Hubbert's Peak : : The Impending World Oil Shortage - New Edition / / Kenneth S. Deffeyes.
In 2001, Kenneth Deffeyes made a grim prediction: world oil production would reach a peak within the next decade--and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it. Deffeyes's claim echoed the work of geophysicist M. King Hubbert, who in 1956 predicted that U.S. oil production would reach its hi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2008] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | New edition with a New commentary by the author |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 25 halftones. 50 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface to the 2008 Edition
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER 1. Overview
- CHAPTER 2. The Origin of Oil
- CHAPTER 3. Oil Reservoirs and Oil Traps
- CHAPTER 4. Finding It
- CHAPTER 5. Drilling Methods
- CHAPTER 6. Size and Discoverability of Oil Fields
- CHAPTER 7. Hubbert Revisited
- CHAPTER 8. Rate Plots
- CHAPTER 9. The Future of Fossil Fuels
- CHAPTER 10. Alternative Energy Sources
- CHAPTER 11. A New Outlook
- NOTES
- INDEX