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Re: Peak Oil- this says the world peaked-What do you think ?

Re: Peak Oil- this says the world peaked-What do you think ?

Submitted by athena on Sat, 04/19/2008 - 19:57.

Jon Cooksey is making a peak oil film to entertain and educate.  A lot of his interviews are available on his web site www.howtoboilafrog.com

And as Charlie Hall has said; it doesn't matter if we have reached peak oil because - supply can not keep up with demand, but that doesn't matter because, - exporting countries are not exporting as much because they are using it themselves, but that doesn't matter because - our Energy Return On Investment is diminishing. 

In the beginning, we used a barrel of oil to recover 100 barrels an EROI of 100:1  We are now down to an EROI of 10:1 and when it reaches 1:1 it doesn't matter how much we have in reserve. 

We need an EROI of 5:1 to maintain our complex civilization.  We already may be seeing signs of it simplifying as we prop up some complex parts and allow other complex parts like bridges and electric grids to fall apart. 

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Peak Oil- this says the world peaked-What do you think ? By: jstack6 (9 replies) Tue, 08/07/2007 - 16:42