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More copies of this ISBN:Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortageby Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Synopses & ReviewsReview:"Deffeyes has reached a conclusion with far-reaching consequences for the entire industrialized world. . . . The conclusion is this: in somewhere between two and six years from now, worldwide oil production will peak. After that, chronic shortages will become a way of life. The 100-year reign of King Oil will be over." Fred Guterl, Newsweek Review:"A most readable handbook. . . . If [Deffeyes] is right we have, at most, two or three years in which to prepare for yet another price shock, and to accelerate our move away from oil as fuel. The strength of the book lies in its solid background and well-explained basis for that single prediction." Stuart Young, Nature Review:"Deffeyes makes a persuasive case. . . . This is an oilman and geologist's assessment of the future, grounded in cold mathematics. And it's frightening." Paul Raeburn, Scientific American Review:"An important new book." Robert Kuttner, Boston Globe Review:"The story behind Hubbert's analysis?is told with engaging wit, humor, and great insight. . . . Deffeyes writes with the taut reasoning of a scientist and the passion of someone raised in the industry. . . . His background is ideal for the subject, and the book is a gem. . . . Read Hubbert's Peak." Brian J. Skinner, American Scientist Review:"[Some] experts . . . worry that the global peak in production will come in the next decade. . . . A heavyweight has now joined this gloomy chorus. Kenneth Deffeyes argues in a lively new book that global oil production could peak as soon as 2004." The Economist Review:"A persuasive prophecy. Hubbert's story is important and needs to be told. I suspect that historians in years to come will recognise Hubbert's Peak as a historical turning point." Tim Burnhill, New Scientist About the AuthorKenneth S. Deffeyes is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He grew up in the oilfields; his father was a pioneer petroleum engineer. At the Shell Oil research laboratory in Houston, he was a colleague of M. King Hubbert. He joined the Princeton faculty in 1967 and continued to participate in the petroleum industry as a consultant and as an expert witness. General readers best know Deffeyes as the guide/mentor in John McPhee's series of popular books on geology, collected and republished under the title Annals of the Former World. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix CHAPTER 1 Overview 1 CHAPTER 2 The Origin of Oil 14 CHAPTER 3 Oil Reservoirs and Oil Traps 40 CHAPTER 4 Finding It 70 CHAPTER 5 Drilling Methods 88 CHAPTER 6 Size and Discoverability of Oil Fields 113 CHAPTER 7 Hubbert Revisited 133 CHAPTER 8 Rate Plots 150 CHAPTER 9 The Future of Fossil Fuels 159 CHAPTER 10 Alternative Energy Sources 176 CHAPTER 11 A New Outlook 186 Notes 191 Index 205 What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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