Peak Fracking

What the Frack? a short term, toxic bubble fracking is a toxic, desperate effort to maintain natural gas and petroleum supplies. Conventional oil peaked in the USA in 1970 and conventional natural gas peaked in 1973. Fracking has not raised domestic oil production above this level, although the conventional natural gas peak has been surpassed, […]

Iraq’s Toxic Conflict

In Iraq, thirty years of armed conflict has killed hundreds of thousands of people, wounded countless more, displaced millions and laid cities and towns to waste. Amongst all of this death and destruction, there is an often-overlooked victim whose harm has far reaching consequences: The environment. Whilst Iraq’s environment has suffered from degradation due to […]

Peak oil is back and better than ever

Back when oil prices were high, people were talking a lot about peak oil supply — the possibility that we’d run out of new sources of crude oil eventually. But now people are talking about peak oil demand — the possibility that we’ll just stop using the stuff as we come up with better options. Most recently, […]

Solar ERoEI Is Actually Really, Really, Really Good

Myth: solar energy has low, even counterproductive, energy return on energy investment (ERoEI) Short answer: Actually, solar energy has superb energy return on energy investment (ERoEI) — 1 to 4 years, according to the US National Renewable Energy Lab, or 1 to 2.5 years in Europe, according to the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany. The terms “energy payback” and “energy […]

The Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Shifting, Poles May Flip: “This Could Get Bad”

“The shield that protects the Earth from solar radiation is under attack from within. We can’t prevent it, but we ought to prepare…” is the ominous sub-headline of a worrisome new report that shows scientists around the world fearing that the earth’s magnetic field is shifting, with potentially disastrous consequences for mankind. “When next the […]

Richard Zeits On Ten Million BOPD And What It Means For The US, Saudi Arabia

I have a fairly long post with updates regarding all the hand-wringing about “decreased conventional discoveries” and how that will lead to a scarcity of oil in the “near future.” Some refer to this as “peak oil.” Richard Zeits has an incredibly good column today over at SeekingAlpha further suggesting that “peak oil” will be […]

How Big a Disaster Can Climate Change Be?

    Above, you can see an image from the paper by Marsicek et al., just appeared on Nature. It shows a reconstruction from pollen records of the temperatures of the past 10,000 year or so, the “Holocene,” for North America and Europe. Note the black squares, showing how fast temperatures have been growing during […]

Exxon sees global oil demand plunging by 2040

Exxon Mobil Corp said on Friday that it expects global oil demand to drop sharply by 2040 if regulations aimed at limiting the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on climate are fully implemented. An oil pump jack is seen at sunset in a field outside Scheibenhard, near Strasbourg, France, October 6, 2017. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann Under […]

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