Peak Oil – Visually Explained

Posted by admin on October 29th, 2009 and filed under oil production peak | 25 Comments »

A Quick 3 minute video visually explaining Peak Oil, what oil is used for, and what the future may hold with regards to Peak Oil.

This is the culmination of my year-long thesis project looking at how Graphic Design can help communicate a complex topic such as Peak Oil.

Duration : 0:3:6


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25 Responses

  1. Leander290 Says:

    Schopenhauer said …
    Schopenhauer said truth goes through three stages: 1) Ridicule, 2) Vehement opposition and finally 3) Acceptance as self-evident.

    Peak Oil is slowly reaching stage 3, too late to avoid some major problems that could’ve been avoided or mitigate some major problems that couldn’t be avoided. Also, so few people understand the significance of Peak Oil, if they know about it all. We have to sit down to a “banquet of consequences” and most of the guests think they’re turning up for their usual meal.

  2. transitionus Says:

    wow this is …
    wow this is excellent. thanks!

  3. Martocciaweb Says:

    When the best new …
    When the best new discovery America can make is several miles under the seabed in the Gulf of Mexico using multi-billion dollar platforms, it’s hard to argue that the era of cheap oil is over. Current major oilfields are all in decline. Oil is priced at Marginal Cost (MC) of production – basic economics 101. The MC for new oil is now hugely expensive – and getting more expensive by the day.

  4. frithwks Says:

    The two choices are …
    The two choices are probably going to play out together… Clear explanation well presented… Not sure about polarizing the options though.

  5. decyphersmc Says:

    Jimmy Haslip ” …
    Jimmy Haslip “Bronkelly Powered”

  6. Rawdiswar Says:

    Great beat in the …
    Great beat in the background, what’s the name of the track?

  7. MrG125 Says:

    This video is a …
    This video is a gentle way of saying “We’re fucked”

  8. TonsofFun777 Says:

    Do you suffer from …
    Do you suffer from DID?

  9. bchin86 Says:

    We are too late.
    We are too late.

  10. sandcut1 Says:

    It is true, US peak …
    It is true, US peak was in 1970 this is a fact not something you can question or disagree with, the world may be a peak oil right now, but from what I have seen this is uncertain.

  11. k00gan Says:

    For USA only, not …
    For USA only, not for the whole world.

  12. noone120000 Says:

    t boon pickens said …
    t boon pickens said peak oil reached around the 70’s, don’t know if this is true.

  13. larareddin Says:

    Does anyone know if …
    Does anyone know if there is a Spanish translation of this video anywhere????

  14. mrjdparker Says:

    Oh well, If he said …
    Oh well, If he said it I am sure we are fine…

    Here is a problem, OPEC quotas are based on stated reserves with no transparency. We are fucked.

  15. csommer Says:

    That’s probably the …
    That’s probably the same thing the Anasazi’s, Mayans, and the people of Galopagos thought as well.

  16. csommer Says:

    Exceptionally well …
    Exceptionally well done. Takes a very complicated issue and distills down to a concise 3 minute video. Hat’s off.

  17. crackfe Says:

    WTF man, where the …
    WTF man, where the have you been living?….
    because in the world i’m living there is an economic crisis and oil is getting more and more expensive

  18. delatroy Says:

    Its people like you …
    Its people like you that let him say those things.

  19. secretkgbuy Says:

    Russian Premier …
    Russian Premier Vladimir Putin says research shows that Russia has enough oil and gas for itself and for Europe for the next 100 years.

  20. SpartanOnFire Says:

    Saying it doesn’t …
    Saying it doesn’t exist won’t make it go away.

  21. drewmandan Says:

    Bullshit. I believe …
    Bullshit. I believe in peak oil and I also believe, based on actually LOOKING at the evidence (something most environmentalists don’t ever do) that AGW is not as clear cut as Al Gore would have us believe. Actually, I shouldn’t use the word ‘environmentalist’ either, because in some sense, I’m an environmentalist. I think the Earth should be reforested, for example. Does that blow your mind?

  22. freedom9259 Says:

    A good video, but …
    A good video, but it’s very unfortunate that political ideologues come with unscientific theories about self refilling oil wells and the same people also deem that climate change is a scam. We should leave politics out of this.

  23. freedom9259 Says:

    An excellent video!
    An excellent video!

  24. Matthijsb Says:

    No because when …
    No because when that time has come, the economy will collapse and we will have no more money to invent new technologies. The Western world will become Ethiopia.

  25. StevenJamesJ Says:

    Trotskyist …
    Trotskyist overtones always sour these kind of promos for me. Too polarised, too political.

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