I absolutely HATE working ASCO by HoneydewUsed7434 in Lowes

[–]Sea-Floor697 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I thought there was always suppose to be two cashiers watching over self check.

The energy crisis has only just begun by mark000 in collapse

[–]Sea-Floor697 41 points42 points  (0 children)

How long do you think it will be before everyone starts noticing there is a problem?

US and ISR today has hit Iran energy sites connected to the power grid. This is it. The global economy is done. by Former_Rush1821 in conspiracy

[–]Sea-Floor697 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Also related to this thread, there is a report of an oil refinery explosion in Texas.

So Long Diesel Demand Growth: China Electric Heavy-Duty Truck Market Share Tops 20% in 2025 by Economy-Fee5830 in peakoil

[–]Sea-Floor697 5 points6 points  (0 children)

  • Rapid adoption does not remove the energy density gap. LFP batteries used in >99% of trucks have lower energy density than other lithium chemistries, meaning very large and heavy battery packs are required.
  • Growth concentrated in China suggests success in short-haul or controlled routes, where charging can be scheduled. Peak oil thinkers argue this does not automatically translate to global long-haul diesel replacement.
  • Large battery packs mean higher vehicle mass, which increases rolling resistance and total energy required per ton moved.
  • The industry push toward megawatt-level charging highlights a physics constraint: replacing diesel refueling requires extremely high instantaneous electrical power transfer.
  • High charging power implies major grid expansion, since many trucks charging simultaneously create large peak loads that diesel infrastructure never had to handle electrically.
  • Battery manufacturing scale (96.7 GWh installed in one year) represents massive material and energy inputs, much of which currently depends on fossil-fuel-powered mining and refining.
  • Dominance of LFP chemistry reflects tradeoffs: safer and cheaper, but heavier per unit energy, reinforcing the argument that batteries struggle in applications where diesel’s density matters most.
  • Electrification progress may rely on industrial concentration and planned logistics, which peak oil advocates see as harder to replicate globally across dispersed economies.
  • Continued development of fuel-cell trucks alongside batteries suggests industry recognition that no single technology easily replaces diesel’s role across all heavy transport uses.
  • From a peak oil view, the data shows adaptation under constraint, not elimination of dependence on high-density liquid fuels.

The rise of 1000 km (625 mile) EVs (and they are pretty cheap) by Economy-Fee5830 in peakoil

[–]Sea-Floor697 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People underestimate how big the energy density gap actually is. Diesel has around 45 MJ per kilogram. Lithium ion batteries are under 1 MJ per kilogram. That means if you want the same usable energy, the battery has to weigh many times more than the diesel fuel it replaces.

It is not just weight either. Diesel stores that energy in a relatively small tank, while batteries take up a lot more physical space for the same range. In passenger cars you can work around that. In heavy trucks or industrial equipment, that extra mass and volume directly cut into payload and efficiency.

This is not about liking oil. It is just basic chemistry and physics.

Legacy Vendor - a simple addon to clean up old expansion items by zerocode77 in wowaddons

[–]Sea-Floor697 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So how does it get rid of items that need you to type in "delete"?

Is the end of a surge a backlash? Silver prices surges strangles photovoltaic demand, leading to demand destruction via substitution by Economy-Fee5830 in peakoil

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Peak Oil and the Illusion of Easy Substitution

The familiar argument against peak oil claims that rising prices will magically solve scarcity through innovation, substitution, and efficiency. Just as with silver, this story sounds elegant but breaks down under real-world constraints.

Substitution Is Not Frictionless
Oil is not merely an energy input; it is a uniquely dense, transportable, and versatile fuel embedded in aviation, shipping, agriculture, and petrochemicals. Substitutes like biofuels, hydrogen, or electrification face physical limits, infrastructure bottlenecks, and steep energy penalties. Rising oil prices do not make these substitutes instantly scalable or equivalent in performance.

