Fossil fuels and peak oils week 3

http://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/

This site gives good information in the form of graphs and tables estimating the amount of reserves we have left and how long we can keep depending on oil. It also provides recent articles and news about oil supplies and plans to become sustainable.

http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html

This is very useful because it gives you an up to date approximation of the world and USA population. In addition it is a catalogue of the business census and economic indicators.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/oil-drilling.htm

This site offers an inside look on what the process of oil drilling entails. This is good information to know from locating the oil using infrared technology, to drilling the location and then extracting the crude oil. Also you can read about how they make different types of oil products through separation of the crude oil.

http://www.theoildrum.com/

This site is a worldwide blog that discusses the possible amounts of oil left on the earth and how long it will take for us to run out. There are several different scenarios discussed with different factors contributing to when we will actually be dry of oil.

http://www.oildecline.com/

In this site there are mathematical, historical, graphical and practical predictions of the amount of oil left and how long it will last us. It includes predictions from Einstein to mathematical calculations by modern scientists. There are useful figures in this page as well.

Articles:

Kerr, Richard. "World Oil Crunch Looming?" Science (2008). Www.sciencemag.org. Web.

This article talks about the current oil usage and the usage of fossil fuels in our past. It says that it took 140 years for us to consume our first trillion barrels of oil and that is expected to be used in a lot shorter time than of before. It projects that the world will be out of oil within the latest 50 years, depending on our consumption patterns, that are expected to increase through 2030. It gives graphs of the projected oil consumption, and gives insight on what Opec is all about, which is make money.

Kerr, Richard. "The Looming Oil Crisis Could Arrive Uncomfortably Soon." Science (2007). Www.sciencemag.org. Web.

In this article it is focusing on the problem that we are faced with, which is oil on the earth running out and us having to find another resource to provide us with all our lifestyles that we have grown so used to. He predicts three different scenarios of when Oil will reach its peak, depending on if we have high or low resources.