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Hubbert's Peak

Evan

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Ladies and Gentlemen,

This picture is just a blip of our humanity,
This is called Hubbert's Peak:
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This peak shows our oil production in history, present, and future. As we know that everything that is made; your clothes, your house, your computer, your food, your water, your electricity, pretty much your life, is depended on oil. Of course, Oil will not just "run out" because all oil production follows a bell curve. This is true whether we're talking about an individual field, a country, or on the planet as a whole. Oil is increasingly plentiful on the upslope of the bell curve, increasingly scarce and expensive on the down slope. The peak of the curve coincides with the point at which the endowment of oil has been 50 percent depleted. Once the peak is passed, oil production begins to go down while cost begins to go up.

In practical and considerably oversimplified terms, this means that if 2005 was the year of global Peak Oil, worldwide oil production in the year 2030 will be the same as it was in 1980. However, the world’s population in 2030 will be both much larger (approximately twice) and much more industrialized (oil-dependent) than it was in 1980. Consequently, worldwide demand for oil will outpace worldwide production of oil by a significant margin. As a result, the price will skyrocket, oil dependent economies will crumble, and resource wars will explode.

Civilization as we know it is coming to an end soon. This is not the wacky proclamation of a doomsday cult, apocalypse bible prophecy sect, or conspiracy theory society. Rather, it is the scientific conclusion of the best paid, most widely-respected geologists, physicists, bankers, and investors in the world. These are rational, professional, conservative individuals who are absolutely terrified by a phenomenon known as global "Peak Oil."

Within this little blip of our humanity, we are living in a very rare time where our oil gave us a much better life. Ladies and Gentlemen, we are and will ever be the richest humans ever known in the history of Earth. No one before the 1900s and sometime after 2080 had and will live a wonderful lifestyle like we live today. Sorry people, we ruined our lives, we damaged our self with greed, with hatred, and selfishness. We took all of the oil like pigs. We blew our chance of having further space travel, we blew our chance of living longer and we blew our chance of having a very promising future.

You might think oil is not important, if you think so, then you wouldn't be alive. Oil is a non-renewable resource, meaning it can never be recreated (exception, it can be recreated but it would take thousands and thousands of years, so it just became declared non-renewable). You have to realize how POWERFUL oil is. Put it this way, 1 gallon of gas is equivalent to 500 hours of human work. There are no other resource known to be able to replace oil.

So, guys, as the global peak has been reached or is nearly reached within a few years, we are going to start a very stressful and financially difficult time in our lifetime, so, better start going to school and getting a good job to save up some money because you will need it to live for the rest of your life.


Here is another picture of Hubbert's Peak (Peak Oil):

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Sources:

Peak Oil, Matt Savinar, Life After the Oil Crash
(I recommend you to read more on this website, it has a lot of interesting FAQ answered)

Remember, this is NOT a lie; media hides it to prevent scarcity.
 
whats da point of da media hiding it if almost everyone got a pc nowdays?
 
Oh we are lost boooy.

no other resource known to be able to replace oil
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That's not true, there are many. If we are talkin about energy, sun energy is something that we will never be out of (well not anytime soon), and I heard there is substance on our moon that is few times better than earths oil. Also, there is probably A LOT of oil in antarctica, but as this country belongs to 'everyone' no one can dig there yet.
 
Paxton said:
Oh we are lost boooy.



That's not true, there are many. If we are talkin about energy, sun energy is something that we will never be out of (well not anytime soon), and I heard there is substance on our moon that is few times better than earths oil. Also, there is probably A LOT of oil in antarctica, but as this country belongs to 'everyone' no one can dig there yet.
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Okay, I think you misunderstood what I meant by that statement.
What I meant is that there is no other resource that can replace the power of oil. Sure, we have alternate resources that we can use besides oil, like you said solar energy, we also have wind power and hydro-electric energy, but unfortunatley, they certainly do not have enough power compared to oil. As you can see in this graph below; petroleum, coal, and natural gas is made from oil. Within the renewable resource, solar energy is just 1% of the 7%, that's VERY small compared to the power of oil.

You can see the comparison pie graph here:

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About the moon, there is something on there called helium-3 that can replace oil.
The problem is, to extract helium-3 gas, the rocks have to be heated above 800 degrees Celsius, WHICH INVOLVES OIL to be burned.
We just simply don't have the resources and technology to just go up to the moon and burn rocks, then bring them back down and make another trip, NOT A CHANCE.
 
Lostboy said:
Okay, I think you misunderstood what I meant by that statement.
What I meant is that there is no other resource that can replace the power of oil. Sure, we have alternate resources that we can use besides oil, like you said solar energy, we also have wind power and hydro-electric energy, but unfortunatley, they certainly do not have enough power compared to oil. As you can see in this graph below; petroleum, coal, and natural gas is made from oil. Within the renewable resource, solar energy is just 1% of the 7%, that's VERY small compared to the power of oil.

You can see the comparison pie graph here:

684qo5.png



About the moon, there is something on there called helium-3 that can replace oil.
The problem is, to extract helium-3 gas, the rocks have to be heated above 800 degrees Celsius, WHICH INVOLVES OIL to be burned.
We just simply don't have the resources and technology to just go up to the moon and burn rocks, then bring them back down and make another trip, NOT A CHANCE.
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The percentage of solar energy is so small because we don't fully use it, I've heard that every second sun is hitting the earth with so much energy that it could replace all power stations in europe for a month, well we just need to use it.

Yes, it was helium-3, but we don't need no oil, solar energy hits moon as well, and also as this actually produces resource of energy it can power itself while digging for helium-3 right? It can change this into energy straight away.

Also I heard that helium-3 is so powerful that we don't need tons of it, so transportation wouldn't be a problem.
 
@point one,
Why hasn't it been done yet?

@point two,
Extracting helium-3 from the Moon, don't expect any of that happening anytime soon.
 
Lostboy said:
@point one,
Why hasn't it been done yet?

@point two,
Extracting helium-3 from the Moon, don't expect any of that happening anytime soon.
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Because all the biggest energy suppliers would go bankrupt. The more energy we have, the cheaper it is, solar energy would be infinite for us because we will never probably be able to gather it 100% even if we could there is no way we would be able to use it. There is huge business in oil, and changing this into something else is not really a multi-billionaire company dream. Everything goes around money, they don't care if the oil will run out, if it does then we will be looking into external methods.

I personally think that we will never be in situation you have described. In case we run away out of oil which will happen soon like you said, all countries will be in a huge race of which one will get new energy source first, and they will be investing billions or even trillions in this. I'm sure the amount of money for example BP makes every year, would be enough to make thousands of square meters of solar panels, but again I believe that in such case solar panels wouldn't be on earth.

Next thing, we don't really have to worry about this, it's not like it's gonna end from one day to another and everyone will be shocked, such process will take years and therefore we will have years of preparation. Energy providers exactly know how much oil they have and I'm sure they are smart enough.

Humanity is too smart to not survive such case, like you said we live in richest human time, our richness will provide another energy sources.
 
I'm not totally saying that the oil is running out, I'm saying the production is going down, this does NOT mean oil is running out.
I believe we can prevent this, but now that we are at, or near the global peak, we are still going to experience tough financial times as we start going down that slope.
But since the population keeps going up and keep using oil and the oil production goes down, there's a reason why that slope is steeper than just a 45% slope.
I feel we are TOO late to make some kind of saving from a very difficult financial era, we are NOT too late to invent and research for alternative resources.
So, the miserable lives will be going to those who pay lots of money for gas and other things.
 
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