Reality

[Old Rocks]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQd-VGYX3-E&feature=relmfu]The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 4 of 8) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Old Rocks]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-X6EpvWWu8&feature=relmfu]The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 5 of 8) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Old Rocks]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3y7UlHdhAU&feature=relmfu]The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 6 of 8) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Mad Scientist]

Reality: Didn't Watch.

 

[Old Rocks]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoiiVnQadwE&feature=relmfu]The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 8 of 8) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Old Rocks]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=SP6A1FD147A45EF50D]The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 1 of 8) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Old Rocks]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb3JI8F9LQQ&feature=relmfu]The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 2 of 8) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Old Rocks]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFyOw9IgtjY&feature=relmfu]The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 3 of 8) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Mad Scientist]

Oh look! MORE videos I won't watch!

 

[Old Rocks]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFyOw9IgtjY&feature=relmfu]The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 3 of 8) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Old Rocks]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyseLQVpJEI&feature=relmfu]The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 7 of 8) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Mr. H.]

I did watch the first one. He appears to be another hydrocarbon-panic theorist.

No, we can't continue using oil/gas/coal forever. But to make those students sit through this while he pulls in six figures and sits atop a huge tenured pension-in-waiting is a crime in itself.

 

[Old Rocks]

Actually the first one is the fourth one. Youtube does not have sequencial videos sorted out well at all. Listened to the first one, #4, then all the others. Hydrocarbons are just one example that he is giving of the common errors in calculating life span of resources, including land area.

 

[Mr. H.]

Understood. Any idea as to when he gave these lectures?

Over the decades, as demand for energy resources has grown, industry has consistently been able to keep up with supply. I see this happening for decades to come, even with burgeoning population growth.
I've got faith in human ingenuity and believe that new horizons in energy production (even creation) will eventually come to fruition.

 

[Old Rocks]

Yes, we have been utilizing new energy sources. And trying to develop even better ones. However, there are resources outside of energy which are very finite, and not easily replaceable. One is water. Another is land that can be used for agriculture. If we keep growing our population, both will extract some real consequences.

Then there is the price we are going to pay for our past energy use. A price that has everything to do with what we are seeing happening in the Arctic. And nobody knows what that price will be. The last two years have given us a heads up on that, but nobody actually can predict the consequences for individual areas.

 

[Mr. H.]

In his short career my dad drilled over a thousand water, gas, and oil wells.
He always maintained that water was the most valuable and would some day cost more than the others.
And that was 50 years ago.

 

[RGR]

By now any halfwit knows that oil production doesn't increase exponentially. Even Bartlett. Nonsense to a minimum please, if you want to discuss peak oil fine, stop using surrogates. And make sure you have a functioning brain first, and at least a little knowledge of the history of these types of claims.

 

[Old Rocks]

RGR, if you are going to join the conversation, it would behove you to at least know what the discussion is.

 

[Old Rocks]

In his short career my dad drilled over a thousand water, gas, and oil wells.
He always maintained that water was the most valuable and would some day cost more than the others.
And that was 50 years ago.

A driller certainly has an inside view of the drawdown on our aquifers. Your father was a wise man.

 

[Mr. H.]

Thanks. I remember he'd get so pissed off at some of the folks who hired him to drill for water.
He'd show up at the job site and ask them what that house was doing there.
They'd proudly tell him "I just built it".
He just shook his head LOL.