At the peak of production, he knew whenever he heard the sound of the "bull", the plant's loudspeaker, that his shop would be overrun within minutes by workers.
Several others have made still more bullish claims about the impending peak of global coal production.
The notion of a sharp global peak in production does not withstand scrutiny, either.
The discovery of shale oil means global oil production will not peak in the next 20 years, Mr Birol added.
Also up there is the fallout from a global economic collapse, possibly resulting from a state of peak oil -- the point where oil production reaches its peak and thereafter goes into freefall.
There are two main incentives for this, the first being the geological feature that natural gas is in finite supply and world production of it is thought might peak within the next few decades, and secondly that burning fossil carbon contributes to the atmospheric concentration of CO2, which scientific consensus accords will cause global warming and climate change.
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Although overall production has fallen slightly since the peak of the cold war, the number of companies involved has grown.
At the peak in 1970, half of the country's industrial production took place in Mexico City alone.
In the report, we produce data that suggests a peak of global oil production at less than 95 million barrels a day, up from some 85 million now, and we summarize fears that could result in a peak of less than 92 million, plus a steep fall beyond the peak, all at a time when demand is rising well in excess of 100 million barrels a day.
By 1936, industrial production surpassed its 1929 peak, an indication that the backbone of the economy trumped the stock market.
We believe that production at the newly acquired Bloom Lake mine should reach its peak annual capacity of 8 million tons in 2012.
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An ultimate peak in oil production is an inevitable consequence of a finite resource, and the gap will be sharply enlarged when it transpires.
The point here is that there are actually a number of different crude oil markets and peak production in one does not mean peak production in another.
There is no doubt that, since the peak of manufacturing in the US, the manufacturing industries have gone from 14.536 million production and non-salaried positions in 1979 to 8.262 at the end of last year.
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He examined the rise and fall of individual oilfield production and projected those patterns for the entire U.S. He then predicted a peak in output in 1970.
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