Wikileaks shows peak oil is a reality

drc

Not to worry. Wasn't there something in the news recently about a British made alternative to oil which will solve all our problems???

PeterZ_2

RenovationMan wrote: »

But what use have you put this research to? I would also ask this of the other 'doomsters' on this forum. Forgive me if I am wrong, but you all seem to enjoy scaremongering about everything from peak oil to the fall of Western Civilisation yet dont seem even have the courage of conviction to even make the slightest preparation.

I'm not a doomster and yet I bet that I am probably better prepared for the worst than most of you. Anyone would think you dont believe your own rhetoric and that your simply trying to frighten people?

I think you are too quick to label everyone as doomsters.

People need to understand the problem first and then take action to do something about it. The real worry is those who just bury their heads in the sand.

Some things we can do as individuals - reduce consumption, buy a more ecomonical car etc.

Some things need to be done at a collective/policital level and are much harder to achieve - e.g. nuclear power stations, wind farms, tidal power etc

I'm positive about the future, as more people become aware of the issues we face then the better our chances of being able to do something about it.

Asheron

I have already told you $150-$200 confessed by an Elite on his death bed check my older Threads

Of course they will lie and make you think its because of Peak Oil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPeksXnhOk

StevieJ

I was listening to this retired fusion scientist on the radio, he reckons that we will have fuel from fusion within 30 years. I hope he is correct.

A dramatic Cold War mission to Moscow, a close encounter with Colonel Gaddafi, and the quest to build a man-made Sun…it was all in a day's work for retired Culham scientist Dr Mike Forrest.
All of this and more are described in Mike's memoirs, Lasers Across the Cherry Orchards, which have just been published. The book tells the story of his 50-year career in nuclear fusion.

http://www.ccfe.ac.uk/news_detail.aspx?id=124

pop_gun

fusion and thorium are in the category "not in our great great grand children's lifetime".

realistically we're looking at renewables to make ammonia through electrolysis. methane from
our waste material is another option.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11433162

posh*spice

Many think we are already at Peak oil. According to the IEA peak production was 2006.

This is what peak oil looks like in the capital.

Quarter of car owners driven off the road by rising prices


The rising cost of fuel and insurance is forcing one in four London drivers off the roads, a study showed today.
New research shows that 24 per cent of motorists in the capital have given up their car over the past 12 months.
By abandoning their car drivers save an average total of £2,009 a year in motoring costs such as tax, insurance, fuel, parking and maintenance. The research, carried out by car rental provider Sixt UK, also showed that "London taxes" such as the congestion charge are a big motive to stop using cars in the capital.
Nearly one in 20 Londoners said they would consider giving up their car to avoid paying the charge, while 70 per cent said they had been hit hard by the rising cost of parking permits. The report also shows that the average Londoner uses the car for only four hours a week for leisure. Motoring groups said that while the cost of oil continues to rise, car use in the capital is likely to continue to decline.
Paul McLoughlin, managing director of Sixt UK, said: "The cost of owning a car for people in the capital -from maintenance, taxation, fuel and insurance - is proving to be a cost too far."

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23979573-quarter-of-car-owners-driven-off-the-road-by-rising-prices.do

Road_Hog

Peak Oil was being talked about as imminent when I was at school in the late '70s. There's plenty of oil left, it's just more expensive to get at, but of course as the price of oil rises it becomes more attractive.

Kohoutek

Road_Hog wrote: »

Peak Oil was being talked about as imminent when I was at school in the late '70s. There's plenty of oil left, it's just more expensive to get at, but of course as the price of oil rises it becomes more attractive.

"Peak oil" means peak oil production, not running out of oil.

StevieJ

pop_gun wrote: »

fusion and thorium are in the category "not in our great great grand children's lifetime".

realistically we're looking at renewables to make ammonia through electrolysis. methane from
our waste material is another option.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11433162

So you know more than the fusion scientist?

Road_Hog

Kohoutek wrote: »

"Peak oil" means peak oil production, not running out of oil.

I know what it means and we're still not on a downward trend, despite what people were telling me in the late '70s.

Like I said, there's plenty more oil out there, just more expensive to get it, but as the oil prices rises, it becomes more viable.