Talk:Peak Oil

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Beginning work on proposed article on the talk page. Hubbert linearization is a particular rough model for charactarizing depletion and production of a finite resource, which happens to be the inspiration for peak oil discussions, because he correctly predicted the US peak. The topic of peak oil is not predicated on an exact fulfillment of Hubbert's curve - just a general bell shape.

Peak Oil

  • method of oil creation
    • as opposed to natgas/coal/bitumen creation
  • methods of forecasting oil production
    • m king hubbert
    • population model
    • loglets
    • Ricatti/Velhurst
    • etc
  • economic analysis of peak and post-peak supply/demand
    • effects on transportation of those economics
    • effects on the grid
    • effects on everything else
    • sociopolitical side effects
  • Problems Posed / Alternatives
    • primer: dependancy on oil's high ROIE
    • nonconventional fossil fuels
    • The Energy Problems
      • nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, geo, bio, coal, nonconventional fossil
    • The Fuel Problems (the car problem)
      • fuel economy
      • CNG
      • CTL
      • Electrification and mass transit
      • other noncar alternatives
      • Hydrogen cell
      • nonhydrogen cell
      • ethanol
      • biodiesel
    • The Chemical Feedstock Problems
  • Current/Nearterm Depletion Analysis