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1998 worldwide natural gas production: 2273 billion cubic meters

2008 worldwide natural gas production: 3066 billion cubic meters

34.88% increase in production over the decade!

1998 worldwide coal production: 2227 MTOE

2008 worldwide coal production: 3325 MTOE

49.30% increase in production over the decade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Peak energy my ****.

If the figures aren't higher than previously, it's not a peak <_<

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If the figures aren't higher than previously, it's not a peak <_<

Oh, so increasing production is what peak oil is

Also decreasing production is peak oil

And a flat production is peak oil

Everything is peak oil.

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Iraq has potential, although oil prospecting/developing is surprisingly difficult even there when people keep kidnapping you and cutting your head off.

The former USSR has been heavily explored, and it's doubtful that there is much to find in central Africa.

Of course, if we are so awash with oil, why do people even bother with places like the above?

chances of getting beheaded in iraq now are about 1/1,000,000 and either way the chinese will go in anyway.... nothing stops oilwells and pipes. Most of Russia has not been properly explored either (you must mean the caspian sea oil which was heavily used...).

either way theres plenty of oil and other energy sources left...

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either way theres plenty of oil and other energy sources left...

That is the point peaky oiled face people ignore.

Even if oil declines by say 3% a year that is more than offset by the 5% increase in coal per year. On top of that we have a 3-4% increase in gas per year.

Plus we could massively expand nuclear to fill in any gap.

On top of all that we can reduce consumption greatly by simple things such as solar water heaters, which are simple and payback relatively quickly.

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That is the point peaky oiled face people ignore.

Even if oil declines by say 3% a year that is more than offset by the 5% increase in coal per year. On top of that we have a 3-4% increase in gas per year.

Plus we could massively expand nuclear to fill in any gap.

On top of all that we can reduce consumption greatly by simple things such as solar water heaters, which are simple and payback relatively quickly.

You have changed your tune - not criticising mind..

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Oh, so increasing production is what peak oil is

Also decreasing production is peak oil

And a flat production is peak oil

Everything is peak oil.

No. But your attempt to use increasing production as a rebuttal doesn't do what you intend. Hubbert's critics tried to use the same argument to prove him wrong about US continental production, as that production peaked.

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No. But your attempt to use increasing production as a rebuttal doesn't do what you intend. Hubbert's critics tried to use the same argument to prove him wrong about US continental production, as that production peaked.

Similar in vein to the arguement that house prices only ever go up :lol:

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My garage was plain out of petrol this morning so I topped up with a bit of coal and some uranium runs as sweet as a nut.

You do write some utter sh*te sometimes.

He was probably talking at a higher level than that...

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He was probably talking at a higher level than that...

Technically you can replace oil with coal, assuming sufficient coal. You just have to spend several 10s of billions of dollars and several years building a set of coal-to-oil plants.

You will note that this isn't happening much at the moment (I believe that China is making one or two).

As long as we use market forces to dictate energy policy we have the problem that shortages will happen, despite the theoretical availability of energy.

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1998 worldwide natural gas production: 2273 billion cubic meters

2008 worldwide natural gas production: 3066 billion cubic meters

34.88% increase in production over the decade!

1998 worldwide coal production: 2227 MTOE

2008 worldwide coal production: 3325 MTOE

49.30% increase in production over the decade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Peak energy my ****.

1998 uk average house price: £86,000

2008 uk average house price: £152,000

177% increase in price over the decade!

Peak house prices my ****.

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Technically you can replace oil with coal, assuming sufficient coal. You just have to spend several 10s of billions of dollars and several years building a set of coal-to-oil plants.

You will note that this isn't happening much at the moment (I believe that China is making one or two).

As long as we use market forces to dictate energy policy we have the problem that shortages will happen, despite the theoretical availability of energy.

Cells also seems to ignore the energy losses associated with converting coal to liquids or the increasing energy requirements for obtaining progressively more difficult to exploit fossil fuels.

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That is the point peaky oiled face people ignore.

Even if oil declines by say 3% a year that is more than offset by the 5% increase in coal per year. On top of that we have a 3-4% increase in gas per year.

Plus we could massively expand nuclear to fill in any gap.

On top of all that we can reduce consumption greatly by simple things such as solar water heaters, which are simple and payback relatively quickly.

No such thing as peak coal, gas and uranium then?

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You have changed your tune - not criticising mind..

I was never against solar hot water.

A lot of countries would do well to use them.

I was out in turkey not long ago and it seem like most homes had them. They didn’t look like your vacuum tubes but were dam hot to the touch. Was told they provide all the hot water a family needs. (not sure about winter)

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Cells also seems to ignore the energy losses associated with converting coal to liquids or the increasing energy requirements for obtaining progressively more difficult to exploit fossil fuels.

Yes, normal mined coal-to-liquids is a stop gap at best (ignoring the environmental impacts), which means it's probably what will happen..

Underground coal gasification with a liquid conversion stage above ground is interesting, if also extremely dangerous for the environment.

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Cells also seems to ignore the energy losses associated with converting coal to liquids or the increasing energy requirements for obtaining progressively more difficult to exploit fossil fuels.

I don’t think we will convert much coal to liquid.

I was thinking more on the lines of interchangeable in power plants and cars.

Gas can be used in cars or power plants.

Coal/nuclear can be used in power plants.

So oil is usually considered the fossil fuel that will see shortages relative to demand first. So what we would do is use gas in more cars to offset some of that. We could even siphon a lot of gas to cars and just use more coal for power stations or nuclear.

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1998 uk average house price: £86,000

2008 uk average house price: £152,000

177% increase in price over the decade!

Peak house prices my ****.

Hahha you stupid mofo

Relating it to houses you would have to look at the number of houses.

Has there been a crash in the number of houses?

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The parallel had occurred to me :P

Price and production are two different things. There are lots of examples of many centauries of increasing production with no “peakâ€.

Human population would be one.

Land use another.

Water use.

Hundreds of examples where production has just got larger and large.

And guess what. Energy too has been like that for at least 10,000 years.

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My garage was plain out of petrol this morning so I topped up with a bit of coal and some uranium runs as sweet as a nut.

You do write some utter sh*te sometimes.

The quality of HPC sure is going down.

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No. But your attempt to use increasing production as a rebuttal doesn't do what you intend. Hubbert's critics tried to use the same argument to prove him wrong about US continental production, as that production peaked.

Everything has to peak one day.

The important question is when it will happen, if the consequences are going to be terrible and most importantly if we will still be fine after the peak (ie at a lower level)

Currently we use about 15TW of power on earth.

I can tell you we will most definitely NOT peak at 15TW, nor will we peak at 20TW (equivalent to extracting ANOTHER 85 million barrels of oil per day).

I would go so far as say we will not peak until about 25TW at which point there will be little demand for more.

However if energy gets dirt dirt cheap (say solar PV becomes far cheaper than coal) then we could go all the way to 30-40TW before there is little extra demand.

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Everything has to peak one day.

The important question is when it will happen, if the consequences are going to be terrible and most importantly if we will still be fine after the peak (ie at a lower level)

Currently we use about 15TW of power on earth.

I can tell you we will most definitely NOT peak at 15TW, nor will we peak at 20TW (equivalent to extracting ANOTHER 85 million barrels of oil per day).

I would go so far as say we will not peak until about 25TW at which point there will be little demand for more.

However if energy gets dirt dirt cheap (say solar PV becomes far cheaper than coal) then we could go all the way to 30-40TW before there is little extra demand.

So how do you calculate this?

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