tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post7243581593662143803..comments2024-03-28T12:17:44.126-05:00Comments on TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): The myth of "peak oil"Minnesotastanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-41561705405436781252013-08-19T13:41:22.589-05:002013-08-19T13:41:22.589-05:00Just name a few concrete examples of those vast so...Just name a few concrete examples of those vast sources of fossil fuels we allegedly keep discovering all the time, so I can show you how relatively insignificant they are compared to world consumption levels (and how downright tiny compared to past discoveries).antredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13471717424499982664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-35390533075897166892013-03-07T21:06:45.640-06:002013-03-07T21:06:45.640-06:00I am old enough to remember hearing that nuclear e...I am old enough to remember hearing that nuclear energy would render electricity "too cheap to meter". There is always a utopian pipe dream available for dissemination.Petenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-20760247648303299562013-03-07T04:36:03.317-06:002013-03-07T04:36:03.317-06:00By the time we run out of oil the fracking will ha...By the time we run out of oil the fracking will have poisoned so much land there will be few places to live and little water to drink.<br />Gelvan Tullibole 3rdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09014788762267613635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-56454149712477059942013-03-07T01:53:39.784-06:002013-03-07T01:53:39.784-06:00The excerpt contains the key fact that will eventu...The excerpt contains the key fact that will eventually manifest as "peak oil." That is -- "The oil that’s left is just more difficult, and therefore more expensive, to get to..."<br /><br />There comes a point when the "cheap and easy" oil is mostly gone and it's just makes sense to use other sources of energy that are relatively cheaper. <br /><br />And, yes, the costs should include externalities, but they won't be counted unless policy forces them to be counted. <br /><br />And, yes, after peak oil there is enough coal and other fossil fuels to delay "peak fossil energy" for a looong time, assuming we are not wise enough to phase out of fossil energy to save the planet.Dougohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16439779634103149937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-24408874548116059672013-03-06T16:21:08.205-06:002013-03-06T16:21:08.205-06:00We'd be better off if we were peaking fossil f...We'd be better off if we were peaking fossil fuels. We're too short-sighted, apparently, to make the inevitable long term move to renewable energy before we do even more severe damage to this planet's climate.BJ Nichollshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04525256614467299544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-78670772114414658312013-03-06T13:01:55.263-06:002013-03-06T13:01:55.263-06:00The fact of peak oil is indisputable, the only thi...The fact of peak oil is indisputable, the only thing in question is the timing. You cannot consume a finite resource without that consumption hitting a peak one day. Saying otherwise is like saying the population of earth has always been rising, so we must assume it will always continue to rise. <br /><br />Fossil fuel production may be entering an unstable plateau where prices interact in complex ways with demand, and ability to fund new sources, but as APC mentions above, the cost to the global climate may become overwhelming.Anthonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-82244102366930531342013-03-06T09:58:09.195-06:002013-03-06T09:58:09.195-06:00So no mention of the externalities, the byproducts...So no mention of the externalities, the byproducts of harvesting and burning it all? I thought that was the basis of "peak oil" — that the costs of extracting it and burning it became uneconomical, that there was none left. Much of what we do, how we live, is predicated on cheap energy. If we ignore externalities like climate change, do we really the cost? a progressive crankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05135136349294909242noreply@blogger.com