£46.70

Energy Odyssey: The Hubbert Trojan Horse Scenario

Energy Technology

Price data last checked 104 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

We'll watch every seller, every day. One email when your price arrives.

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 10 months ago.

£47 today · all-time low £47 (Aug 2025) · usually the usual

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 212 days • 212 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 212 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £47 (145 days, 68.4%)

Price range: £47 - £49

Price levels: 2 different prices over 212 days

Description

In the Odyssey, by Homer, Odysseus goes on a long arduous journey after the Trojan War, which was a titanic military conflict. This is similar to our own arduous energy journey we must take. In science, though, there are also titanic conflicts regarding the proper analytical theory or the most appropriate strategy for future solutions similar to a Trojan War. This book is about just such a scientific debate over the concept of natural resource scarcity and its effects on economic growth also called the scarcity and growth debate. In general technology has been able to overcome scarcity for all of human kind for many centuries, but that does not mean the world does not face the prospect of scarcity, like for example how to reduce climate change and still be able to have a robust economy. A more subtle scarcity and growth debate is presented here in regard to a geologist named M. King Hubbert, who predicted that petroleum production would follow a trend and eventually attain a peak in its supply followed by a downward projection, which could cause economic disruption. Most commentators have long since given up on Hubbert’s theory and have declared that the scarcity and growth debate is over. But there is a Hubbert Trojan Horse in this debate that suggests in fact the debate is not over, and the possibility of a peak in supply is relevant. The different sides of the debate are brought out including how shale-oil plays a role in energy supplies. First different energy types are compared with each other to show why petroleum is such a valuable energy resource and how petroleum energy resources can actually subsidize other lower grade energy resources. This is explained within the context of an energy dialectic. Then the mineral exploration process is explained to show why there can be a peak in production which also happened for whale-oil production and will happen, or may have already happened, for U.S. shale-oil production. The energy to economy relationship is also shown to see why oil is so valuable to our economy, although global climate change aspects are also addressed. Finally, different scenarios are forecast based on past economic declines such as that of the Roman Empire and the Soviet Union. About the Author: Douglas B. Reynolds is a Professor of Petroleum and Energy Economics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He was a practicing mechanical engineer specializing in energy technology before he became an energy economist. He taught economics in Kazakhstan after the fall of Soviet Union before he moved to Fairbanks, Alaska in 1997. Reynolds has analyzed petroleum taxes, natural gas pipelines and coal heating systems. He has lived, worked and taught around the world in such places as Mexico, Europe and Asia. He has written numerous academic treatises, journal articles and books on energy.

Product Specifications

Format: paperback
ASIN: 163648252X
Category: Books > Subjects > Science, Nature & Maths > Engineering & Technology > Energy Technology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 25 June 2021
Listed Since: 26 June 2021

Barcode

No barcode data available

Energy Odyssey: The Hubbert Trojan Horse Scenario

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 10 months ago.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Institutions Curse: Natural Resources, Politics, and Development (Business and Public Policy)

Routledge Caspian Energy Politics - Azerbaijan Kazakhstan Book

Industrial/Chemical Process Design

The 2023-2028 World Outlook for Benzene

Sustainable Growth and Resource Productivity: Economic and Global Policy Issues

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Risk Assessment and Management: 1 (Industrial Ecology and Environmental Management, 1)

The Energy of Russia: Hydrocarbon Culture and Climate Change

Energy Flows, Material Cycles and Global Development: A Process Engineering Approach to the Earth System (Environmental Science and Engineering)

European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2018: 9

Want, Waste or War?: The Global Resource Nexus and the Struggle for Land, Energy, Food, Water and Minerals (Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management)

Routledge - Managing Renewable Natural Resources in Developing Countries

Singapore, the Energy Economy: From The First Refinery To The End Of Cheap Oil, 1960-2010 (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy)

The Political Economy of National and Energy Security (Energy Policies, Politics and Prices)

Singapore, the Energy Economy: From The First Refinery To The End Of Cheap Oil, 1960-2010 (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy)

Held Captive by Gas: The Price of Politics in Gazprom's Long-Term Contracts with Central European Buyers (2009 to 2014) (Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz. Energy Policy and Climate Protection)

Energy Economics: Understanding Energy Security in China

Resource Economics: An Economic Approach to Natural Resource and Environmental Policy, Fourth Edition

Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia (International Political Economy Series)

Chinese Students in UK Further Education: Examining Aspirations, Motivations and Choices

Development and Application of Classical Capillary Number Curve Theory

Basisdaten für ökologische Bilanzierungen: Einsatz von Nutzfahrzeugen in Transport, Landwirtschaft und Bergbau

Modeling, Dynamics, Optimization and Bioeconomics III: DGS IV, Madrid, Spain, June 2016, and Bioeconomy VIII, Berkeley, USA, April 2015 – Selected ... Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, 224)

Confined Fluid Phase Behavior and CO2 Sequestration in Shale Reservoirs

Sustainable Energy Pricing: Nature, Sustainable Engineering, and the Science of Energy Pricing