Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes work on the US shale boom was reported in this article at Baltic Review. From the article: David Hughes, a geoscientist and former team leader on unconventional gas for the Canadian Potential Gas Committee,...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes was quoted in this article which questions the shale boom. David Hughes wrote the PCI report Drill Baby Drill: Can Unconventional Fuels Usher in a New Era of Energy Abundance. From the article: Whether...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes report Drill Baby Drill was quoted in this op-ed on the prospects for hydraulic fracturing in Michigan. From the article: The Hydraulic Fracturing in Michigan Integrated Assessment, in addition to another non-industry funded study...
Interview by Steve Andrews, ASPO-USA Q: Andrews–Production from shale oil plays has been impressive and has taken the national energy dialogue by storm. When did you sense that the shale oil plays had the kind of muscle they are...
In this landmark report, PCI Fellow David Hughes takes a far-ranging and painstakingly researched look at the prospects for various unconventional fuels to provide energy abundance for the United States in the 21st Century. While the report examines...
Global fossil fuel consumption has accelerated rapidly over the last few decades, requiring an enormous stream of resources to meet even current demand. Claims that future demand can be met simply by opening new areas to exploration and increasing...
A recent series of studies and rebuttals have debated the greenhouse gas impacts of shale gas production as compared to coal. Here, Post Carbon Institute Fellow David Hughes, author of the groundbreaking report, “Will Natural Gas Fuel America in...
In Will Natural Gas Fuel America in the 21st Century?, geoscientist David Hughes (formerly of Geological Survey of Canada) shatters the myth that U.S. natural gas can be a "bridge fuel" from high-carbon sources of energy like coal and...
The sheer scale of our dependency on nonrenewable, energy-dense “fossilized sunshine” is often lost on those who believe that renewable energy sources can supplant hydrocarbons at anything like today’s level of energy consumption. Thus it is prudent to examine...
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How do population, water, energy, food, and climate issues impact one another? What can we do to address one problem without making the others worse? The Post Carbon Reader features essays by some of the world’s most provocative thinkers...