| Kenneth Deffeyes | |
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| Nationality | United States |
| Occupation | Geologist, Author, Educator |
| Title | Professor Emeritus |
Kenneth S. Deffeyes is a geologist who worked with M. King Hubbert of Hubbert's peak fame, at the Shell Oil Company research laboratory in Houston, Texas. Deffeyes holds a B.S. in petroleum geology from the Colorado School of Mines and a Ph.D. in geology from Princeton University under F.B. van Houten. In 1967 he began teaching at Princeton, where he is now professor emeritus. He claims Chickasaw ancestry.
In John McPhee's 1981 book Basin and Range (about the origin of Basin and Range topography), Prof. Deffeyes helps explain geological science to McPhee through explaining road cuts associated with Interstate highway I-80.
He is the author of the book Hubbert's Peak (2001). In 2005 he published the book Beyond Oil: The view from Hubbert's peak. On February 11, 2006 Deffeyes claimed that world oil production peaked on December 16 2005.
Quotes
- "Crude oil is much too valuable to be burned as a fuel."
- "The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground."
See also
External links
- Deffeyes' peak oil site at Princeton
- Deffeyes' autobiographical sketch
- American Journal of Physics review of Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage
- GRIST review of Beyond Oil - The view from Hubbert's peak
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