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Monthly Archives: July 2019
EV cars only go half as far in freezing weather
Preface. Below freezing, li-ion batteries don’t perform as well. Consumer reports found that about half the driving range was lost. Perhaps this is why nearly half of PHEV/BEV vehicles are sold in balmy California, while the half of the states … Continue reading
So you want to start a vertical farm?
Preface. Vertical farms sound even more impossible than rooftop farms, which at least can use free sunshine. And they use massive amounts of energy to heat, cool, ventilate, light, and so on, not a good direction to go given energy … Continue reading
Antibiotic Resistance
Preface. Just a few of the many articles in the media on antibiotic resistance, which like climate change, will make matters worse for whoever survives Peak Oil. And it won’t be just bacterial resistance, fungi are now growing resistant to … Continue reading
Germany’s renewable energy program, Energiewende, is a big, expensive failure
Preface. After reading this post, or better yet the original 44-page document, you’ll understand why the Green New Deal isn’t working out despite being crazy expensive. The goal of Energiewende was to make Germany independent of fossil fuels. But it … Continue reading
European Power plants are burning American forests
Preface. Incredibly, this article doesn’t address the fact that after you cut down a forest and convert the wood into pellets destined to be burned in European furnaces for “clean energy”, the next forest won’t grow back with nearly as … Continue reading
France is trying to get rid of pesticides
Preface. This article discusses how France is doing so far in their attempt to use less pesticides. This is the direction we should be going in post fossils. Many of the solutions are too high-tech to be used after the … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Pesticides
Tagged agriculture, pesticides
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Ice ages may be caused by mountains rising in the tropics
Preface. In case you’d forgotten– given all the talk about climate change — we’re still in an ice age that’s been going on for 2.6 million years. Lucky for us, we’ve been in one of the few warm periods for … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged ice age; climate change
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Let’s harness the muscle power of 54 million fitness center members to generate electricity
Preface. This is a short summary of a 10-page research paper by Carbajales-Dale. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation”, 2015, Springer, Barriers to Making Algal Biofuels, and “Crunch! Whole Grain Artisan … Continue reading
Why solar power can’t save us from peak oil
Preface. Embedded within the posts below are many reasons why solar electricity can’t replace fossil fuels. All solar and wind do is add to the giant fire of burning fossil fuels with just a tiny bit more power, about 4% … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, CSP with thermal energy storage, Solar, Solar EROI
Tagged EROI, fossil fuels, PV, solar
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