The Oracle of Oil  -  Mason Inman

a maverick geologist's quest for a sustainable future

KORTE INHOUD

The first comprehensive biography of Marion King Hubbert, the "father of peak oil."
n 1956, geophysicist and Shell Oil researcher Marion King Hubbert forecast that American oil production would peak surprisingly soon and decline steadily thereafter. Hubbert's prediction outraged the architects of the US oil industry at the time but it was largely correct. Amid a twenty-first century shale boom, Hubbert's logic remains a source of debate. Richly researched, The Oracle of Oil rescues the history of a man who s...
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2016 Uitgever: Norton 413 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0393239683 ISBN-13: 9780393239683