[ExI] Whatever happened to peak oil by 2020?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 07:48:40AM -0700, Adrian Tymes wrote:
> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> 
> > One does not simply synthesize gasoline</boromir> Particularly,
> > if you want to fill a large gap almost overnight.
> >
> > Look into costs and time and material and energy input
> > for a plant, then multiply by the number required.
> >
> 
> Would you happen to have a convenient source for said costs
> and time?  A quick search didn't find any, but I may have used
> the wrong terms.

It can be tricky to find. Here's an article with a few
numbers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/business/energy-environment/sasol-betting-big-on-gas-to-liquid-plant-in-us.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0