Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
One “emerging consensus view”, even among politicians who continue rooting for economic growth if only to claw tax receipts for paying off swollen national debt, is that world oil demand will ceiling if not crater. Peak Oil has won converts, some of them even able to openly admit it is real, but mostly selling oil saving and oil substitution to consumers as part and parcel of the hunting down of the Evil Molecule called CO2.
The next case of $120 oil, assuming we get there before the industrial economy falls into the abyss, will be brutal for an already over-stretched American consumer. Banks are falling like dominoes on a mule cart over the bumpy terrain of declining energy supplies. When will the lights go out?
The second law of thermodynamics is the gold standard of physics, the law you can count on when all else fails. Why, then, does so much of the contemporary conversation on the future of energy ignore it? The answer is profoundly human — and profoundly troubling.
-Study ranks states’ vulnerability to oil prices
-‘Peak Oil’ Is a Waste of Energy
-Opec’s greed will herald the end of the oil age
-New World Model – EROEI issues
-Study demonstrates how we support our false beliefs
-Modern economics is one step away from measuring buttocks
-Our Unfolding Destiny: Possibilities and Probabilities
-The Big One: Teaching about Climate Change
‘Integral fast reactors’ and other ‘fourth generation’ nuclear power concepts have been gaining attention as potential contributors to climate change abatement, in part because of comments by US climate scientist James Hansen. However, nuclear power could at most make a modest contribution to climate change abatement, and all nuclear power concepts fail to address the single greatest problem with nuclear power − its repeatedly-demonstrated connection to the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
-Averting a perfect storm of shortages
-The Future of Food
-The Big Question: Should Africa be generating much of Europe’s power?
A weekly update from a UK perspective.
-A tempting proposition
-There is No Recession
-The Queen’s Postbag Becomes A Battleground For Credit Crunch + Energy Debate
-World Oil Exports; US Oil Imports; and a Few Thoughts on Canada
-The International Energy Agency Shills For OPEC, The Oil Speculators and the Peak Oil Pranksters
-Lessons learned from 2008
-Cloud ships on course to beat climate change, says Copenhagen study
-Glacier melt accelerating, federal report concludes
-India attacks British and Western ‘hypocrites’ over cutting emissions
-Key to climate bill, offsets have plenty of critics
In “reading” these words, do you say anything? More likely, you read silently—or more accurately, subvocalize. Like microexpressions, reading, like emotion, still inheres to movement of the human body. It cannot take place solely in an incorporeal “mind,” our fantasies of such aside. We can fool ourselves into that notion only because we’ve reduced the motions involved to the most fleeting versions, giving the superficial impression that they barely happen at all.
