Quote from: RE on Jan 13, 2026, 07:43 PMSteve had a lot more than Triangle of Doom.  You missed quite a bit of good stuff.

Maybe. But I had scientists within the government, academic PhDs of various stripes from a couple of countries, ex-industry experts writing books, and legions of enthusiastic amateurs....including "lawyers"...all arriving with the internet, building sites trumpeting the end and spouting off the most entertaining interpretations of....stuff.

Quote from: REFar as changing ideas, when I began I wasn't interested in Peak Oil and energy at all.  Just curiouss about the reasons behind the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros.  I ran across a paper by Antal Fekete that led toexploring the debt which led to energy costs which led to resource depletion.  I spent more time on economics blogs than Peak Oil at the beginning, but PO was livelier back then.

It certainly was. I got involved on the economics side, but it took half a decade or so or untangling the techinal malfesance first.

Quote from: REAs you collect more data and do more research, over 20 years your thinking has to evolve,otherwise you haven't learned anything.

But of course. So after learning everything everyone else thought about peak oil, it became time to solve it. Once that was done...well....after that it was just waiting around to see the ending to an interesting fad.

It isn't lively much now.

Quote from: REAnyhow, I'm not going to die too soon, I just don't get why I deserve so much attention.  Why waste the time?  I have no credibility.  Seems silly.

RE

The number of data points certainly matters, but the temporal component can't be ignored, in terms of how, after decades, and with hindsight, their previous positions have evolved.

And as most have ghosted their audience and websites and whatnot (or been abandoned by their audience?), the data points are far fewer with increasinng longevity.