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The myth of the oil crisis : overcoming the challenges of depletion, geopolitics, and global warming
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The myth of the oil crisis : overcoming the challenges of depletion, geopolitics, and global warming

Autor: Robin M Mills
Editorial: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, ©2008.
Edición/Formato: Libro : Inglés (eng)
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Tipo de material: Recurso en Internet
Tipo de documento: Libro/Texto, Recurso en Internet
Todos autores / colaboradores: Robin M Mills
ISBN: 9780313354793 0313354790 9780313364983 0313364982
Número OCLC: 191922507
Descripción: xviii, 317 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contenido: 1. Introduction -- 2. Opposing viewpoints -- The geologists -- Inevitability of decline -- Pessimism on the resource base -- The consequences -- The economists -- Elasticity of supply and demand -- Optimism on the resource base -- The militarists -- The environmentalists -- The neo-Luddites -- 3. Bust and boom : how we got to where we are today -- The doldrums, 1986-1998 -- The hurricane, 1999-2007 -- Demand bites back -- The dog that didn't bark -- 4. Half-full or half-empty? Conventional oil supply -- Peak oil -- Hubbert's curve -- The reserves conundrum -- Exploration potential -- Surveys of global exploration potential -- Reserves growth -- Enhanced oil recovery -- The fallacy of "easy oil" -- Sources of new supply -- Summary -- 5. Dead dinosaurs? : the major oil nations -- Saudi Arabia -- Saudi reserves -- Technology and technical problems -- Exploration potential -- Decline in Saudi production? -- Could Saudi Arabia be replaced? -- Iran -- Iraq -- United Arab Emirates -- Kuwait -- Qatar -- Other Middle East -- Libya -- Algeria -- Sudan -- Nigeria -- Angola -- Russia -- Kazakhstan -- Azerbaijan -- Venezuela -- Mexico -- Brazil -- United States -- Canada -- Norway -- United Kingdom -- China -- India -- New frontiers -- West and Southern Africa -- East Africa -- Interior Africa -- South and Southeast Asia and Australasia -- Central and South America -- Arctic -- Antarctic -- 6. Scraping the barrel? Unconventional oil supply -- Natural gas liquids -- Tight oil -- Heavy and extra-heavy oil -- Oil sands -- Oil shale -- Gas to liquids -- Coal and biomass to liquids -- Biofuels -- Kinetics : the speed of commercialization -- 7. Gas giants -- The peak gas theory -- Global gas resources -- Unconventional gas -- The role of gas -- 8. A dangerous neighborhood? Supply, investment, and geopolitics -- Barriers to investment -- Resource nationalism and the "oil curse" -- Energy security -- Energy security as interdependence -- 9. Keeping the lights on: energy demand -- Worthy substitutes : other energy sources -- Resource constraints on alternative fuels -- Energy intensity of the energy system -- Other consequences of alternative energies -- Personal virtue? Efficiency -- Oiling the wheels : transport fuel demand -- Synthesis -- 10. Green oil : saving the environment -- Local impacts -- Global climate change -- Carbon sequestration -- Carbon intensity of unconventional oil -- Year zero : the neo-Luddites -- 11. Conclusion.
Responsabilidad: Robin M. Mills.
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