Has Global Peak Oil been reached?

Hercules Rockefeller said:
Would you mind explaining, in your own words, how to take advantage of Zero Point Energy?
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I don't know how to do that but as a thought experiment think of Maxwell's demon:

"In the philosophy of thermal and statistical physics, Maxwell's demon is a thought experiment created by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell to "show that the Second Law of Thermodynamics has only a statistical certainty". It demonstrates Maxwell's point by hypothetically describing how to violate the Second Law: a container is divided into two parts by an insulated wall, with a door that can be opened and closed by what came to be called "Maxwell's demon". The demon opens the door to allow only the "hot" molecules of gas to flow through to a favoured side of the chamber, causing that side to gradually heat up while the other side cools down, thus decreasing entropy." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_demon

Maxwell's Demon and Perpetuum Mobile of second kind in Phun: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9nOV7u8Y4A

Next consider the vacuum energy:

"Vacuum energy is an underlying background energy that exists in space even when the space is devoid of matter (free space). The concept of vacuum energy has been deduced from the concept of virtual particles, which is itself derived from the energy-time uncertainty principle. The effects of vacuum energy can be experimentally observed in various phenomena such as spontaneous emission, the Casimir effect, the van der Waals bonds and the Lamb shift, and are thought to influence the behavior of the Universe on cosmological scales." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_energy

And then combine the two into a Maxwell's demon on a quantum scale.
 
Frankly, I don't care about what thought experiments you come up with; Theoretically, you can (maybe) travel through a black hole and emerge in another universe. The question is, do you really believe, that there is someone out there withholding this kind of technology?
 
In one hand I have a ball of bread dough. In the other hand I have a Swiss alarm clock. Maybe if I mash them together, they'll spontaneously transform into a cat. --physics by Anders Lindman.
 
JayUtah said:
In one hand I have a ball of bread dough. In the other hand I have a Swiss alarm clock. Maybe if I mash them together, they'll spontaneously transform into a cat. --physics by Anders Lindman.
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Mmmm....freshly baked breadcats that'll wake you up in the morning? I'd buy that!
 
Hercules Rockefeller said:
Frankly, I don't care about what thought experiments you come up with; Theoretically, you can (maybe) travel through a black hole and emerge in another universe. The question is, do you really believe, that there is someone out there withholding this kind of technology?
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Oh yes! And many researchers who find out something related to free energy seem to be killed! That's why I suspect there is something extremely dangerous about the technology. Imagine for example zero point energy bombs that would make the alleged nuclear weapons look like firecrackers in comparison. And further imagine that terrorists could easily use that technology to create their own ZPE bombs. That's knowledge that under no circumstances can be allowed in the public society today.
 
Eugene Franklin Mallove (June 9, 1947 – May 14, 2004) was a scientist, science writer, editor, and publisher of Infinite Energy magazine, and founder of the non-profit organization New Energy Foundation. He was a strong proponent of cold fusion, and a supporter of its research and related exploratory alternative energy topics, some of which are, at times, disparaged as "fringe science".*

Has what to do with ZPE?

The water fuel cell is a purported free energy device invented by American Stanley Allen Meyer (August 24, 1940 – March 21, 1998). He claimed that an automobile retrofitted with the device could use water as fuel instead of gasoline.*

Has what to do with ZPE?

Brian Todd O'Leary (January 27, 1940 – July 28, 2011) was an American scientist, author, and former NASA astronaut.*

Wat?

*Yeah, I use Wiki too.

Does it come to you as a surprise that even, GASP, scientists eventually die?
 
Hercules Rockefeller said:
Eugene Franklin Mallove (June 9, 1947 – May 14, 2004) was a scientist, science writer, editor, and publisher of Infinite Energy magazine, and founder of the non-profit organization New Energy Foundation. He was a strong proponent of cold fusion, and a supporter of its research and related exploratory alternative energy topics, some of which are, at times, disparaged as "fringe science".*

Has what to do with ZPE?

The water fuel cell is a purported free energy device invented by American Stanley Allen Meyer (August 24, 1940 – March 21, 1998). He claimed that an automobile retrofitted with the device could use water as fuel instead of gasoline.*

Has what to do with ZPE?

Brian Todd O'Leary (January 27, 1940 – July 28, 2011) was an American scientist, author, and former NASA astronaut.*

Wat?

