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Monday, December 3, 2007
Peak Possibilities
Time magazine recently ran an article on the "peak oil" concept - another case of the mainstream media slowly becoming more aware of the energy issues we are now and will continue to face. An excerpt:
"This isn't quite the same as saying that oil production has peaked and is about to start declining sharply--the view of the true peakists. In "peak lite," as some call it, the big issues are not so much geological as political, technical, financial and even human-resource-related (the world apparently suffers from a dearth of qualified petroleum engineers). These factors all delay the arrival of oil on the market, meaning that production would not so much peak as plateau. But with demand rising sharply, especially from China and India, even a plateau could be precarious."
Very true, and great to see in a major publication. View the whole article here.
"This isn't quite the same as saying that oil production has peaked and is about to start declining sharply--the view of the true peakists. In "peak lite," as some call it, the big issues are not so much geological as political, technical, financial and even human-resource-related (the world apparently suffers from a dearth of qualified petroleum engineers). These factors all delay the arrival of oil on the market, meaning that production would not so much peak as plateau. But with demand rising sharply, especially from China and India, even a plateau could be precarious."
Very true, and great to see in a major publication. View the whole article here.
Labels: energy, energy policy, oil companies, peak oil, u.s. energy policy
posted by Jamie Lang at 3:57 PM
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