by AdamB » Fri 05 Nov 2021, 09:16:31
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', ' ')The actual folks who work in oil production on this site have had a tendency to repeatedly point out that it's ECONOMICS that decides whether to produce oil at a given site, NOT thermodynamics.
You know what is sort of interesting? I've worked with more than a few hard rock folks in my day, and they have a tendency to disparage economics as well. Not project economics mind you, we are taught that in schule, but the pie in the sky, arm waving "this is the price 30 years from now and therefore all of what I say next must be true!" type stuff.
I just went along with the crowd as it were, if you think about it, it wasn't hard to find examples all around the economics world of people saying just stupid stuff, 180 degrees apart using the same "science", and each took themselves seriously.
So folks who like Baudila, who pretend that their half assed interpretation of something that isn't half assed (math, physics, fluid flow through porous media, the application of all of the above to nearly 2 centuries of oil and gas development in the US) is the only answer, aren't uncommon.
I must have been nearly in my late 40's before it began to dawn on me that there were principles in that social science worthy of consideration, and could entirely trump the relevance of the technical side in a heartbeat.
Plant Thu 27 Jul 2023 "Personally I think the IEA is exactly right when they predict peak oil in the 2020s, especially because it matches my own predictions."
Plant Wed 11 Apr 2007 "I think Deffeyes might have nailed it, and we are just past the overall peak in oil production. (Thanksgiving 2005)"