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What are carbon fibre and the resins made of? How much energy is expended making a wind mill?

Don't read too much into those charts. They are from the EIA which accepts without question the stated reserves from Saudi Arabia et al which have never been reduced to reflect output, in spite of little exploration being done. I think Bill posted them just to show that EVEN the EIA is...

I know that's what you said. What has that got to do with whether or not US Defense has concerns about availability of oil? They are probably way ahead of you in their deliberations. It's too easy to dismiss military men as dumb *** but the top brass all had to do something well (Fly an...

Sure they tell lies. We know that. But didn't you say they couldn't know about peak oil because they didn't know about WMD? Something like that.

LL do you seriously think you know more than the US Generals? Are you so naive' that you believe that what they distribute for general consumption is what they actually believe? The Pentagon knows all about the threats to their fuel. So aware that they will invent "false scenarios" to...

Earth. And your link didn't work on my browser.

Don't stop me, I'm on a roll. :) When oil was cheap ($30/bl?) the ethinol industry said that they were "nearly" competitive with conventional oil. Fast forward to today with oil X3 in cost and ethinol is still "not quite" competitive but with a few million (?) subsidy they will be soon...

I just remembered an oil expert on the "internet press" that I take notice of once called burning natural gas to recover heavy oil from tar sands to be like using caviar to make mock crab. I liked the description. LOL

I have posted about it here myself a couple of years ago. The idea is to build a nuclear station on top of the tar sands and pump the steam underground in a horizontal drill and sucking the heated oil out of another, lower drill hole. Shell has done a lot of work on this. For reasons I never...

That was a good post Bill. I would like to add that you cannot "borrow" energy to build the next generation power source the way you can the money which is needed. You must burn the oil/coal for the energy, crack the crude oil to get the polymers and you must explore for and extract the...

"Abiotic oil" is the real "rubbish". Dream on. There is always two sides to a trade.

This is interesting. We (the voting public) happily accept that the boffins "will find a way" and do so in time to avert a crisis. We believe they will solve the unsolvable such as recovering oil from flooded wells but refuse to allow them to solve the simple problem of dumping nuclear waste...

What happens to posters like Dunc! Prolific poster, positive and heavily invested in property one moment and then not heard of for three years. Have things gone bad or has he moved onwards and upwards? He is not the only one either, there are dozens like him. I am genuinely curious.