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Monthly Archives: August 2015
Vaclav Smil on natural gas (ethane) and plastics
Vaclav Smil. 2013. Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization. Wiley. Polyethylene (PE) is by far the most important thermoplastic (it accounted for 29% of the world’s aggregate plastic output, or roughly 77 Mt, in 2010), polypropylene (PP) comes next … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Gas, Vaclav Smil
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Will we go out with a whimper instead of a bang? Cyberwar more likely than nuclear war
[ A book review by Alice Friedemann of “CYBER WAR. The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It” by Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy … Continue reading
Posted in Cyber, CyberAttack Book Reviews, CyberAttacks, Cyberattacks, War
Tagged china, cyber attack, cyber war, cyberwar, infrastructure, Russia, scenario
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Pedro Prieto – what life used to be like decades ago in small Spanish villages
[I’m reading James Howard Kunstler’s excellent trilogy “A World Made By Hand” now to get an idea of what life might be like post-peak when the worst of the crisis is over. Prieto’s vivid descriptions are wonderful, I wish he’d … Continue reading
Posted in Pedro Prieto
Tagged agriculture
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Dmitry Orlov: How Russians survived the collapse of the Soviet Union
This is one of the best articles I’ve read about what collapse may be like, the best strategies to survive, and why the Russian way of life and culture prepared them far better for hard times than America. Related posts … Continue reading
Posted in Dmitry Orlov, Experts, Russia, Where to Be or Not to Be
Tagged America, collapse, orlov, Russia, survival, what to do, where to be
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When will the Alaska pipeline turn into an 800-mile-long Popsicle?
[Below are excerpts on the Alaskan pipeline from Rust: The Longest War by Jonathan Waldman. This is a great book, yet leaves so many possible rust stories uncovered, that I hope Waldman writes Rust II (or any other topic — … Continue reading
900 Tons of material to build just 1 windmill
You ought to watch “MidAmerican Energy Company – From the Ground Up: Building our energy future, one turbine at a time“. The pictures from the video below are also powerful since they capture how low the EROI of wind power … Continue reading
Posted in Wind
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Utility, large-scale battery energy storage
Hodson, H. July 25, 2015. Power to the people. NewScientist. Demand for electricity varies every second, minute, hour, day, and season. Production is easy to provide from always-ready natural gas and coal. But as we move towards a 100% renewable … Continue reading
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Dozens of Reasons Why Wind power Will Not Outlast Fossil Fuels
SCALE. Too many windmills need to be built to replace oil. Worldwide, 32,850 wind turbines with 70 to 100 meter blades generating 1.65 MW built every year for the next 50 years, or 1,642,000 total would be needed to replace … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Energy, Wind
Tagged alternative energy, CAES, EROEI, EROI, national grid, seasonal, will not work, wind power, wind turbine
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Robert McNally on energy at U.S. Congressional Hearings
[I think it is interesting to know what Congress hears about energy from experts, and what the official U.S. energy policies are. It is frustrating that Energy Return on Invested (EROI) is never discussed, even by intelligent analysts like McNally. … Continue reading
Posted in Congressional Record U.S., Other Experts
Tagged congress, energy security, house of representatives, national security, oil, Rapidan Group, Robert McNally
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Why methanol is not an option to replace gasoline or diesel
[ Below is a U.S. House hearing on alternative fuels from which I’ve extracted the methanol portions. Just a few of the reasons why this is not an option are: The California methanol effort was abandoned for many reasons, but … Continue reading
Posted in Methanol
Tagged M85, methanol, vehicle modifications
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