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Tag Archives: decline rate
Net Energy Cliff Will Lead to Collapse of Civilization
The remaining oil is poor quality, and the energy to get this often remote oil so great that more and more energy (blue) goes into oil production itself, leaving far less — the grey area — available to fuel the … Continue reading
IEA 2018 World Energy Outlook: Peak oil is here, oil crunch by 2023
Preface. Excerpts from the cleantechnica article below make it clear why there is likely to be a supply crunch as soon as the early 2020s, and the investment implications. Here’s what I’ve gleaned from other summaries of the report. Although … Continue reading
Posted in Investment, Oil & Gas Fracked, Peak Oil
Tagged decline rate, IEA 2018, oil discoveries, peak oil
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Transportation: How long can we adapt before we fall off the Net Energy Cliff?
Preface. There are too many factors besides geological depletion to predict a future timeline of collapse. Plus each region will be more or less affected by each factor, sooner or later as well. This is a unique crash – there … Continue reading