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Some people use the phrases "peak oil" and "peak demand" interchangeably, but the two scenarios lead to entirely different outcomes. ... Books were written on the concept.
Welcome the new four horsemen of the apocalypse: climate, war, peak oil and cancer. ... Or, as I interpreted it in my book, "Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle": ...
Simmons published his book in June 2005, and according to Google Trends searches for the phrase “peak oil” peaked in August 2005, but spiked again 2006 and 2008 when oil prices jumped: (Click ...
A decade ago, the media was filled with stories about peak oil, numerous books were published on the subject (such as Half Gone and $20 a Gallon!), and even the Simpsons mentioned it in an episode ...
During the three years it took to write the book, there has been a small, but steady proliferation of peak oil-related art, cartoons, stand-up comedy, theater, songs, and even some peak oil poetry ...
He's the author of Peak Oil and the Second Great Depression, a 2010 book. He says the fracking boom has been so frenzied in this decade that drillers may have extracted the cheapest oil already.
In his 2004 book Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil, the Caltech physicist David Goodstein wrote that the peak of world production is imminent and that "we can, all too easily, envision a dying ...
Toward the end of “The Quest,” his sprawling book on energy, Daniel Yergin introduces an obscure 19th-century character named Sadi Carnot.
In 1956, M. King Hubbert, a US geoscientist working for fossil fuel giant Shell, projected — based on statistical modeling of ...
Get a peak oil book on Oprah’s book club and boom, your ranks quintuple. Simply being right, no matter how right you may perceive yourself to be, is not enough to produce change.
ALBANY — The last time Richard Heinberg visited the Capital Region in the summer of 2006, oil cost about $70 a barrel and gasoline was $3 a gallon. When he returned Tuesday to again talk about ...
The debate now centers not on if but when peak demand arrives. By at least one oil company's reckoning, it may already be upon us, but in any event, the era of declining oil consumption is in ...