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| What is a material with high power density? |
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| What will drilling in ANWAR do? |
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| slow down the post peak decline by about 5-10 years but your decline is still there |
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| How much of oil is controlled by oil COMPANIES (as opposed to the government)? |
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| Top ten oil companies give you how much oil? |
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| How is our "life support" pie shrinking? |
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1. The soil is diminishing
2. FOrests are disappearing
3. Aquifers are being pumped dry
4. Fisheries are being decimated
5. Biodiversity is being extinguished
6. Rivers are drying up |
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| US natural gas production: |
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| US natural gas total production has been flat because conventional NG is post peak. UNconventional NG is making up the difference |
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| What are the types of crude oil? |
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Super Light
Extra Light
Light
Medium
Heavy
* Better quality oil is less and there are more of the less quality oil |
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| What is the biggest oil field? |
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| Ghawar in Saudi Arabia; 10-15% of all oil produced came from here (we don't import from Saudi Arabia Right Now) |
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| Are we taking into new oil fields quicker now? |
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| Yes; advances in production technoloogy ltend to force increased production and therefore peak faster and then begin post-peak plateau faster, too |
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| Have total world liquids production increased? |
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| Yes but energy has not gone up because you are using lower quality instead of higher quality |
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| Where does the majority of our World Unconventional Liquids production come from? |
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| Natural gas; some liquids from NG come from NG production; some say you are increasing NG becuase oil is being depleted and you are ereachign gas caps - hitting gas caps is a sign you are reaching peak; we are replacing low energy material for good stuff and calling it liquids |
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| Is our gross energy from liquids rising much? |
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| No - pretty fllat; Low EROEI; we are replacing high EROEI liquids which is why we aren't increasing total energy even though we are increasing volume |
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| Who are the top 3 oil producers? |
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1. Saudi Arabia
2. Russia
3. United States |
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| What is happening with Saudi Arabia oil production? |
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| Recent - flat for a few years; Saudi doing 10 million barrels each day; when they peak we will be in trouble |
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| When did Russia hit their oil peak? |
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| What is USA Energy consumption? |
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| Is american poverty rising? |
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| What is happening in China with cars? |
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| Car sales grow 20% per year in China |
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| No spare capacity and net exports are decreasing. |
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| What is happening with power density? |
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| The stuff that is producing is lower than the stuff you're consuming; all of your sources are lower; not good beucase consumption stuff is higher in graph |
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| Who is most self sufficient? |
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| Asia due to lower consumption |
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| Is the US leading the way in fuel-efficiency standards? |
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| No, our standards are still below many countries |
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| AS EROEI gets lower, what happens with costs? |
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| Are our water supplies limited? |
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| Yes and fracking needs water |
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| Are big oil fields still being discovered? |
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| How much extra oil can be produced within 30 days notice and maintained for 90 days |
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| Do we still have spare capacity in the world oil supply? |
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| Has liters of oil per capita been fairly constant? |
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| Yes, when this starts going down you know we ahve less energy per capita |
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| What is happening with world unconventional production? |
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| What are some examples of unconventional production? |
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Biofuels
X-Heavy crude (excld. Canada)
Canadian oil sands
Polar Oil
Natural Gas Liquids *** Biggest |
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| We consume how many barrels for each barrel that is being discovered? |
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Definition
| consume 4 for each 1 barrel discovered |
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| Are more giant oil fields being discovered? |
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| What is happening with oil EROEI? |
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| What is the worst source of biofuels? |
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| Where can we find SHale gas in US? |
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