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| Format physique additionnel : | Online version: Mills, Robin M., 1976- Myth of the oil crisis. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2008 (OCoLC)608988787 |
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| Type d’ouvrage : | Ressource Internet |
| Format : | Livre, Ressource Internet |
| Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : |
Robin M Mills |
| ISBN : | 9780313354793 0313354790 9780313364983 0313364982 |
| Numéro OCLC : | 191922507 |
| Description : | xviii, 317 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contenu : | 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. |
| Responsabilité : | Robin M. Mills. |
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"Geologist, economist, and petroleum industry insider Mills makes an intelligent case for oil's continuing role as a major, growing energy source. A Herculean task, one would think, given public sentiment on the matter. Mills manages it by first neatly dividing opposing viewpoints into five camps: geologists (those who espouse peak oil theory), economists (the markets will work it out), militarists (use power to secure energy supplies), environmentalists (fossil fuels: no), and no-Luddites (fossil fuels, consumption, and materialism: no). He then conquers their positions with lively, exhaustive sourced arguements to say that there may be more conventional oil than reported, colossal unconventional sources, and plentiful energy substitutes. Mills shows deep understanding of the complexity of the issue, and while promising no easy fixes, he is yet hopeful: gloomy predictions do not resemble the real world and take no account of human integrity." - Library Journal, Starred Review
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