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    Report: Peak coal could happen by 2011... if we don't start any more mines!     1281023820

    Whenever you see a study (or survey), the first thing you need to do before drawing any conclusions about said study's (or survey's) conclusions is to determine what question was asked. For example, a newly completed study found that "peak coal" could occur as soon as 2011. We've been hearing ...

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    When the sand runs out of oil, do politicians' heads go there?     1276127400

    Here's how you make friends and influence people: say that politicians and industry experts have their "heads in the sand" when it comes to understanding how much oil is left in the world. That's what Britain's former chief scientist, Sir David King, said recently, adding that people with a ...

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    U.S. military warns of oil production shortage by 2015     1271375340

    The U.S. military thinks we're one step closer to peak oil, the point at which oil demand will forever outstrip oil supply, and therefore we're one step closer to fighting over the last rusting cans of gasoline like so many scraps of meat. On the plus side, we're also one step closer to finally ...

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    Kuwaiti study: Conventional oil to peak in 2014     1268927640

    Some new voices pronouncing predictions of peak oil have distinctly Arabic accents. Researchers from the University of Kuwait with the Kuwait Oil Company have published a new study titled Forecasting World Crude Oil Production Using Multicyclic Hubbert Model (abstract here) that names 2014 as the ...

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    Richard Branson's Energy Security Industry Taskforce expects Peak Oil "potentially" by 2015     1266531960

    Sir Richard Branson has kicked around quite a few green transportation projects over the years – he loved then hated biofuels for cars (some biofuel production methodss, at least), his Virgin Airlines used biofuels to fly from London to Amsterdam and he talked to Saab – but now we might ...

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    Doctoral dissertation estimates 'peak oil' between 2008 & 2018     1175376360

    A doctoral dissertation by Fredrik Robelius of the Uppsala University in Sweden contends that global oil production will reach its peak yield as early as next year before falling into decline. The thesis, which attempts to estimate the largest oil fields' future production, is based on Robelius's ...

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    Has Saudi oil production peaked already? 8% decline in 2006     1173127200

    Over at the OilDrum.com there is an interesting and potentially disturbing look at Saudi oil production in 2006. Looking at data from a number or different sources (where the exact numbers vary but the trend is definitely the same), crude oil production in Saudi Arabia dropped eight percent in the ...

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    Cornell University prof says peak oil could be pushed out 50-100 years     1170358020

    Cornell University geology professor Muawia Barazangi claims that the time of "peak oil" in the Middle East could readily be pushed out another 50-100 years by updating drilling and pumping strategies. During a recent speech, he showed maps illustrating where he thinks there are still huge amounts ...

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    Forget peak oil. Are we facing peak lithium?     1170183300

    Lithium ion battery technology is all the rage when talking about future vehicle propulsion systems. Everybody wants lithium ion batteries because so far they are the only electro-chemical batteries devised that come close to providing the energy density necessary to be truly useful for passenger ...

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    Saudi oil exec: Don't worry, we have plenty of oil     1158192420

    At a conference today in Vienna sponsored by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Abdallah S. Jum'ah, president and CEO of the state-owned Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco), proclaimed that the world has only consumed about 18 percent of its total crude oil supply. He said that with ...

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