Talk:M. King Hubbert/Archive 1

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it's not very well know... but M. King Hubbert was one of the 'founding fathers' of the Techcratic movement, and helped set up Technocracy, Inc. as well as writting a large portion of the Study Guide.... so I added this information, plus a pretty picture from a really old newspaper, to the article. C. Nelson 01:20, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)

I've read a bit about his biography and I am a bit dismayed that details of his personal life are not included in the biography section. I remember that he was married but none of that is mentioned. He is a bit of a personal hero of mine and presumably will be even more to others in the future. Paul Bunyun big even. I understand that it should not detract from his work but a little would be nice.--66.223.168.45 (talk) 01:08, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Good job, Craig. C. Thomas Howell

- I think his relationship to technocracy deserves its own section given that it was a huge part of his personal life, beliefs and works. To have it as a sentence in his biography diminishes its significance. Do you agree? dfpacifica — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dfpacifica (talk • contribs) 17:05, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Hubbert argued that the main solution for fossil fuel depletion was nuclear energy. The report he made in '56 was called 'Nuclear Energy and the fossil Fuels' for a reason. --- Hubbert's model for peak oil is usually presented in a very incomplete fashion. Issues which should (could) be added/addressed include: the logistic curve used for modelling the peak was selected on the basis of the historical data for the anthracite coal mines of eastern Pennsylvania. The entire peak oil program includes tracking information related to the effort and expense of finding and producing new oil. This is particularly relevant in the discussion of the exploitation of unconventional oil sources, they are expensive to process. As a side note, it is likely that petroleum production will continue after the cost/energy of production exceeds its worth as fuel, uses such as raw material for plastics and other industrial chemicals will still be economic.

Another area Hubbert made an interesting contribution to is the mechanics of thrust faults - hydraulic pressure (I don't think he specified the source[s]) beneath a thrust fault could lubricate the motion and thus explain the existence of long distance transport in thin sheets which would otherwise have been expected to buckle. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.185.48.254 (talk) 23:51, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

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Contributions
The last bullet under "Contributions" reads:


 * "Demonstration that the Earth's endowment of crude oil is finite, that the rate of oil production reaches a maximum (i.e., peaks) when approximately half of the original resource remains, and thereafter goes into irreversible decline."

This is questionable in three respects. First, the realization of the "finite" nature of crude oil supply predated Hubbert by many years. Second, the peak at 1/2 of ultimate cumulative was something he theorized rather than "demonstrated." Third, the "irreversible decline" is currently being proved inaccurate even for his famous test case of oil in the contiguous 48 states. He quite correctly and presciently predicted the approximate oil and gas peaks in the US, which was a startling accomplishment. But the post-peak behaviors of both oil and gas in the US have deviated significantly from Hubbert's assumed symmetry; indeed, gas is up to a new peak, and still rising. What Hubbert did accomplish was to be first to put oil discoveries, reserves, and production into a rigorous and consistent mathematical model, which was a major step forward. Cheers. Plazak (talk) 21:36, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
 * No one commented, so I changed the bullet point to be more accurate.  Plazak (talk) 02:51, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

The first bullit in list of contributions ("Correct statement of Darcy's Law") is incorrect, and the source is incorrect, as far as I know. Please read the article on Morris Muskat. Muskat published the equation for multiphase flow in porous in 1936.

Best regards Frode54 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frode54 (talk • contribs) 18:38, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

Name
Does anyone know what Hubbert was called by friends and family? "King"? Eric Kvaalen (talk) 16:09, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

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