The Impending World Energy Mess

The Impending World Energy Mess Review

This is a real eye opener of a book. I had not read Hirsch's 2005 report
until I heard about this book and then I went and read both. What is
really interesting in this book is the fact that Hirsch and his team
seem to have approached things differently. Instead of assuming a sharp
peak in oil production, as they did in the 2005 report, they have now
built their analysis around what has happened in the last five years,
and then extrapolated on from there what they think is coming next.
There are many other differences in both approach and analysis from the
first report and I found the new book to be both enlightening and useful.

The stylistic approach is also different between the earlier report and
this book, but this has clearly been written for a general audience and
not for just the oil sector. I found it an easy read and found no
evidence at all of it being poorly written (as asserted by the previous
reviewer.) I also have to wonder if everyone actually goes digging
around on obscure websites to find out about this subject. Clearly if
you are in the oil business you might do that, but the general reader
probably has better things to do and might appreciate an overview such
as presented in this book. I did.

I also found the layout to be both easy and visually simple and
generally cohesive and coherent.

I was not at all disappointed with this purchase and found it to be the
most up to date and simple read on the subject. The content of course is
unnerving and you are left wondering whether any of the politicians will
actually read this book and start to do something about the inevitable.
Before it is too late. (If it isn't already!)

The Impending World Energy Mess Overview

The Impending World Energy Mess will help educate readers about the realities of energy in general and oil in particular.

The reader will be able to cut through the smokescreens that various self interests have, and are, promulgating and understand that there are a number of credible studies that clearly demonstrate that world oil production is close to going into decline, which will create long-term world oil shortages.

The huge economic impacts associated with impending oil shortages are brought into sober, balanced perspective and readers are given tools to minimize the impending negative impacts on their personal lives.

Finally, The Impending World Energy Mess provides a balanced discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of a number of electric power production technologies, and in particular, the inherent weaknesses in solar and renewable technologies. The Impending World Energy Mess provides a practical basis for understanding and personal action.

Included in this book is a special Foreword from Dr James Schlesinger - First US Secretary of Energy, Director of Central Intelligence, Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.

In the next five years, world oil production will begin to decline - which means less and less oil will be available each year. The result will be annually deepening worldwide economic damage.

There will be no quick fixes. Even crash program mitigation will take more than a decade to impact.

Societal priorities will change dramatically. Compromises will be required. Years of energy hopes and fantasy will have to yield to pragmatism.

Oil and energy issues are complicated. You need to understand the situation in order to make intelligent choices for yourself and those close to you.

To be forewarned is to be forearmed. With over a hundred years of combined experience in energy and economics, the authors provide you the straight story, including realities that others have been reluctant to discuss.

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