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Welcome to the "Energy Thought of the Moment" -- a crisp, tweet-like quote, that is easy and fast to read, yet still thought-provoking.
| Here's an easy way to visualize the surprising onset of Peak Oil: Take a sheet of paper, and fold it on itself 8 times. Easy until you get to the 7th fold, and all of a sudden, you're stuck. | Reference: The Seventh Fold blog. |
| The average person in China used the equivalent of 460 pounds of oil per year and the average American used 6,280 pounds as of 2005. To look at it another way, one person in China uses about the same amount of energy per year (gasoline, electricity, heating, everything) as the average American refrigerator. | Reference: The Oil Drum, 16 March 2010. |
The recent study by the US Joint Forces says that by 2012, world wide oil surplus production will likely peak. How will this affect the way we live and communicate? Will telecommuting lose its stigma? Will energy outages make e-readers less dependable and we return to print publications, including books? When you lose power – as we all have in storms – you can't use these gadgets. |
Reference: US Department of Defense, 2010 Joint Operating Environment Study. |
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