Food Production Must Double in 30 Years

The world will need to double food production within the next three decades in order to feed a rapidly growing and increasingly affluent population.  A United Nations report says reaching that goal will require major increases in intensive, high-efficiency livestock operations for both meat and dairy production. The report concedes that intensive livestock operations can […]

The Most Important Resource for Our Future: Inexpensive Oil

Our economy runs on oil. Most of the tractors used for growing food run on oil. Nearly all of today’s cars and trucks run on oil. It is popular to talk about changing to some other fuel, but the practicalities are that any such change will be very slow. There is a huge cost associated […]

It’s 2035: print some energy and drink the sea

If the internet took you by surprise, imagine what might be around the corner… Extrapolation can get you down. How often do you hear sentences beginning with the dreaded phrase, “On present trends…” followed by some gloomy prediction of diminishing reserves of this, soaring prices of that…? So at times like these, it’s worth remembering […]

The US obsession with energy imports and why Europe doesn’t sweat it

In this US election year, nearly every politician campaigning at the federal level, no matter the party, wants to improve “energy independence” and “energy security.” The catchphrases invoke American can-do-ism and let candidates inject the slightest economic and foreign policy knowledge into their pitches without having to get bogged down in the details. It’s almost […]

Gail Tverberg: ‘Oil Supply Limits and the Continuing Financial Crisis’ paper

I was an invited speaker at the “7th Biennial International Workshop ‘Advances in Energy Studies,’” in Barcelona, Spain in October 2010. Afterward, I wrote a peer-reviewed academic paper related to my talk called, “Oil Supply Limits and the Continuing Financial Crisis.” It now has been published in the January issue of Energy. It is available […]

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