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Re: Doomers and Bad Assumptions

Unread postby Plantagenet » Fri 29 Jun 2018, 16:36:56

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'A')nd just look at climate change....my prediction that the Paris Accords wouldn't do a thing to stop CO2 emissions was 100% right, and the main global warming predictions---accelerating sea level rise, accelerating ice loss, heat waves, forest fires, drought---are all right on schedule as advertised.

Yes, the doomers got ONE right.


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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', 'T')hings are getting worse and expensive and inconvenient on the scale of decades. But that's not doom.


Actually, if things get bad enough and expensive enough it IS doom. And the assumption that the rate at which things are getting worse will always be the same gradual rate of change as it is now is just as open to question as the assumption that the rate things are getting worse will greatly accelerate. We don't precisely know the rate at which things will be changing in the future .....but we definitely know for many enviornmental and economic problems in the US and the world the current trend is not our friend.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', 'A')lso, we're talking long term doom, on the scale of centuries. Not the next week/ next month / next year predict and re-predict on failure nonsense the short term Cassandras love to engage in for many years on end.


Thats what called a "straw man" argument, i.e. when you create a silly opposing point of view and then decisively demolish your own straw man.

I don't think there are a whole of doomers on this site calling for doom to occur "next week" or "next month" or even "next year." So the whole question of doom happening "next week" really isn't even an issue worthy of rebuttal.

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Re: Doomers and Bad Assumptions

Unread postby tita » Fri 29 Jun 2018, 16:39:47

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mmasters', 'W')hat other bad assumptions did the peak oil doomers make?

That mankind would hear them and change its behaviour (the BAU) to avoid whatever consequence bring peak oil. (this apply also to the IPCC)

The rate of extraction increased, the rate of consumption increased. We are more or less in the same dynamic of the beginning of the 2000's (but we have now smartphones, facebook and fancy electric cars). Still, americans are looking at rising gas prices as most of them can't afford EVs. The POTUS call on OPEC (and Russia) to increase production to ease prices. Michael Lynch is back at telling how Peak Oil is nonsense. India is set to increase its oil consumption at a fast rate... Crisis touch several oil producers (Venezuela, Lybia)

Yeah, it looks a lot like 2005, with small variations.
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Re: Doomers and Bad Assumptions

Unread postby rockdoc123 » Fri 29 Jun 2018, 17:01:27

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')S: This is the 20th anniversary of the first slick water frack job. The WSJ has written a nice bit on Nick Steinsberger---the man who invented the FIRST SLICKWATER FRACK JOB and changed the world.


Well, Rockman can jump in here and correct me if I'm wrong but so-called slickwater fracks were actually the first fracks ever done many, many years ago. They fell out of favor when the industry went to gels and high viscosity frack fluids which were the norm for many years. What Steinsberger did was essentially "reinvent the wheel" i.e. he simply got rid of most of the gels and polymers which was, in fact, the way fracks were done many years before (we were doing clean up fracks with very little additives to water 15 years before they were deployed in the Barnett). Of course, it hadn't been tried at that point in the Barnett so he gets credit for that and the surge of activity that it brought back to the shale industry but he didn't invent the technique. My bet is Rockman did a few slickwater or slickwater look alike fracks in his days in the Austin Chalk.
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Re: Doomers and Bad Assumptions

Unread postby Plantagenet » Fri 29 Jun 2018, 17:30:47

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he WSJ has written a nice bit on Nick Steinsberger---the man who invented the FIRST SLICKWATER FRACK JOB and changed the world.


we were doing clean up fracks with very little additives to water 15 years before they were deployed in the Barnett.


Perhaps you should contact the WSJ and see if you can get in on the credit. They seem to think the modern fracking revolution started with Nick Steinsberger who then was with Mitchell Energy.

DISH, Texas—Twenty years ago this month, a well was drilled here that changed the world.

