The First Half of the Age of Oil: An Exploration of the Work of Colin Campbell and Jean Laherrere (SpringerBriefs in Energy / Energy Analysis)
Автор:
Charles A. S. Hall, Carlos A. Ramirez-Pascualli, 142 стр., ISBN:
1461460638
According to the conventional wisdom, we live in a post-industrial information age. This book, however, paints a different picture: We live in the age of oil. Petroleum fuels and feedstocks are responsible for much of what we take for granted in modern society, from chemical products such as fertilizer and plastics, to the energy that moves people and goods in a global economy.A Oil is a nearly perfect fuel: Energy dense, safe to store, easy to transport, and mostly environmentally benign. Most importantly, oil has been cheap and abundant during the past 150 years. In 1998, two respected geologists, Colin Campbell and Jean LaherrA?re, published a detailed article announcing that the a??end of cheap oila?? would happen before 2010, which meant that the world would face a peak, or at least a plateau, in global daily oil production in the first decade of the new millennium. Today, two billion people under the age of 14 have lived the majority of their lives past the point when this...
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