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In this book, he explores the earths supply of potential replacement fuels. King hubbert, the creator of the hubbert peak theory, at the shell oil company research laboratory in houston, texas. In two earlier books, hubberts peak 2001 and beyond oil 2005, the geologist kenneth s. The impending world oil, was published in 2001 by princeton university press. Deffeyes laid out his rationale for concluding that world oil production would continue to follow a bellshaped curve, with the smoothedout peak somewhere in the middle of the first decade of this millenniumin keeping with the projections of his.
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