Nothing at the time suggested the unassuming well in this rural town north of Fort Worth would hobble OPEC, the powerful oil cartel that had governed prices of the world’s most important commodity for more than a generation. Or that it would help turn the U.S. into a global energy exporter, or shuffle the geopolitical deck.

But it did all of that—and more. The well used hydraulic fracturing to crack the incredibly tight shale rocks below. It fired the first shot in the fracking revolution—a blast soon felt in Riyadh, Tehran and Moscow.

“I had no idea it would cause so much change. I was just trying to keep my job,” said Nick Steinsberger on a recent visit to the well pad. He was the engineer who obtained permission to try a new approach to completing the well that had been drilled a mile and a half deep into a thick grey wedge of rock known as the Barnett Shale.

Mr. Steinsberger, now 54, called the experiment “my slick-water frack.” It was the first commercially successful use of sand, water and chemicals, pumped into the shale under high pressure, to break open the rock and unleash the natural gas trapped inside. It was the beginning of modern fracking.

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Re: Doomers and Bad Assumptions

Unread postby Plantagenet » Fri 29 Jun 2018, 17:39:54

Michael Lynch writes (again) about the death of Peak oil
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Mr. Lynch notes (for the umpteenth time) that the predictions that peak oil would occur in 2005 were wrong.

He goes on to tell us we can rest assured that all is well now, and the specter of peak oil need trouble us no more.

Mr. Lynch does make one boneheaded mistake---he used to post here occasionally and in his new article he refers to this very website as peakoil.net instead of peakoil.com. Its good to know the man is not totally perfect and not always right in all he says, as his latest article would lead one to believe.

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Re: Doomers and Bad Assumptions

Unread postby rockdoc123 » Fri 29 Jun 2018, 18:59:22

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')r. Steinsberger, now 54, called the experiment “my slick-water frack.” It was the first commercially successful use of sand, water and chemicals, pumped into the shale under high pressure, to break open the rock and unleash the natural gas trapped inside. It was the beginning of modern fracking.


this is classic reporter not knowing the subject they are talking about.
slick water when it was first used by Steinsburger was just the original frack fluid sans large amounts of gel. As a consequence, it was basically water and a bit of soap which is exactly what was used for fracks back in the eighties and nineties prior to gel polymers and low vis fluids. If you don't believe me do a bit of research. I know I'm right....I was there when we used water with little in the way of additives to do clean up fracks.
And when they say "It was the first commercially successful use of sand, water and chemicals, pumped into the shale under high pressure, to break open the rock and unleash the natural gas trapped inside"
slickwater does not have sand in it. In the frack described by Steinsburger back then he was not using any propant just the regular fracking fluid with less and less gel and more water and no where near the pumping rates of modern fracks. The fact it is "slickwater" means it has very little in the way of "chemicals", basically just soap suds to reduce viscosity. It wasn't until much later that other chemicals were used to lower viscosity and help penetration which is when slickwater fracs really came into their own. Originally they were mainly used to lower costs (gels were expensive) but through time with the introduction of friction reducers wells could be pumped at much higher rates which allowed for larger sized fracks and greater IP rates.
Now they may be right that this was the first time water was used without gels as a fracking fluid in shales, but it had long been used without gels for carbonates and sandstone reservoirs both to clean up damage zones as well as in enhancing permeability in tight reservoirs. It was generally avoided in shales in the early days due to worries about the prescence of smectites (swelling clays).
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Re: Doomers and Bad Assumptions

Unread postby GHung » Fri 29 Jun 2018, 19:15:20

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'M')ichael Lynch writes (again) about the death of Peak oil
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Mr. Lynch notes (for the umpteenth time) that the predictions that peak oil would occur in 2005 were wrong.

He goes on to tell us we can rest assured that all is well now, and the specter of peak oil need trouble us no more.

Mr. Lynch does make one boneheaded mistake---he used to post here occasionally and in his new article he refers to this very website as peakoil.net instead of peakoil.com. Its good to know the man is not totally perfect and not always right in all he says, as his latest article would lead one to believe.

