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- Rare Earth updates: recent research on why complex & intelligent life are rare in the Universe
- Book review of “Chip War” and the Fragility of microchips
- The tremendous material and energy toll of the digital economy
- Nuclear attack on U.S. could kill 90% of Americans
- What percent of Americans are rational?
- Book review of Lights Out. A Cyberattack. A Nation Unprepared. Surviving the Aftermath
- Off-Road vehicles & equipment need diesel fuel
- Book review of “Prime Movers of Globalization: the History & Impact of Diesel Engines & Gas Turbines”
- Mental Health. Coping with the future: notes from Jackson & Jensen’s “An Inconvenient Apocalypse”
- Tesla Semi trucks hauling corn chips
- What is the plan for an electric grid outage that lasts for months?
- Where to be? Links to Superfund, hazardous waste and other toxic sites in U.S.
- Why methanol cannot replace petroleum in shipping
- Why is everyone afraid of AI taking over? It makes stuff up!
- Do you want to eat, drink, or fly?
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Emergency drill: Cyberattack on electric grid
Preface. Although I am mainly concerned about peak oil, we’ve become so incredibly dependent on the electric grid, including electricity to pump oil at gas stations, that if the grid came down from an EMP or cyberattack, millions of people … Continue reading
Posted in Cyber, CyberAttacks
Tagged cyber attack
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Alfred McCoy in Salon Magazine on How America will collapse (by 2025)
How America will collapse by 2025. Four scenarios that could spell the end of the United States as we know it — in the very near future. Alfred McCoy. December 6, 2010. Salon.com Here are a few extracts from this … Continue reading
Posted in 3) Fast Crash, By People
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Decline and Fall of Civilizations links to articles about this
The Histomap. Four thousand years of world history. Relative power of contemporary states, nations, and empires from slate.com
Posted in 1) Decline
Tagged civilization, decline and fall
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Cyber attack methods. Who are the cyber attackers?
This just in: Cyber criminals are planting chips in electric irons and kettles to launch spam attacks. A Russian TV channel had footage of an iron being opened up to reveal a “spy chip” with a small microphone that could … Continue reading
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Cyber Attacks an unprecedented threat to U.S. National Security
Preface. This post contains extracts from 3 congressional hearings in the House of representatives session on cyber attacks. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com Author of Life After Fossil Fuels: A Reality Check on Alternative Energy; When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the … Continue reading
Posted in China and War, Cyber, CyberAttacks, U.S. Congress Infrastructure
Tagged china, cyber war, cyberattack, united states
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Book Review of Englund’s “The Beauty and the Sorrow”
Confusion, chaos, rumor, fear, hope, terror, perhaps that’s exactly what you’d expect of war, but far more real when you’re reading ordinary people’s diaries, not accounts of generals or dry facts of history. Even though I’m old enough not to … Continue reading
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Book Review of Paleofantasy: What Evolution really tells us about sex, diet, and how we live
Alice Friedemann’s review of: Marlene Zuk. 2013. Paleofantasy: What Evolution really tells us about sex, diet, and how we live. My first introduction to Evolutionary Psychology was “The Adapted Mind” which posited we’re unhappy because of the tremendous difference between … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Evolution, Health
Tagged agriculture, diet, evolution, grain, nutrition, paleofantasy
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Stephen Leeb & Charles Hall on EROI & Investing
Stephen Leeb. 5 Jun 2013. Dangerous Times As Energy Sources Get Costlier To Extract. Forbes. The optimists believe that our energy problems have been largely solved. I wouldn’t bet on that. The real issue with oil isn’t how much we … Continue reading
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Over 10 million people evicted from 4.4 million homes since 2007
The statistics on this vary. Given that the “fix” to the September 2008 crisis was merely kicking the can down the road, with no meaningful reform having taken place, and banks in even worse shape than before by “recovering” by … Continue reading
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