For those of you West Wing watchers out there you probably got as much of a kick out of last night's episode as I did. Not only was the central theme about alternative fuels and the practical ...

We have taken 200 Mt as the ultimate production. The Hubbert linearisation of production is more reliable, having passed peak, trending towards 200 Mt. The US annual production of copper is ...

King Hubbert, a US geoscientist working for fossil fuel giant Shell, projected -- based on statistical modeling of known oil reserves at the time -- that global crude oil production would peak ...

First, it is too early to say that the data are not compatible with the Hubbert model since it may take a few years before the peak is clearly detectable in the curve. Second, the data are ...