On the Brink -- What Happens After Peak Oil? [Edition 2]
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PEAK oil is the future time and place where the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction has been reached, after which the rate of production enters terminal decline and from where, it is said, the world implodes into global crisis, war and probably the eventual death of the planet.
Peak oil theorists, meanwhile, are infinitely more dangerous: generally mad, scaremongering types or representatives of hopelessly conflicted vested interest.See the full content of this document
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On the Brink -- What Happens After Peak Oil? [Edition 2]
So this month's report from a Government think-tank of leading academics and technocrats, entitled Global Oil Depletion, was not only scary but also scarily under-reported.
The view of the Imperial Collegebased UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) is that there...See the full content of this document