*Yeah, I use Wiki too.

Does it come to you as a surprise that even, GASP, scientists eventually die?
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They were all involved in free energy research. And most if not all free energy technologies are based on zero point energy I think. Even so-called cold fusion is not fusion at all I suspect, but rather some zero point energy effect.
 
I don't care about what you think or suspect.

Eugene Franklin Mallove (June 9, 1947 – May 14, 2004) - age 56, murdered.

Brian Todd O'Leary (January 27, 1940 – July 28, 2011 - age 71, cancer.

Stanley Allen Meyer (August 24, 1940 – March 21, 1998) - age 57, cerebral aneurysm.

I've known at least 10 people who died before they were 30. They were good people but none were geniuses. What do you make of that?
 
Hercules Rockefeller said:
I don't care about what you think or suspect.

Eugene Franklin Mallove (June 9, 1947 – May 14, 2004) - age 56, murdered.

Brian Todd O'Leary (January 27, 1940 – July 28, 2011 - age 71, cancer.

Stanley Allen Meyer (August 24, 1940 – March 21, 1998) - age 57, cerebral aneurysm.

I've known at least 10 people who died before they were 30. They were good people but none were geniuses. What do you make of that?
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Frankly I don't want to research that topic too much. It's too dangerous.
 
But there already ARE alternatives to oil. Why do you think there's so much research in battery technology, solar power, wind mills etc.? None of the people working in these fields seem to killed by "them".
 
Hercules Rockefeller said:
But there already ARE alternatives to oil. Why do you think there's so much research in battery technology, solar power, wind mills etc.? None of the people working in these fields seem to killed by "them".
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Because those technologies are harmless. A terrorist can't use solar panels to create a weapon of mass destruction, lol.
 
Sure It applies to Uranium..,....

Sword_Of_Truth said:
There's no such thing as peak Uranium. M. King Hubbert, the original developer of Peak Oil Theory, specifically stated that it doesn't apply to Uranium. The energy density of fission fuels is simply too high.
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Sure It applies to Uranium..,....The modeling of peak uranium, though not identical, would be similar. There would/will be a time when we have used up half of all the world's originally available uranium. As the 2nd half of the uranium reserve will be harder to get at, mine and collect, the uranium energy economy would/will slow at the halfway point.
 
Patrick1000 said:
Sure It applies to Uranium..,....The modeling of peak uranium, though not identical, would be similar. There would/will be a time when we have used up half of all the world's originally available uranium. As the 2nd half of the uranium reserve will be harder to get at, mine and collect, the uranium energy economy would/will slow at the halfway point.
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The peak is for the production, not for the amount of resources left in the ground, but yeah I guess even uranium will be harder and harder to extract so that a historical production peak is reached. But that would not necessarily be so if uranium ore has about the same percentage of uranium in it for the majority of the resources (or if the mining technology improves a lot).

With oil, the easy to get high quality light sweet crude oil is extracted first, and after that only oil of lesser quality - more sour and heavy oil - can be extracted and with more difficulty, meaning more expensive, demanding more energy per barrel of extraction. After that, when the oil field is starting to become depleted they need to use steam and C02 injection and techniques like that to get the oil out of the ground. After that, they start to extract oil from the really heavy stuff such as oil/tar sands. And after that they have now started to use something called fracking (for oil shales?).
 
Peak production per Hubbert comes at 50% extraction....

Anders Lindman said:
The peak is for the production, not for the amount of resources left in the ground, but yeah I guess even uranium will be harder and harder to extract so that a historical production peak is reached. But that would not necessarily be so if uranium ore has about the same percentage of uranium in it for the majority of the resources (or if the mining technology improves a lot).

With oil, the easy to get high quality light sweet crude oil is extracted first, and after that only oil of lesser quality - more sour and heavy oil - can be extracted and with more difficulty, meaning more expensive, demanding more energy per barrel of extraction. After that, when the oil field is starting to become depleted they need to use steam and C02 injection and techniques like that to get the oil out of the ground. After that, they start to extract oil from the really heavy stuff such as oil/tar sands. And after that they have now started to use something called fracking (for oil shales?).
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Peak production per Hubbert comes at 50% extraction....The 2 coincide Anders....
 
Things are obviously done different here in the CT forum.

If I wanted to know whether oil had peaked, I would examine all of the oil production figures and see what trends were indicated.
 
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