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The Approaching World Oil Supply Crisis
A world oil supply crisis is looming in the near future, according to a growing number of energy analysts. This summer, Christophe de Margarie, CEO of the French oil company Total (one of the world’s...
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The Story of P(ee)
“P” is for phosphorus, the stuff of life, and “p” is for “peak phosphorus” by 2030, ecologists say, unless — presto! — pee can be turned into gold through modern-day alchemy. Unremarked and unregulated...
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Peak Oil and the Return of the Jet Set
Sitting atop the queue in my inbox is an e-mail from a travel company advertising a $736 roundtrip flight from Los Angeles to Auckland. Captain Cook discovered New Zealand in 1769; for the next 200...
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Perhaps We’ll See Peak Bunker Oil, Too
The last few years haven’t been kind to the shipping industry. First there was the chaos of summer 2008, when the cost of oil rose to nearly $150 per barrel. Prices eventually dropped, but only because...
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Oil is the backbone resource of industrial society, but the Oil Age will come to an end, someday. The pessimists say the world reached maximum oil production in 2008. Middle-of-the-road optimists say...
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WikiLeaks: Saudis Overstating Oil Reserves
On any given day, a story emerges in the press that requires a second look, and then a third. Though these stories often do not appear on the front page, they frequently pertain to an issue more...
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A New Source of Oil (for the 1920s)
The Bowie-Gavin process of extracting oil (June 1927 issue of Science and Invention magazine) As a non-renewable resource, we’re pretty certain that at some point we’ll run out of oil. But today—just...
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The Deluge
OIL SEEPING TO THE SURFACE of the lazy Kern River, just north of Bakersfield, California, first caught James Elwood’s attention in 1899. The state was in the midst of an oil boom, and Elwood wanted in...
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More Evidence We’ve Reached the Era of Peak Cars
We’ve all heard of peak oil, which the gallant knight Sir Fracking has slain for the time being. But in the United States, perhaps for all the rich world, we may have already passed into a related...
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The Free Market Is Abandoning Clean Energy
Remember being worried about peak oil? Start worrying instead about "peak solar." As Quartz reported yesterday, "global investment in clean energy is falling off a cliff … just as carbon emissions are...
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