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Presentation for EEG’s Inter College Speaking Competition 2009
Presentation Guideline
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Life before..
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WATERWATER
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Coal
http://www.ccmhs.co.uk
ENERGY
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Oil Discovery
1859Edwin Drake
Industrial RevolutionIndustrial Revolution
http://www.americansolvent.com
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Development
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Converted Deserts…Converted Deserts…
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Into Cities…
http://www.eikongraphia.com/?p=1868
Al-Jumaira Palm Tree Island
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Burj Dubai
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Space Exploration
But Why Oil?
Oil Dependency
90%
Consumes as Fuel
Oil Form in Hundreds of Millions of Years!
www.solarnavigator.net
100Years
http://www.superstock.com/
www.futurescenarios.org
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HUBBERT THEORY
Increasing Depletion
Peak
HUBBERT THEORY
Individual Wells
Region Curve
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Charlie Bottle - http://seekingalpha.com/article/96235-peak-oil-are-we-there-yet
But does this last?
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Pumping
29Day and Night
But does this last?
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Depleted Oil Well
Injection Well
www.princeton.edu
2. COLLAPSE PEAK THEORY
Life after oil runs out.
37Hunger and Poverty
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Diseases
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Transportation Crash
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WARS
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ENERGY WARS
3. TECHNOLOGY EXPLOSION
What the experts say?
-Jad Mouawad Journalist – New York Times
“ As oil prices rise, new extraction technologies become viable, thus
expanding the total recoverable oil reserves . ”
-Leonardo MaugeriSenior Vice President of Eni S.p.A
“The geological structure of the earth has not been explored thoroughly enough to conclude that the declining trend in discoveries.”
- Abdullah Jum'ah CEO of Saudi Aramco
“I believe that in-place conventional and non-conventional liquid resources may ultimately total between 13 trillion and 16 trillion barrels and that only a small fraction (1.1 trillion) has been extracted to date.”
4. TECHNOLOGY STABILITY
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http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org
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http://www.goodplanet.org
Use Nature Forces
Go Renewablehttp://tech.c4ads.org
ZeroEmission City
http://www.bustler.net
Masdar CityMasdar City
THE ULTIMATE ANSWER
?Is this the peak oil era?
YESNO
Doesn’t matter!
“ No matter what else happens, this is the century in
which we must learn to live without fossil fuels. ”
- David GoodsteinWriter of “Out of Gas”
What the public say?
http://oilpeak.webs.com
IS THIS THE PEAK OIL ERA?
Do we have to wait?
Green eraOil era
5. OUR THEORY
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