Chapter 17a - Peak Oil: Energy is the lifeblood of any economy and a steady supply of energy is necessary to maintain the status quo, while an ever-increasing supply is needed to grow an economy. In this chapter, Dr. Chris Martenson explains that Peak Oil is not a theory, rather ...
Chapter 17a – Peak Oil: Energy is the lifeblood of any economy and a steady supply of energy is necessary to maintain the status quo, while an ever-increasing supply is needed to grow an economy. In this chapter, Dr. Chris Martenson explains that Peak Oil is not a theory, rather it is a description of how oil production increases over time, reaches a peak, then declines. Evidence points to a global production peak in the near future, which is troubling since the US imports two-thirds of its oil and relies on it to much of its transportation and food production needs. www.chrismartenson.com
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Such a great and important video to introduce the public to the concept and importance of Peak Oil. Thank you for posting this!
@MrEnergyCzar Agreed, but generators are just a stop gap until grid power returns. If the anticipated crisis is deep enough to stress the grid and impact the availability of diesel, this risk is very real. Just something to watch for as things progress. For me here in the Midwest, the impact of this risk would be devastating since I am surrounded by the buggers..
@mjs48130 good points, I’m pretty sure the cooling pools are required to have diesel back up generators and diesel fuel onsite.. great point though… it takes a lot of oil to mine and transport uranium.
The other problem with Nuclear power plants is that they require grid power to stay cool even if they aren’t producing ANY power themselves.
that means, if the grid is down for more then a week for any single reactor, the spent fuel ponds would boil off because the pond water can’t circulate. This eventually leads to the spent rods burning up and discharging radioactive ash to the air since the ponds are covered by a tin roof not concrete.
Hey people. I’ve decided that I’m only going to live as long as there are frozen pizzas for me to eat. If running out of oil ends those tasty frozen pizzas, then I’m outta’ here.
@sparkloweb Whoa. Epic comment. Epic solution
Everyone should try and see Chris give one of his talks…..
Can we make just one thing absolutely clear everyone. Peak oil DOES NOT MEAN we are running out of oil. We are running out the cheap oil that is easy to extract. There is a shitload of oil, but if it’s not profitable to extract for the corporations doing so, it won’t be done. It is the profitable oil we are running out of, NOT oil itself.
@ImMichaelTaylor
“stick to flowery phrases and pretentious declarations,”
And you your’s… [COUGH]A.G.W.[COUGH]
@WoodlandRavah
My advice is stick to flowery phrases and pretentious declarations, and leave accuracy to people who give a fuck about it. Still, that’s your lookout. Goodbye.
@ImMichaelTaylor
Have or have we not moved mountains, created lakes bigger than some states, dug to where the air is too hot to breath and the pressure is stiffling? Have we not gone to the moon or learned the properties of matter? What are all our efforts up to this point, just farts in the wind? Your just a defeatest and a co-intel pro… Objectivity is awesome, I did’nt say do this crazy s@#$ overnight, just over time, we do slowly gain power over nature as we study it you know?!?!
@WoodlandRavah Your words were clear enough, it’s their lack of objectivity and failure to relate coherently to established physical fact that I take issue with.
“The Earth shall be remade in our image over and over again through the eons” Evidence? (And no, “because it sounds cool” or “the voices told me so” are not types of evidence.)
@ImMichaelTaylor
I think you’re retarded because you have no clue what I meant, despite me clearly writing it out. The Earth shall be remade in our image over and over again through the eons, and only life shall be the benefactor, throughout the cosmos, environmentalists are short sighted and foolish.
[kills and eats a weak deer with his bare hands]
@WoodlandRavah “yet we feel the need to perpetuate the thought that a polar bear trumps a rain forest,” What are you talking about? Search your skull for bumps or wet spots, I think you’re concussed.
@ImMichaelTaylor
Natural History would say that the need for less CO2 is shortsighted and ignorant as f@#$. During the Jurasssic period we had pole to pole rain forests yet we feel the need to perpetuate the thought that a polar bear trumps a rain forest, sorry buddy but im for geo-engineering and the betterment of planet Earth, if that means at the risk of momentary infrastructure loss and habitat fluctuation then so be it. Li-tards have no view for the distant future, I do, so screw em…
@WoodlandRavah “you create more CO2 making bio-fuels like ethanol than just through processing pre-existing petro and burning it.” You’re using ‘create’ to mean two different things, neither of which accurately correspond to the physical reality.
It’s more useful (for scientific accuracy not politics) to compare how much net CO2 is added to our atmosphere per unit of energy usefully extracted from fuel. Biofuels can easily work with no net CO2 output. Fossil fuels never can.
Why did we stop using ethanol again? That WAS the first fuel…
Ironically you create more CO2 making bio-fuels like ethanol than just through processing pre-existing petro and burning it. Also abiotic oil & gas is a real thing, not all of it came from fossils. this abiotic oil & gas replenishes it’self since it comes from gas and volatile organic compound emissions from the Earth’s mantel, for us to say that there will be a day when we have no oil is to misunderstand theEarth’s cycles.
@sethreber The 2nd law applies to closed systems, gah! <.<;, it takes more energy to grow crops than we get from eating them by your interpretation. And it’s true, but yet still here we are, not starving and some of us morbidly obese; wonder how that works? Same way you get more energy out of using oil, solar power, hydro-power, or whatever you want.
If we could only somehow eat oil at 1:1 conversion we’d have enough energy to feed a 4-person family for about four centuries on a single barrel of oil.
Nuclear is not bad; it is improving. There is a reactor design that can’t melt down, for the hotter it gets, the slower the nuclear reactions take place, releasing less heat.
Great information we enjoyed your video
dude very good series, people should watch this so they KNOW instead of BELIEVE whats on cnn or fox. Its just arithmetic. However i must not that peak oil does indeed not mean you are running out of oil, but while consumption goes up (plastics use, chemicals, complex medicine) discovery does not. Some deep water , antartic supply will not offset the asian increased demand so relative supply will decline. Unfortunately solar/wind energy is just not up to standards for economic exploitation
And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, And the leopard will lie down with the young goat, And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little boy will lead them.
the problems of mankind are becoming manifest
oil makes humans, not the other way round