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- Oil choke points vulnerable to war, chaos, terrorism, accidents, & piracy
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- Peak Oil is Officially Here! World oil production peaked November of 2018
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- Rare Earth updates: recent research on why complex & intelligent life are rare in the Universe
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Tag Archives: crude oil
How will 500,000 products made with fossils as feedstock & process energy be created post fossil fuels?
Preface. It is quite likely that after fossils are gone, plastics will no longer be made, since they are incredibly complex – PhDs in numerous fields make them possible – and most kinds have been around for only 50 years … Continue reading
Posted in Biomass, Manufacturing & Industrial Heat, Oil
Tagged biomass, chemical, crude oil, distillation, feedstock, petrochemical, plastic
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Oil Infrastructure – pipelines, refineries, terminals
Sider, A. and Friedman, N. November 2, 2016. More than half of U.S. Pipelines are at least 46 years old. Building new systems has become harder amid opposition from landowners and environmental groups. Wall Street Journal. More than 60% of … Continue reading
Posted in Oil, Oil & Gas, Pipeline
Tagged crude oil, miles of pipeline, pipeline, refined product, service station
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