NY Press, June 2, 2004
THE COMING ENERGY CRUNCH
A $2 gallon of gas is just the beginning.
By Aaron Naparstek
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IN 1956, a Shell Oil geologist named M. King Hubbert stood up before a
meeting of the American Petroleum Institute and, much to the chagrin of
his bosses, predicted that oil
It may be helpful to non-statisticians to point out that the bell curve is
not a theory, a fact or a physical law. It is an observed regularity that
occurs often when looking at large numbers of cases. It has to do with the
randomness of the distribution of the cases. Not all phenomena group
On Jun 2, 2004, at 12:00 PM, Tom Walker wrote:
It may be helpful to non-statisticians to point out that the bell
curve is
not a theory, a fact or a physical law. It is an observed regularity
that
occurs often when looking at large numbers of cases. It has to do with
the
randomness of the
I think Tom Walker's comments on Hubbard were excellent.
I recently heard an interview with David Goodstein, vice provost of
Caltech regarding his book, Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil. He
claims that the Hubbard curve has been proven reasonably accurate for
any number of minerals, in
