This topic could not be more timely – one day into the new administration and at the beginning of inevitable changes to energy policy which will affect all of those concerned with conservation.  The speaker provides a clear, quantitative picture of the drivers behind these pending changes.

Peak oil is the premise that world oil production has reached its maximum and will soon begin to decline, with major economic and social implications. This presentation discusses evidence demonstrating the peak is imminent, and supply alternatives such as enhanced oil recovery, nuclear power, coal, oil sands and oil shale, hydrogen, and renewables. It then explores the likely impacts of peak oil on society and concludes with possible demand-side solutions, including the findings of Portland’s Peak Oil Task Force.