Mann also offers no data on tight oil production and price, but here are the key facts. In 2012, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the U.S. consumed about 18.5 million barrels a day (mb/d) of liquid fuels and produced about 11 mb/d. Only about 7 mb/d of that 11 was actual crude oil, and about 1 mb/d of that was from tight oil. The non-crude liquids the US produced have less energy content than crude, and some of it cannot be made into vehicular fuel.

One cannot easily make a case for incipient U.S. "energy independence" on the basis of 1 mb/d of new tight oil production. A host of dubious assumptions and data distortions underlie the recent energy independence forecasts which I will not delve into here, but I have examined and debunked most of the reports that Mann cites, including those from the IEA (here and here), Ed Morse at Citigroup (here and here), and Leonardo Maugeri.

Are Methane Hydrates Really Going to Change Geopolitics? - Technology - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/print/2013/05/are-methane-hydrates-really-going-to-change-geopolitics/275275/

E2E4: spíš "kotransportace", nebo jak to říct :-) nevím, jak by skleněné izolátory nesly, kdyby ještě musely zvládat vibrace způsobené kladkama.. i když asi by se ten hliníkový drát odvíjel přeci jen relativně pomalu...

mimochodem... víš, že pokud čepuješ benzín či naftu do auta tempem 1l/s (realistický odhad), tak tou hadicí protéká výkon asi 165 MW? tedy, kdyby se měly elektromobily dobíjely stejným tempem, jako osobní auta, tak celý dnešní Temelín zvládne v jednu chvíli dobíjet tak max. 15 elektromobilů? (a to nebereme v úvahu ztráty v rozvodné síti...)

XCHAOS: No a dokonce bys mohl kombinovat oboji - kongenerace elektriny a hliniku. :)

E2E4: samozřejmě. vždyť o tom mluvím už několik let. jednoduše by si místo ropovodů měl hliníkovody, no (vlastně můžeš použít vedení vysokého napětí, akorát drát bude na kladkách jako u lanovky, a bude se po trase posouvat)

XCHAOS: To ale nejsou dobijeci baterie - vskutecnosti palis hlinik, stejne jako bys palil uhli - jen je to pomalejsi. V hlinikarne se zase z oxidu hliniku dela hlinik - elektrolyzou.. Nejak nevim cemu to pomuze, hlinikovy cyklus bude jiste jeste mene navratny nez napr vodikovy..

Europeans are buying two bikes for every car | Grist
http://grist.org/living/europeans-are-buying-two-bikes-for-every-car/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

o hliníkových bateriích jsem mluvil už před několika lety... aneb budoucnost patří aluminiu:
Will Future Tesla Cars Use Metal-Air Batteries? - Slashdot
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/04/23/199248/will-future-tesla-cars-use-metal-air-batteries

Ropný zlom sa odkladá? Nie tak rýchlo! Blog - Alexander Ač (blog.sme.sk)
http://ac.blog.sme.sk/c/326681/Ropny-zlom-sa-odklada-Nie-tak-rychlo.html

Resource Insights: Aging giant oil fields, not new discoveries are the key to future oil supply
http://resourceinsights.blogspot.sk/2013/04/aging-giant-oil-fields-not-new.html

Some vested interest group played a dirty hand in getting me, Mark Anthony, completely banned on Seeking Alpha. My previous articles are still there. But I bet they will ultimately remove all traces of them eventually...

My study shows that Bakken well declines MUCH FASTER than even Arthur Berman claimed. For example I summed up production from 3062 Bakken wells that has been continuously producing in all the months from May to Nov 2012, including 128 wells that only started in May 2012. That's the entirety of all wells I can find that has been producing continuously, but excluding a few that produced for a while and then shut down.

In May 2012, those existing wells produced at average of 506869 Barrels per day (BOE), with gas and oil production lumped together as Barrel of Oil Equivalence (BOE).

In Nov 2012, only six months later, these same 3062 wells produced at 353040 BOE/day. That's a drop of -30.35% in merely six months. That's averaging at -0.2% drop per day, or -5.9% drop per month, or -51.5% drop per year.

The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: April 10, 2013
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/9940#comment-956620

The Secret of the Seven Sisters - Special series - Al Jazeera English
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2013/04/201344105231487582.html

Econbrowser: The death of peak oil
http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2013/04/the_death_of_pe.html

Resource Insights: Will the final blow for America’s shale gas ‘revolution’ be high prices?
http://www.resourceinsights.blogspot.sk/2013/03/will-final-blow-for-americas-shale-gas.html

Jeden z posledních článků V. Smila. Za celý článek nezmínil cenu ropy...s ní to už až tak růžově nevypadá.

When the final figures for the fourth quarter of 2012 are in, the world will have a new crude oil production record: the total for the first three quarters was about 1 percent ahead of the 2011 total. This is a remarkable achievement for a commodity with annual output that now surpasses, for the first time ever, 4 billion metric tons and which has been, for decades, the largest source of fossil energy and the most valuable item of international commerce

http://www.vaclavsmil.com/wp-content/uploads/Memories-of-Peak-Oil-%E2%80%94-The-American-Magazine.pdf

Aktualizované prognózy J. Laherréra.

http://tribune-pic-petrolier.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/oilgasprodforecasts-JL-1.pdf

Russia, the second largest natural gas producer closely behind the U.S., faces a
struggle between declining production from ageing fields and new expensive and time
consuming developments in Northern Siberia and offshore. Russian gas production
reached a first peak in 1989 when the largest fields passed peak production. Gazprom
production never reached that level again. Ageing fields force Russia to speed up the
development of new fields. The developments of Shtokmanskoye in the Barents Sea
and of other fields in Yamal are delayed. If the gas fields in the Yamal Peninsula
would be developed in time, they would have produced 310-360 bcm in 2030
according to Gazprom. But even this will not be sufficient to compensate for the
decline of ageing current fields. Domestic consumption in Russia and growing demand
from Asia will put increasing pressure on volumes available for export from Eurasia to
Europe in the coming years.

Celý report -
http://www.energywatchgroup.org/fileadmin/global/pdf/EWG-update2013_long_18_03_2013.pdf

Zdá se, že USA čeká druhý peak :)

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/nov/13/business/la-fi-us-saudi-oil-20121113