Oil industry veteran Charles Maxwell tells the inside story of how Chesapeake Energy helped ignite the the shale gas rush
Peak oil is here and oil prices will keep rising, says physicist Michio Kaku
The consensus is that the world is at Hubbert’s Peak or within ten years of it, Kaku says
We need to imagine life without oil, says legendary ecologist Buzz Holling
Not many scientists take peak oil seriously—but they should, Holling said at the Resilience 2011 conference
How not to argue against the idea of peak oil
In trying to shoot down an article in Nature, co-authored by the UK’s former science advisor, Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations makes a bunch of basic errors
The Checklist Manifesto, Writing, and Resilience
Creating checklists can help avoid catastrophic failures in flights and surgery, and might just help with writing and generally being more resilient
Global crude oil production will soon peak, DOE said in 2004
In a report pushing for development of oil shale—solid deposits of kerogen that can be cooked to produce oil—the Department of Energy says the peak of conventional crude oil is near
“The Quest” Questioned #5: Peak Oil = Running Out of Oil?
The idea of peak oil is not that the world will soon run out of oil, but that it will, at some point, reach a maximum and then gradually decline
“The Quest” Questioned #4: Only the Pessimists Have Been Wrong?
Energy expert Daniel Yergin gloats about all the forecasts that failed for being overly pessimistic—but he fails to mention the overly optimistic forecasts that we wrong as well
“The Quest” Questioned #3: We’re Finding Oil Faster Than We’re Using It?
Daniel Yergin cites numbers to give a hopeful picture of oil supplies—but he seems to rely on questionable data
“The Quest” Questioned #2: One Giant Oil Field?
Yergin claims that the geologist M. King Hubbert tried to predict the future of oil by treating as if U.S. oil were all in one huge field—but that’s far from the truth
