The academic field of "economic geology" seems to cover the exploitation of resources rather than stewardship of the resources [TOD link]. If somebody in this research area had actually wanted to or had the charter to, they could have done an impartial study of resource depletion based on some [...]
My model seems to match the observed trends even more precisely and further reinforces the fundamental idea of entropic dispersion of travel velocities. Instead of using a paper money tracking system as [...]
If dispersive discovery proceeds with an exponentially accelerated search over a spatially dispersed volume then we see the classic Hubbert curve -- a Logistic sigmoid for cumulative growth. Applying the technique of Hubbert Linearization to that formulation, we plot a straight line, as shown to the right [...] 
From an IBM television commercial currently making the rounds:“Math can do anything … it can fix the economy.” [...] 
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George Monbiot meets ... Fatih Birol on video for 12 minutes.
After having studied material nucleation and growth processes for a good portion of my grad school tenure, I think I can grasp some of the fundamentals that go into oil reservoir size distributions. I see many similarities between the two processes. [...] 
I found a quite eye-opening use of the news archive feature of news.google.com. I typed in search strings for "oil" and "discovery" and "timeline", and then when you invoke the timeline view, you see this:
Dispersive Discovery curves for exponential growth search rates:She may be traditional, but she isn't long-suffering, nor terribly quiet and can hold a grudge when appropriate.
Wife, [...]
"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope." -- Martin Luther King Jr.We have on our hands a huge swindle pertaining to the reserve growth [...]
"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby
Vitalis on July 4, 2008 - 3:36am
Yes, if L is a sum of independent exponentials with means Lo and L1, then [...]
"WHT analysis would have been important in the 1920-1930's but its 2008 now and they seems to have [...]
D(x) = x * (1-exp(-k/x))dD(x)/dx [...] enclave (n) : a distinct territorial, cultural, or social unit enclosed within or as if within foreign territorySoon to come: the Garrison, the Fortress, the Anchor, the White Elephant. [...]
"You know, I just told you that there's about 27 million gallons of diesel and gasoline that could be from domestically produced crude oil that's not being utilized.
And not only that, we can explore in environmentally friendly ways. New technologies enables [...]
"We're more likely to see other companies as collaborators rather than adversaries ... We aren't so much competing with other as we are competing with the Earth. And maybe that's a healthy way to look at it." -- George Kirkland, Chairman and Managing Director Nigeria [...]
Q:"why look for your lost keys only under the streetlamp?"
A:"cuz that's where the light is"
Conventional wisdom [...]
Net Energy Analysis of the U.S. Oil and Gas Exploration [...]
Sometimes I get a bit freaked out by the ferocity and doggedness of the so-called global warming deniers. The latest outpost for these contrarians, climateaudit.org, shows lots of activity, with much gnashing over numbers [...]
API has underwritten Edward Morrisseys travel expenses to attend the Chevron location tour in Houston and Corpus Christi, Texas. Edward is not [...]
I like reading Steven Weber's posts at HuffPo : Oilfinger. Weber has a very dense, elliptical, and snarky style, which keeps me interested even though I can't always pin down his ultimate point.There are two contexts for the use of a Hubbert/Logistic curve:
1. logistic demographic modeling as initially proposed by Pierre Franois Verhulst.
2. curve fitting as Hubbert did.
WHT's arguments are dealing with the first context whereas you are putting yourself in the [...]
"It's true, it works," Dr. Roy said. "Everyone told me, 'Rustum, don't be fooled. He put electrodes in there.' "
But there are no [...]
