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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Flow Rate by Kurt Cobb at Resource Insights
[I’ve combined & rearranged sections from the articles below] April 28, 2013 The only true metric of energy abundance: The rate of flow September 02, 2012 Why the oil industry doesn’t want you to remember the last 14 years Energy … Continue reading
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Oil can never be replaced with alternative energy
People who think that wind, solar, biofuels, hydrogen, batteries, and so on will save us simply don’t understand how much energy is contained in oil and other fossil fuels, how much we rely on it, how it is at the … Continue reading
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Natural Gas and Trucking
What we are facing is a liquids fuels crisis, since 97% of transportation depends on oil (especially to plant, harvest, and distribute food, long-haul trucking, trains, etc). To the extent that natural gas can fill in for oil, that will … Continue reading
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Peak Oil Acknowledged by Middle Eastern countries — they’re scared
Very interesting reflections on a peak oil conference in the Middle east of the countries that export oil. I think it must mean we’re past peak, don’t believe “the near future”. Peak Oil as seen through the eyes of Arab … Continue reading
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Over 250 Cognitive biases, fallacies, errors, and more
What makes us susceptible to nonsense? A scientific paper on Bullsh*t was recently published: “On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit”, which attempts to identify what makes people susceptible to nonsense. The authors defined BS as a statement that … Continue reading
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The Big 5 Personality Traits – psychobabble or science?
Alice Friedemann’s review of : Daniel Nettle. 2008. “Personality, What makes you the way you are”. Oxford University Press. Scientists have considered psychology to be a very soft science at best and quackery or psychobabble at worst. But psychology is … Continue reading
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Renewable Energy can’t supply more than 30% of electricity without revolutionary battery breakthrough
Wind and solar are too intermittent to comprise much of electric grid power now, according to Steven Chu, former US energy secretary. In 2010, Chu said, “Without technological breakthroughs in efficient, large-scale energy storage, it will be difficult to rely … Continue reading
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