Book: Peak Oil, Economic Collapse are a Fraud

[PersianPaladin]

I don't think you can call Peak Oil a fraud, unless you believe in infinite-growth and excess consumption at a rate that exceeds Earth's ability to rejuvenate resources.

Nevertheless, I will take a look at your book and see if it has any cogent argument in it.

[PersianPaladin]

Thus far I have found nothing that challenges the issue of Peak Oil in your book.

I agree with you with regard to the medical benefits of hemp and cannabis, but there is no way that hemp can replace our current usage of oil in the world. No biomass can. An acre field of oil seed rape (for example) would be used up in a fraction of a second at our current rate of consumption.

I suggest you give this a read with regard to the energy issue:-
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/w ... .shtml#oil

[jjohnson]

Here are a couple more:

Regarding oil consumption rates and power usage, read Power Hungry - The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future, by Robert Bryce, 2010, who makes the following crucial distinction in his opening chapter:

We dont give a damn about energy. What we want is power.
Differentiating between the two is essential. Here's the simplest way to do so: Energy is the ability to do work; power is the rate at which work gets done.¹ [footnote reads: 1.Areva, All About Nuclear Energy, From Atom to Zirconium, (Paris:Areva, 2008)]... We don't care what energy is. We want what energy does... We aren't after energy; we are after what energy provides. And what energy provides is power. We use energy to make power. We convert energy — measured in barrels of oil, tons of coal, and cubic feet of gas — into power, which we measure in watts or horsepower.

Regarding the background of the search for fuels that provide us with power, and a great insight into the energy exploration business, read A Thousand Barrels a Second by Peter Tertzakian, 2006.

The Forum's thread on abiotic oil is fascinating reading in its own right, with a lot of good links and discussion. The links between EU concepts, telluric currents and possible means of producing our oil beneath the ground using fairly simple electrochemical processes on common minerals is really thought-provoking.

Jim