OIL CRISIS VIDEO-Peak Oil Introduction

[jetflyer]

This is the best peak oil introduction video I've ever seen.

It's an ABC Australia video that is 13 minutes long.

Here is the link:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13112.htm

The countries' leaders of the world know about this and are trying to slowly get you ready to handle it mentally. In the meanwhile they're competing for the last remaining oil resources of the world and trying to spur alternatives without causing a panic.

They definitely don't want anyone to think that oil will ever run out.

Jet

 

[SPilot]

Oil is presently the largest capital reserve in the world, of course they dont want us to think that their money will be worth alot less once the oil-dependant infrastructure stops running.

Another thing is the aging fleet of oil rigs and exploration equipment: the oil companies had this coming for a long time, but didnt want to invest in new constructions. When last years hurricane took out a large part of the american jackup-fleet, and the average age of the jackup-rigs world wide is 25 years and total life span is usually 35 years, its pretty easy to see that there will be some difficulties in increasing the production and search for new fields in the time to come. So the times of cheap oil are definitivly behind us.

 

[PacoPollo]

GM has the employee discount.America, time to get those Hummers,Tahoes,Suburban SUV's so we can help the economy!

 

[caliginousface]

Sahweet! More and more people finding out about peak oil, I dig it. The cool thing is once airplanes can't take to the skies anymore, we can all become high speed rail operators.

Here's a trailer for a documentary called "The End of Suburbia." Looks like all those kids that went for agriculture degrees are going to be the real winners in life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHr8OzaloLM

 

[gsrcrsx68]

Looks like all those kids that went for agriculture degrees are going to be the real winners in life.

Yeah....It only takes 1.2 gallons of ethanol to make a gallon of ethanol.

 

[caliginousface]

Yeah....It only takes 1.2 gallons of ethanol to make a gallon of ethanol.

Alright lets think a little deeper and go worst case doomsdayer scenario. When oil becomes to expensive to extract, and all the Energy Returned On Energy Invested stuff starts making sense, and the global economy collapses, quite a few of us will know little about soil science and how to farm properly. Growing your own food may be the only thing any one can do.

 

[SPilot]

Well, thanks to the technological advances, I think you can hold back on your doomsday talk. You're right that in worst case, large populations will not be able to survive because their food supply chain is dependant on petrolium, but there's alternatives which can be more rapidly put into the market place as the demand increases.

Regular piston engines and jet engines can operate perfectly on hydrogen, which exists in larger quantities than oil, and can be found everywhere there is water, as well as in natural gas and ...well, everywhere. All it will take is a new way of extracting it.

Nikola Tesla, who invented the AC power as we know it today, also discovered several other interesting properties of electricity, but the world of science hasnt really paid any attention to that part of Teslas work. He was able to create a kind of cold/radiant electricity, which didnt consume coulumbs, but was able to perform more work than regular electromotor voltage. Combine this with a pulse charging device for a electrolysis fuel cell, and we may see a new technology capable of extracting hydrogen from water with high enough effeciency to run our vehicles on-demand. Independent scientists are beginning to research this stuff these days, and NASA and the US Military have been interested in it for decades. If NASA can be the "hero" and introduce this stuff, I'm sure their budget issues will be solved for a long time. It would be a much better contribution to the tax payers than the parachute for General Aviation that NASA have been spending money on...

 

[caliginousface]

Well, thanks to the technological advances, I think you can hold back on your doomsday talk. You're right that in worst case, large populations will not be able to survive because their food supply chain is dependant on petrolium, but there's alternatives which can be more rapidly put into the market place as the demand increases.

Regular piston engines and jet engines can operate perfectly on hydrogen, which exists in larger quantities than oil, and can be found everywhere there is water, as well as in natural gas and ...well, everywhere. All it will take is a new way of extracting it.

Nikola Tesla, who invented the AC power as we know it today, also discovered several other interesting properties of electricity, but the world of science hasnt really paid any attention to that part of Teslas work. He was able to create a kind of cold/radiant electricity, which didnt consume coulumbs, but was able to perform more work than regular electromotor voltage. Combine this with a pulse charging device for a electrolysis fuel cell, and we may see a new technology capable of extracting hydrogen from water with high enough effeciency to run our vehicles on-demand. Independent scientists are beginning to research this stuff these days, and NASA and the US Military have been interested in it for decades. If NASA can be the "hero" and introduce this stuff, I'm sure their budget issues will be solved for a long time.

Those are some high hopes you're holding for the future, i'm hoping you are right. To rely on and claim technology will bail us out of every jam is a risky thing to do. To say that new technology for vehicles and aircraft can be placed rapidly into the current infrastructure doesn't make all that much sense. Many feel that time to start these investments and changes was years ago, but again, I hope that you are right.

However big changes in our lifestyles will probably take place, we as America, produce an incredible amount of waste and consume energy like crazy. I'm hoping at least this will happen.

Does this mean we can put tesla coils in our front yards at zap the unwanted like in Red Alert?

 

[SPilot]

Does this mean we can put tesla coils in our front yards at zap the unwanted like in Red Alert?

LOL. The Tesla coil in Red Alert was on the russian side, if I remember correctly. Strange considering Tesla became an american before he gave inventions to the world....anyway, here's some tesla coils you can put on your lawn:
http://www.amazing1.com/tesla.htm

1.5 million volts will zap anyone within 6 feet, so you'll maybe need a couple of them. Try asking your local building inspector/dictator for forgivness after it zaps an innocent bypasser.

 

[jetflyer]

Am I imagining things or is the fact that there is an intelligent conversation going on here about our energy future mean people are starting to accept peak oil as a possibility? Admitting there is a problem is the first step. Conventional easy to get oil reaching a peak production is going to be the challenge to overcome for mankind for several decades to come. The price is going a LOT higher before this is over with. We're all going to have to get used to much more expensive energy till alternatives can make a difference in a decade or two. Jet