Many readers will know about the claim that a frog plopped into boiling water will hop right back out if it can, while one put into cold water which is then slowly […]
China Wind Industry and Power Integration | The Energy Collective
Wind is China’s fastest growing renewable energy resource. In 2012, 13 gigawatts (GW) were added to the system, and incremental wind electricity production exceeded coal growth for the first time ever. In […]
GDP Growth must Slow as Oil Limits are Reached
We know the world economic pattern we have been used to in years past–world population grows, resource usage grows including energy resources, and debt increases. The economy grows fast enough that paying […]
Maugeri Misses Bakken ”Red Queen”
In this post I will, amongst other things, present the results from my review of the Bakken portion of Leonardo Maugeri’s discussion paper “The Shale Oil Boom: A U.S. Phenomenon” Leonardo Maugeri […]
Energy Products: Return on Investment is Already too Low
My major point when I gave my talk at the Fifth Biophysical Economics Conference at the University of Vermont was that our economy’s overall energy return on investment is already too low […]
Appliance Standards: Comparing Predicted and Observed Prices
When appliance standards are revised, the Department of Energy (DOE) looks at the estimated benefits of standards relative to the estimated costs and only sets standards that it finds are cost-effective to […]
Battery storage: The numbers don’t add up – yet : Renew Economy
At the big clean energy conferences that have been held in three continents over the last two months the major topic of conversation has been clear – battery storage – what it […]
Tech Talk – The latest Canadian oil spill
Time was that I used to write, on Sundays usually, a Tech Talk over at The Oil Drum where I would try and explain some of the technical issues involved in oil […]
New wells proliferate across the Eagle Ford Shale
All of that oil field activity in South Texas is adding up to lots of new wells.In the last four quarters, operators have drilled 4,092 new wells in the Eagle Ford Shale, […]
World Oil and Gas Production Forecasts Up to 2100
The modelling methodology is the same as in my previous analyses, which started 20 years ago, namely the use of a multi-cycle logistic curve (and its derivatives) to extrapolate the future. The […]
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