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The Building That Learns To Fish: Architecture, Peak Oil, And The Need For Adaptability, Justin M. Pelland
The Building That Learns To Fish: Architecture, Peak Oil, And The Need For Adaptability, Justin M. Pelland
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Oil is a finite resource; This much has been established as fact and is commonly agreed upon. We will, some day, find our supplies depleted. The question that remains hotly debated, however, is when this will happen and what impacts it will have on our modern lives. Estimates and forecasts abound, but still no one can answer these questions definitively. As fossil fuels, the energy behind virtually every aspect of our lives, become scarce, our patterns of growth will face a reckoning. We will be forced to adapt and adjust; either shifting our energy demand to more renewable sources, or …