Product Description

Profit from the Peak contains the information you need to successfully navigate the end of our oil–based economy. It takes a hard look at the future of oil and gas, examines how you can effectively invest in these resources, and profit from energy alternatives that are poised to power the years ahead. Along the way, this book also explores the potential, and possible limitations, of each major energy source, while carefully cover the investing angles of each one.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #364666 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 286 pages

Review
"...enlivened by an optimistic, practical approach" (Spectator Business, October, 2008)

Review
“I would certainly recommend Profit from the Peak to anyone who wants to better understand our current energy reality”. MarketOracle.co.uk Saturday 16 August

From the Inside Flap

There is no doubt that oil production will peak, if it hasn′t already, and that all other fossil fuels will peak soon after. The important questions for investors are: when will it happen, to what extent, and what can I do to capitalize on it?

According to authors Brian Hicks and Chris Nelder, we′re quickly facing the end of our oil–based economy. Half of the world′s known oil reserves are gone, and with roughly a trillion barrels remaining—and consumption up to eighty–six million barrels a day—the world has about thirty years of oil left. And that′s a best–case scenario.

But every crisis contains the blueprint for its own solution. As entrepreneurs, inventors, the scientific community, and even Big Oil race to find the next abundant energy source, the largest potential crisis of the twenty–first century has also become the greatest investment opportunity of this century. In fact, the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that at least $20 trillion will have to be invested over the next twenty–five years to meet surging energy demand.

Divided into three comprehensive parts—The Crisis in a Barrel, Making Money from the Fossil Fuels That Are Left, and Energy after Oil—Profit from the Peak contains the information you need to successfully navigate this epic event. Hicks and energy expert Chris Nelder take a hard look at the future of oil and gas, discuss how you can effectively invest in these resources, and detail the potential profitability of energy alternatives that are poised to power the years ahead. Along the way, they also explore the potential, as well as the inherent limitations, of each major energy source and carefully cover the investing angles of each one.

Filled with in–depth insights and practical advice, Profit from the Peak will help you understand this ever–changing marketplace so that you can excel in it. Issues addressed include:

• What is Peak Oil?

• Which companies are best positioned to take advantage of this event?

• What does the future hold for all fossil fuels?

• What investment opportunities are available in the solar, nuclear, geothermal, and biofuel sectors?

• How can we adjust our infrastructure to accommodate various alternative energy options?

• And much more

But Profit from the Peak is more than just a guide to capitalizing on a potential energy crisis. By asking how this situation could affect you as both an investor and an individual, it offers a sobering assessment of where we are and what it will take to find a way forward amid the coming changes.

Customer Reviews

a poor book...
A trite book. It starts off with a long-winded introduction on peak oil, too basic for most people who would consider buying this read in the first place. And rather than being the main subject of the book, alternative energy investment is relegated to succint end-of-chapter notes on possible (mostly US) stock picks.

Also, the authors' continual jingoistic references to the US and sentimental appeals to American enterpreneurship and ingenuity make this an irritating read at times, and so does the occasional anti-Chinese bias. Rather than for an international audience with an interest in the matter, it looks like Hicks and Nelder wrote their treatise principally to paint alternatives to Oil as a patriotic choice for an audience of Texas rednecks.

There are some fairly good bits but all in all, it isn't a read that I can recommend.

Good Introduction
I thought that this book provided a good overview of peak oil and energy alternatives. However, the investment recommendations were "light" and there was no many companies I hadn't heard of which was very disappointing.