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Aircraft and Lubricants after Peak Oil with Robert L. Hirsch
Robert L. Hirsch describes his new book about World Oil Decline. “The Impending World Energy Mess” In this question he discusses which industries will not benefit from alternative sources of electricity.
4 Comments on "Aircraft and Lubricants after Peak Oil with Robert L. Hirsch"
KenZ300 on Wed, 17th Nov 2010 11:58 pm
In 2008 when the price of oil went to $147 / barrel, airlines were loosing vast sums of money and going bankrupt. The great recession caused a temporary drop in oil prices and the added fees for baggage helped the airlines stay in business.
Going forward airlines need to become more fuel efficient and have a better pricing model.
The US department of defense is the largest user of oil for jet fuel. It is time to put the might of the US military behind biofuel production of jet fuel.
Our economic security and national security may depend on it.
nano on Thu, 18th Nov 2010 5:45 am
More fuel efficient eh? They’re already as efficient as they’re likely to be.
Peak oil happens. Oil price rises. Airlines go out of business. There is really very little more to say about this sequence of events. Search the peakoil.com archives. It’s been discussed exhaustively.
James on Thu, 18th Nov 2010 8:50 am
Why does the U.S. feel that it has to be the leader in everything? Our relentless pursuit of liquid fuels has only one goal, to make the U.S. the military might of the World. If we were to put all that energy into developing our nation, and to produce food, we would not have the time to be worrying about what other nations are doing. There are two big oceans that separate us from our enemies. They don’t have the military technology to come over here to take us over. We can beef up our defense capabilities so that no enemy could get through, and it would be so much cheaper.
DC on Thu, 18th Nov 2010 4:25 pm
The root problem is jet engines are inherently in-efficent-period.Im not sure fuel would be a priority for fuel-sucking jet-aircraft, as opposed to say, agricultral or other critical needs. Air-travel is not a ‘need’ in the broadest sense of the word. Global civilization can get along just fine with a much reduced level or air-travel, in fact, we should welcome it, along with the end of the gas-burning car of course….