izentrop wrote:Countries that have passed peak oil
At the end of June, oil had to go above $ 80 a barrel. Usually, when everyone agrees, the opposite happens. Oil is teasing. Global demand is 98 million barrels per day (mb / d), 2 million from the record set in 2019.
After a vacation, the barrel comes back all tanned. We will see that next month. For Brent in London, it posted an index of $ 73,03 ($ 75,13 at the end of June) and the WTI in New York at $ 68,74 against ($ 73,56 at the end of June).
I see with satisfaction that you provide arguments to say that oil production will have a hard time exceeding its record, and therefore that the scenarios of continued growth until the end of the XNUMXst century are science fiction.
And to anticipate a response, it's not better with coal, even before covid.
https://www.connaissancedesenergies.org ... 9-191125-0
The reality is that we are probably close to the historic peak of energy consumption, that alternative energies are far insufficient to ensure the growth of fossil-free energy, and that humanity is preparing to enter the 2nd phase. of industrial civilization, that of the decrease in resources; and climatic problems, next, it will be gnognotte ...