On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 02:05:23AM +0530, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > The Oil Drum is the biggest - but lots of Peak Oil websites have > crashed and burned in the past few years.
The demise of TOD seems to be organisatorial. The key contributing bloggers made an exit to left way before. There are a number of heir-apparents, but no single stop shop for all things peak nonrenewable emerging so far. > What in your opinion has sucked out the public interest from Peak Oil? I suspect the propaganda (unconventional sources) and short attention span, plus absence of a handy apocalypse. Net energy cliff, demand destruction, probably too abstract to be considered a threat at visceral level. > A few large discoveries in the Americas notwithstanding, it isn't like The discoveries are not large, and mostly nonrecoverable. According to recent graphs the Bakken story looks already over -- further data will tell. We'll read about it somewhere, but not on TOD. The king is dead, long live the king. > Oil is a renewable resource.
