- The Oil Drum | World Oil Capacity to Peak in 2010 Says Petrobras CEO. O nº 1 do petróleo brasileiro diz da sua justiça, e demonstra a sua tese com um conjunto de gráficos bem ilustrativos (exemplos acima).
- The Oil Drum | Energy Flow, Emergent Complexity, and Collapse: "Civilizations grow in complexity given the right circumstances. And all too often they end up collapsing. History is replete with examples. Joseph Tainter, among others, has examined collapse from the standpoint of decreasing marginal return on investment in increasing complexity, which he posits is the most common factor in collapsed societies. The key question one must ask is: What critical circumstance (if there is one factor above all others) enables a society to grow in complexity in the first place? If we find an answer to that question we may also find what causes the decrease in marginal returns as complexity increases. This is certainly a growing concern for our modern civilizations. I advance a systems theoretical and principled thesis, below, that puts the increased flow of energy as the key enabler of increases in complexity. And I examine what we might expect from declines in that flow rate when sources are depleted." Aquilo que é dito atrás cruza com isto.
- The oil industry: Beyond the black stuff | The Economist: "Big Oil is being forced to rethink its future"
Números interessantes, mas a informação do que o Google está a fazer no domínio das renováveis e da eficiência energético diz-nos um bocado de como alguns estão atentos:
- Where's Google Putting Its Money? | SolveClimate.com: "The International Energy Agency projects that global energy demand will increase 46 percent by 2030, requiring an investment of $26.3 trillion in energy infrastructure to meet the expected demand. Yet, last year, global investment in the sector fell to $5.6 billion, a 33 percent drop from 2008, and that was the second highest year. Revamping our energy system will take substantial funding, and while some countries, like China, are investing in the whole cleantech pipeline, from “lightbulb to lightbulb” — from idea to implementation, as Google puts it — the U.S. is investing only sporadically. Since 1980, funding for R&D has dropped 58 percent, with energy getting only 2 percent of the pie."
- Endless Oil: Peak Production vs. Oil Price -- Seeking Alpha: "One of the persons cited in Mr. Reed’s article is Leonardo Maugeri, a senior executive of the Italian oil major ENI. He states that “there will be enough oil for at least 100 years.” Actually there will be enough for a thousand or more, but not enough to keep our Volvos in the fast lane up to the skiing and partying in the Midnight Sun at Riksgränsen in the North of Sweden. There should, however, be enough though for the lamps of China and Beverly Hills."
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