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The current situation is far too complex to draw simplistic conclusions based on "oil price signals" supposedly being driven by normal supply and demand. We're in the middle of an economic hurricane. There is money to be made, when there is blood in the streets. Economic hurricane? Take a...

hasn't the world been waiting around for permanent constraint long enough now for the concomitant price signal to be at least as much as it was, like, 4 years ago now? Or is our currently lower price the signal necessary for enough change to have mitigated use down even farther than the supply cons...

Interesting...peak oil about price. So would "peak" solutions be about mitigating price? Peak Oil is about supply capacity as well you know RGR. When that is permanently constrained due to the physical limitations on the wells then there will be a concomitant price signal. Well, I can't s...

No... Peak oil is all about flow rates. Sorry...just found this one as well. Peak oil is apparently about price. TER: Peak oil or peak cheap oil? BM: Peak oil means we’ve used up all the cheap oil. There’s plenty of oil around. It’s just going to get expensive from here. http://jutiagroup.com/20120...

This looks like great financial news for Ireland. :) "Providence Resources Plc, an Irish and UK company, has confirmed its Barryroe site, 30 miles off the Cork coast, should yield 280m barrels of oil. " http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-19889948 We are saved for another 3 days...

JavaScriptDonkey wrote:Will Iraq's Energy Boom postpone Peak Oil Again?

AGAIN!!!

This must stop!!! Good God man, the next thing you know, we'll have another peak oil, followed by a peak plateau, who knows HOW long this nonsense can continue!!

s. I'm afraid "getting RC started" on this constitutes its own punishment... Well yes :D but, However all this is distraction. I was calling for Antarctic Research to be sub contracted to other Antarctic researchers, not to Disney Corp. Are you suggesting that every other Antarctic resear...

AnOriginalIdea, it's not the middle of the decade yet. :roll: Of course it isn't. But some of those slides in the presentation were proclaiming some huge loss in capacity by 2010. I am curious, how all did that work out? Did all that capacity disappear back in 2010, or did something else happen? Of...

Indeed, that's the nature of the threat. So when do we get to see the presentation then, compared to what actually happened during the past 7 years, and either the lack of supply, rolling blackouts and side effects of the threat, or none of the threat materializing, and an explanation as to why? An...

The old slides are lacking the words I actually said - the threat was then (and still is today) all about the nuclear and coal decommission schedule and our growing reliance on imported gas. So when you wrote "threatened" on your presentation, what you actually meant was "I'm using t...

It's not "always a few years off in the future". It's been clear the the last 10 years that crunch is the middle of this decade. In the presentation you referenced, you stated that 50% of UK supply was "threatened". Apparently, that threat didn't work out so well, and now the UK...

A) is a 7 year cycle about right for recycling the same idea because it is longer than the memory span of those involved and B) how many more 7 year time periods can take place during which the expected cataclysm is always a few years off in the future? Conceivably, B) could take place for generati...

Indeed - I've been giving lectures saying much the same since 2005. The supply side facts haven't changed (nuclear decommission, coal closure under LCPD, North Sea gas depletion, slow renewables growth), however, the recession has helped the demand side. I suppose this begs the questions, A) is a 7...

biffvernon wrote:
Spot the fail.

They didn't include building more nukes.

Why do the police kick the shit out of their bretheren / neighbours / fellow humans? Silly question, but views welcome. How do you suggest someone get the attention of those raised in a society which has designed them to not have any? Use the same technique you might on an errant animal I suppose, ...