First sentence of the abstract of an article by Gagnon, Hall, Brinker, 1999. Raises spectre of badly declining EROI.
Article added to ENERGY AND TRANSPORT PAGE.
Just a quick reminder … if your barrels require more and more energy to produce, you will need more and more barrels to maintain the same level of net energy.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: depletion, OPEC, production, rig count, Saudi Arabia
That’s not an encouraging sign for the “all is well” team. We might expect some lag-time, however. Look at the graph. From 2005-7 the rig count shoots up as production falls. Then production shoots up while the rig count plateaus.
Graph from Stuart Staniford’s blog.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: collision, liability, litigation, pedestrian, responsibility, safety, traffic
Excerpt from NY Post, Nov. 18, 2011.
Yet another pedestrian wakes up from a coma and sues everybody. Litigation is a necessary tool, and it is sabotaged a little bit for everybody who might really need it each time an errant pedestrian walks in front of a bicyclist, gets knocked into a coma, then sues everybody.
Bicyclists, watch for pedestrians, as they have a very hard time watching for you.
Chart from Carpe Diem blog.
But what about EROEI, that is, net energy of tight gas?
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: batteries, battery, electric vehicles, rare earth, Tesla
…according to its owner. Ouch..
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: batteries, hybrids, IIHS, safety, traffic
Hybrids are heavy, so they’re safer for those inside of them. The people in the other car, or on the bike, or sidewalk, on the other hand, get bludgeoned harder. It’s a zero sum game.
click for pdf — Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
Vilnius mayor gets serious about car in bike lane. Probably was just looking for an excuse.
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This is one of the strangest PR efforts. A store front in a highrise lobby lightly filled with pro-natural gas images and phrases, sponsored by Western Energy Alliance. But nobody is ever there, and it’s always closed. Want to ask what is their definition of clean energy.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: depletion, Nelder, renewables, transition
WHEN SHOULD WE PURSUE THE ENERGY TRANSITION? by Chris Nelder
“And it remains to be seen how much additional supply will balance out depletion in the coming years.”
That is the question. Or, at least, one of the big ones. But Nelder clearly feels that depletion will overpower new supply.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: China, energy, gas prices, Natural Born Drillers, oil prices, Paul Krugman, peak oil
…Although he does make other good points, like Yergin, in service of his argument of the day.
…Oil prices are up because of rising demand from China and other emerging economies, and more recently because of war scares in the Middle East; these forces easily outweigh any downward pressure on prices from rising U.S. production.
via Natural Born Drillers – NYTimes.com.
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