *not* when demand exceeds supply, but when global oil production reaches its peak point. There is a substantial difference between the two. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil Peak Oil is *not* when demand exceeds supply, but when global oil production reaches its peak point. There is a substantial difference between the two.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil

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