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There is a peakoil.net (http://www.peakoil.net) which has been around for years:

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Re: Doomers and Bad Assumptions

Unread postby GHung » Fri 29 Jun 2018, 22:28:08

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'P')eakoil.net. Blah.

WTF does greenwashing have to do with overshoot and decline? Not just oil, but phosphorus cobolt rare earth metals H3 and a host of other critical minerals and nutrients that are used up and gone. All the permaculture dreams will not bring back the earth


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Re: Doomers and Bad Assumptions

Unread postby ralfy » Sat 30 Jun 2018, 06:59:32

Some assumed that oil price would soar and stay high but didn't realize that economies would crash if that happened.

Also, others select one crisis and ignore the others, not realizing that they amplify each other.
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Re: Doomers and Bad Assumptions

Unread postby ralfy » Sat 30 Jun 2018, 07:02:02

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mmasters', 'I') can think of two.

1) Ghawar is tapped out and (2) technology couldn't help us get past peak oil.

What other bad assumptions did the peak oil doomers make?


The effects of peak oil take place even before oil sources are tapped out. Also, technology hasn't helped us get past peak oil, especially given the point that oil production per capita (which is a more logical metric) peaked back in 1979.
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Re: Doomers and Bad Assumptions

Unread postby onlooker » Sat 30 Jun 2018, 07:56:58

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')lso, technology hasn't helped us get past peak oil,

No, in fact it has sped up the depletion process and thus reduced the time period at which we arrive at the stage when the production of oil is not economically viable
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Re: Doomers and Bad Assumptions

Unread postby asg70 » Sun 01 Jul 2018, 12:50:33

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'M')ichael Lynch writes (again) about the death of Peak oil
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Mr. Lynch notes (for the umpteenth time) that the predictions that peak oil would occur in 2005 were wrong.

He goes on to tell us we can rest assured that all is well now, and the specter of peak oil need trouble us no more.


Good article. For once, Plant has made a valid contribution to the site.

BTW, with so little activity here it's hardly worth mentioning this site exists anymore.

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Re: Doomers and Bad Assumptions

Unread postby Plantagenet » Sun 01 Jul 2018, 14:06:57

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('asg70', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'M')ichael Lynch writes (again) about the death of Peak oil
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Mr. Lynch notes (for the umpteenth time) that the predictions that peak oil would occur in 2005 were wrong.

He goes on to tell us we can rest assured that all is well now, and the specter of peak oil need trouble us no more.


Good article. Plant has made a valid contribution to the site.


Thank you, asg/mos/ennui.

But I think Mr. Lynch and also those posters here endorsing the idea that "technology has helped us get past peak oil," are celebrating prematurely.

There is no doubt technology has DELAYED peak oil. The predictions by Hubbert that the US peaked in 1970 and by Colin Campbell and Ken Deffeyes and others that global peak oil would occur ca. 2005 are clearly wrong, and the development of tight shale oil resources using improved technology get the credit for proving them wrong.

But DELAYING peak oil isn't the same as "getting past it." DELAYING peak oil just means we've postponed peak oil to some future date thanks to developing tight shale oil resources. But we're still going to hit peak oil. Its a finite resource and we're using it up. We're not past peak oil at all......its inevitable that it is going to occur sometime in the future.

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Re: Doomers and Bad Assumptions

Unread postby asg70 » Mon 02 Jul 2018, 14:47:27

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '
')But DELAYING peak oil isn't the same as "getting past it.


The world really is about to end because I actually agree with this as well.

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Re: Doomers and Bad Assumptions

Unread postby kublikhan » Mon 02 Jul 2018, 18:56:56

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'S')o how about Spike's Shortonoil's assertion that oil will always be cheaper? What happened to that brilliance? How about those bad assumptions? Pretty bad, huh?
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