The EBO Presentation
the free range 'energy beyond oil' project

The 2-hour 'Energy Beyond Oil' (EBO) presentation is the basic, beginner's guide to the issues of energy consumption in the UK, climate change and and peak oil. Structured as a 2-hour long visual presentation and discussion, the event outlines the scale and complexity of the issues we face, within the UK, as the human species reaches the limits of the Earth's environment.

Click here to jump to the Energy Beyond Oil 'Virtual' Presentation

The Energy Beyond Oil presentation is based on a larger number of slides than it is feasible to display within the 2-hour time limit. The slides used vary from event to event, and are selected to meet the needs of the audience. Sometimes slides from the other short presentations (Less and Food) are also included.

The 'virtual' presentation set up for viewing on the FRAW web site includes all the slides, but it's scope significantly extended by including with each section links to background information and EBO Project publications that relate to the content of each section.

You can also download The Annotated 2-hour EBO Presentation Slides (3.7 megabyte!!) PDF file containing explanatory text and web links relating to each of the slides in the 2-hour Energy Beyond Oil presentation.

For a larger format of the slide images in the presentation you can download the plain large format EBO presentation slides (1.7 megabyte!!) PDF file.

Organising an 'Energy Beyond Oil' Presentation

The Energy Beyond Oil presentation has been developed over many presentations, held in homes, community halls, schools and universities since June 2002. It's the Free Range Network's basic 'introduction' to the issues of energy, climate change and resource depletion, and ideally precedes the more detailed content of the 'Less' presentations and the longer day/weekend workshops.

If you would like to organise a presentation in your area then you'll find the details of how to set up an event in Paul Mobbs' training and events page. You can view/download a detailed outline of the Energy Beyond Oil presentation and the requirements for organising this event as either a HTML or PDF file (click on the icon above right).

Note that there's also a separate EBO/Less day workshop event. This combines the Energy Beyond Oil and Less is a Four Letter Word presentations into a single 5 to 6 hour day workshop (which allows more time for discussions of the issues raised by the presentations).

The EBO 'Virtual' Presentation

Click here to jump to the Energy Beyond Oil 'Virtual' Presentation

The slides are arranged into thematic sections. Within each section there are one or more slides. To navigate through the slides click on the image and the slide will advance to the next one. To navigate between sections click 'next' or 'previous'.

Click link to jump to a section –
Introduction.

1. An Illustration.
2. Fundamental Forces.
3. Global Solar Input.
4. Globally Traded Energy.
5. Energy Inequality.
6. Scale of Global Energy Use.
7. UK Primary Energy Supply.
8. UK Energy Flowchart.
9. The Historical Climate.
10. Global Carbon Emissions.
11. UK Carbon Emissions.
12. Renewable Energy.
13. Peak Oil/Hubbert's Peak.
14. Predicting the Global Peak.
15. Peak Oil/Peak Gas in the UK.
16. UK Energy Imports.
17. What About Coal?.
18. What About Uranium?.
19. 'Flux' and Renewable Energy.
20. The Likely Future.
21. Why Not Just Have Less?.
The Last Slide.