U.S. Shale-Oil Production Peak: Civilization's Ultimate Energy Forecast by USAEE published on 2020-12-28T21:19:31Z This podcast, based on the working paper of the same name, explains why petroleum is the best physical type of energy. It then talks about how the search for energy proceeds, including the economics of the Hubbert curve. It looks at U.S. shale-oil potential supplies by falsifying various hypotheses. Finally, an explanation about how civilizations are defined and energetically sustained is given in order to show parallels between previous civilizations and our own