THE "DEATH" OF PEAK OIL

"Total world liquids production as reported by the EIA had reached 85.2 million barrels a day [in mid-2005] ... It briefly passed that level again in June 2006 and June 2008, though mostly was flat or down over 2005-2009 before resuming a modest and erratic climb since then. The most recent number (December 2012) was 89.3 million barrels a day, 4 mb/d higher than where it had been in May 2005 ...
But more than half of that 4 mb/d increase has come in the form of natural gas liquids-- which can't be used to make gasoline for your car-- and biofuels-- which require a significant energy input themselves to produce. If you look at just field production and lease condensate, the increase since May 2005 has only been 1.7 mb/d ... [R]ecent Saudi cutback may have been a deliberate response to U.S. production gains in an effort to prevent oil prices from declining ... [T]hose who assured us that Saudi production was going to continue to increase from its levels in 2005 are the ones who so far have proved to be dead wrong."

Zum Artikel von Prof. James Hamilton, erschienen auf EconBrowser (3. April 2013) »

Anmerkung: An dieser Stelle sei darauf hingewiesen, dass - trotz der verzweifelten Versuche, kurzfristig die Gesamtölproduktion ["All Liquids"] durch unkonventionelle Kohlenwasserstoffquellen zu maximieren - die konventionelle Rohölproduktion spätestens seit 2005 weltweit rückläufig ist - mit allen weltwirtschaftlichen und geopolitischen Konsequenzen.

GUERRILLA FOREST GARDENS

"The more radical implications of guerrilla gardening is that it calls into question the land use of today’s modern world ... When common, everyday people lose access to land, they become enslaved and dependent upon the industrial machine that is destroying human culture and the land base that supports all of us ... Guerrilla Forest Garden is not just a way to grow food, it is also a healing process and an act of nonviolent civil disobedience ... How much of that land, assuming that it is not harboring a toxic waste dump, storing munitions for imperialistic resource wars, or some other use that is mistaken for human “Progress”, could be planted with woody, food producing perennials? ... How much of that land are we going to need to help feed us once Peak Oil and energy descent make industrial agriculture a thing of the past? The easy answer – almost all of it!"

Zum Artikel von Andy Russell, erschienen auf Autornomy Acres (30. März 2013) »

EXXON PIPELINE BREAKS IN ARKANSAS

"The smell is unbelievable ... incredible ... and that is oil."

Zum Video von Drew Bames, erschienen auf YouTube (2. April 2013) »

AMERICAN SHALE GAS PROJECT IS A BUBBLE ABOUT TO BURST

"[The extraction of shale gas in the US is unprofitable and this] soap bubble will burst soon ... Currently, there aren’t any projects that we know of where shale gas production would be profitable ... Absolutely all the boreholes [are in the red] ... We are skeptical about shale gas."

Aussagen von Aleksey Miller [CEO von Gazprom], erschienen auf RT (30. März 2013) »

GOTTFRIED DER SELBSTVERSORGER

"Wenn ich gesunde Fische im Meer haben will, fängt das einfach dabei an, dass ich keine Abwässer ableite in den Bach. Wenn ich keinen Lärm mag, mache ich am besten selber einfach keinen Lärm - Punkt aus. Und wenn ich keine Atomkraft will, verzichte ich am besten auf Strom."

Zum Dokumentarfilm von Gregor Bialas, ausgestrahlt im ZDF (26. Juni 2012) »

BANGS AND WHIMPERS

"The point is, the financial system failed in 2008, and stayed that way. The faulty formula behind all modern finance is debt raised to the power of time, and only works when there is exponential growth in economic activity and energy. Energy's exponential growth stopped in 2005 due to resource depletion; three years later finance collapsed. Permanently. Since then we have been witnessing a global game of “extend and pretend,” which cannot be played indefinitely. If something can't go on forever, it doesn't ... What the Cyprus crisis exposes is just the tip of the financial collapse iceberg. Cyprus is small, far away, and by itself unlikely to crash the entire system, but you never know—icebergs are known to flip and crumble unexpectedly."

Zum Artikel von Dmitry Orlov, erschienen auf ClubOrlov (26. März 2013) »