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Monthly Archives: November 2014
Life before Cars: When Pedestrians Ruled the Streets
When Pedestrians Ruled the Streets December 2014, By Clive Thompson. Smithsonian Magazine. When you visit any city in America today, it’s a sea of cars, with pedestrians dodging between the speeding autos. It’s almost hard to imagine now, but in … Continue reading
Posted in Automobiles, Transportation
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Why fusion power is still 30 years away — if ever
Fusion is not likely to work out, yet it is the only possible energy source that could replace fossil fuels (see Science : No single or combination of alternative energy resources can replace fossil fuels). Ugo Bardi (2014), in his … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Energy, Fusion
Tagged electricity, fusion, power
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Natural Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) as a Drop-in Diesel fuel
[The reason GTL is a big deal is that it can substitute for diesel without having to modify a diesel engine to do so — therefore, it’s a “drop-in fuel” substitute. However, GTL isn’t likely to be the answer, since … Continue reading
Posted in GTL Gas-To-Liquids
Tagged diesel, drop-in fuel, Fischer-Tropsch, GTL, natural gas, transportation
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Biogas
Hayes, Denis and Gail. 2015. Cowed: The Hidden Impact of 93 Million Cows on America’s Health, Economy, Politics, Culture, and Environment. W.W. Norton & Company. Digesters are more about controlling pollution than generating electricity. If every ounce of manure from … Continue reading
Population posts on the internet
[Below are posts I’ve run across on population. It will be left to Mother Nature to cut our numbers back to what the earth can support after fossil fuels decline. In the brief 100 years or so the oil-boom lasted, … Continue reading
Posted in Population, Scientists Warnings to Humanity
Tagged consumption, overpopulation, Paul Erlich
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Giant Oil Field Decline Rates
Summary of article 1, Cobb’s “Aging Giant Oil Fields” 2013 The world’s 507 giant oil fields comprise a little over 1% of all oil fields, but produce 60% of current world supply Of the 331 largest fields, 261, or 79%, … Continue reading
Posted in Flow Rate, How Much Left
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Gail Tverberg: 8 pitfalls in evaluating green energy solutions
Eight Pitfalls in Evaluating Green Energy Solutions November 18, 2014 by Gail Tverberg Does the recent climate accord between US and China mean that many countries will now forge ahead with renewables and other green solutions? I think that there are … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Gail Tverberg
Tagged alternative energy, blackouts, deforestation, electric grid, extinction, rare minerals, recycling, renewables, topsoil, water depletion
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Why You Should Love Trains
Why You Should Love Trains by Alice Friedemann November 13, 2014 Trains rock! Trains are over 4 times more fuel efficient than trucks. On average it takes just 1 gallon to move a ton 473 miles, using just 2% of … Continue reading
Posted in Railroads, Railroads, Transportation
Tagged efficiency, energy, infrastructure, railroad, transportation
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book list: energy, ecology, evolution, extinction, war, natural resources, carrying capacity, infrastructure, agriculture, politics and more
My long reading list (below) is very long and out-of-date, so I’ve broken it up into reading lists by topic (in progress still). I encourage you to buy the books and print off the articles on acid-free paper (see Preservation … Continue reading
