Tag Archives: petroleum

Keystone XL Is About Exports

Posted on 2012/03/11 by LastTechAge

Is the Keystone XL push to the Texas coast for American energy or for export? The U.S. EIA released a new graph that is an attention-getter. In 2011, petroleum exports exceeded imports. This was the first time for this in … Continue reading →

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Is there enough Uranium ore to do the job?

Posted on 2011/05/29 by LastTechAge

In a recent post, Nuclear Decisions-4, we examined whether nuclear power might be able to replace all other forms of power generation.  Our answer?   No, we will run out of fuel immediately we were to try. That answer assumes … Continue reading →

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Has Peak Oil happened?

Posted on 2011/05/16 by LastTechAge

The 2011 March 25  s article by Richard Kerr in the the professional journal, Science1 discussed the possibility that the peaking in  world petroleum consumption may have already occurred.  (Richard A. Kerr, “Peak Oil Production May Already Be Here,” Science, … Continue reading →

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Peak oil – Predictive Model

Posted on 2011/01/27 by LastTechAge

Petroleum and other natural resources have finite size. We approach the Peak Oil problem of resource management from a slightly different viewpoint.  Our model looks at the consequences of usage that increases exponentially; the math tools are derived on a … Continue reading →

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