Disruptive Technologies? Really?!
Too many experts from McKinsey and elsewhere seem to think that life is like an iPhone screen. But here is the bad news: Life does not care about iPhones, iPads, and similar.
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World car production grows 3 times faster than global oil supplies
In the last 10 years the world’s annual car production went up from 41 million to 63 million cars in 2012, or 52%… in the same period, global liquid supplies went up only 16%, an obvious mismatch.
Drilling Faster Just To Stay Still: A Proposal To Use ‘Production Per Unit Effort’ (PPUE) As An Indicator Of Peak Oil
Within the fields of harvest and fisheries management catch per unit effort (CPUE) is one method that is used to determine the health of a biological resource. The underlying assumption is that as a population declines it becomes harder to catch and therefore CPUE decreases.
The Politics of Time’s Shape
To begin with, it’s important to recognize that no fixed rule sets apart those changes that get called “progress” from the ones that don’t.
Earth Trek: The Journey Home
Lurking behind the cover story of terrorism and modern unease is an even more troubling development: the endgame of fossil-fueled civilization, and hence, the end of space travel.
Half of oil burnable in 2000-2050 to keep us within 2 degrees warming has been used up as we hit 400 ppm
We have a race between peak oil and global warming. Symptoms of these complex processes pop up every now and then.
What if there is Peak Oil?
So here is the dirty little secret of our civilization: It runs…energy per unit time…In other words, having one billion dollars in your checking account does not help you with purchasing a Rolls Royce with cash if your daily withdrawal limit is 100 dollars.
The speech Obama needed to make
I’ve stayed away from politics pointedly in posts, because voting for either party is still just voting for growth, with different labels applied. I do not believe that the current corporate giveaway that we call a political system is fixable unless we elect a leader who is ecologically and energetically literate. I doubt that will happen. That said, here is an earth day wish for real servant leadership which would fix our problems. The post is directed at a specific leader, Obama, since the United States is the worst offender in terms of extreme behavior and unsustainability.
Peak Oil Review – May 13
A weekly review including: Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East & North Africa, China, Quote of the Week, The Briefs
Peak oil – May 10
•Interview: Energy Investor Bill Powers Discusses Looming Shale Gas Bubble •Availability of oil in the long term is dubious, as oil prices could in fact retreat, helping the tanker market •Shale Oil And Gas: The Contrarian View
Principles for the Pulse that is Peak Oil
As I wrote in my post about the Pulse, “Howard Odum was of the opinion that all systems on all scales pulse. Storages gradually accumulate, consumers consume and develop, and eventually decline, and then dispersing materials that will be used in the next pulse.” And if “energy flows, storages, transformations, feedbacks, and sinks” are central to any system, man-made or otherwise, we can see that the peaking of world oil production is going to have a huge effect. So, how does the idea of pulsing change one’s approach to design?
Peak oil – Apr 30
•Peak oil isn’t dead: An interview with Chris Nelder •What If We Never Run Out of Oil? •‘Peak Fossil Fuels’ Is Closer Than You Think: BNEF