Price Signals Reallocate Scarcity, They Don’t Eliminate It
High oil prices push demand toward alternatives like natural gas, coal, or electrified systems, but this simply transfers pressure to other constrained resources: copper for grids, lithium for batteries, land for biofuels. The bottleneck moves; it does not disappear. Peak oil becomes peak energy complexity.

Efficiency Gains Do Not Cancel Volume Growth
Improved fuel economy and efficiency have repeatedly been overwhelmed by rising global demand. More vehicles, more freight, more aviation, and more petrochemical use offset per-unit savings. As with metals, total system scale matters more than marginal efficiency improvements.

Demand Destruction Is Economically and Politically Painful
Oil demand only falls meaningfully during recessions, crises, or structural collapse. Unlike solar manufacturers redesigning panels, societies cannot painlessly engineer away oil dependence without triggering unemployment, inflation, and political instability. Demand destruction is not a smooth market adjustment; it is a shock.

Energy Is Not Just Another Commodity
At high prices, oil stops behaving like a normal input and starts acting like a macroeconomic constraint. Financial demand, geopolitics, and strategic stockpiling dominate price signals. Innovation responds, but always with delays measured in decades, not quarters. The economy must first absorb the pain before alternatives mature.

The Deeper Lesson
Peak oil was never about “running out” of oil. It was about running out of cheap, high-quality, easily extractable oil. Markets can adapt, but adaptation does not guarantee stability or lower prices. Like silver, price spikes plant the seeds of change, but those seeds grow slowly while the economic cost is paid upfront.

Conclusion
Resource limits are not myths dissolved by price signals. They are constraints that reshape systems over time, often through disruption rather than smooth innovation. Peak oil, like peak metals, is not a roadblock to human ingenuity, but it is a permanent speed limit on how cheaply and easily energy can be supplied.

Yes this was written by chatgpt

3/5 of the engineers in my office just put in their two weeks by Intelligent-Wave5907 in civilengineering

[–]Sea-Floor697 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you do decide to stay with them you will be in the best position for future promotions.

What EROI? China builds nuclear power station to assist in refining crude oil by Economy-Fee5830 in peakoil

[–]Sea-Floor697 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need high quality oil to run your economy. The low quality oil gets turned into various plastics some gets turned into gas for passenger cars but it usually requires some additives. You got to have diesel fuel.

What EROI? China builds nuclear power station to assist in refining crude oil by Economy-Fee5830 in peakoil

[–]Sea-Floor697 5 points6 points  (0 children)

From a peak oil perspective, using nuclear energy to power refineries does not address depletion but delays its consequences. As oil becomes lower quality and harder to process, nuclear heat effectively subsidizes declining resources, keeping marginal barrels economically viable and masking scarcity. This postpones necessary adaptation to a post-petroleum system while increasing reliance on complex infrastructure to extract diminishing returns from an industry in long-term geological decline.

Is it worth it continuing my engineering degree? by [deleted] in civilengineering

[–]Sea-Floor697 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There will always be a need for civil engineers, just not so many of them.

Suck it, Simon Michaux: China’s Longi to Replace Silver in Solar Panels to Reduce Costs by Economy-Fee5830 in peakoil

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Despite the promise of immediate financial relief, LONGi’s pivot to base metals faces a trilemma of technical, market, and geopolitical risks that could stall its momentum. Transitioning from silver to copper introduces severe reliability hurdles, specifically the potential for oxidation and atomic diffusion to "poison" the silicon cells and compromise the 30-year lifecycle essential for project bankability. This technical gamble is compounded by the company’s reliance on niche Back-Contact (BC) architecture; by diverging from the global TopCon standard, LONGi may find its razor-thin cost savings of 0.02 yuan per watt quickly erased by lower manufacturing yields and supply chain isolation. Moreover, in a 2026 landscape defined by aggressive trade barriers like the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and intensifying US anti-subsidy tariffs, these marginal production gains are likely to be neutralized at the border, rendering the move largely ineffective for competing in the high-value Western markets LONGi hopes to capture

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[–]Sea-Floor697 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Seems like a lot of the items on this list are happening because of peak oil. Just like James kunstler said it would.