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Hubbert's peak : the impending world oil shortage /

"In 1956, geophysicist M. King Hubbert - then working at the Shell research lab in Houston - predicted that U.S. oil production would reach its highest level in the early 1970s. Though roundly criticized and occasionally ridiculed by oil experts and economists, Hubbert's prediction came tr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Deffeyes, Kenneth S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Overview
  • Origin of oil
  • Oil reservoirs and oil traps
  • Finding it
  • Drilling methods
  • Size and discoverability of oil fields
  • Hubbert revisited
  • Rate plots
  • Future of fossil fuels
  • Alternative energy sources
  • New outlook.