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Aquifer decline in California
Central valley of California (20,000 Square Miles) Cumulative groundwater depletion in the Central Valley of California, 1900 through 2008 California grows a third of America’s food, so what happens here affects everyone. California lost nearly 145 cubic kilometers of groundwater … Continue reading
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Ogallala (High Plains) aquifer depletion
Ogallala aquifer (High Plains) Cumulative groundwater depletion in the High Plains aquifer 1900-2008 Has declined as much as 164 feet in some places. 337 km3 total depletion since 1900.
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Aquifer decline in the United States
According to the USGS Groundwater Depletion in the United States 1900-2008: Groundwater depletion in the United States between 1900–2008 was 240 cubic miles (1,000 cubic km3). That’s twice as much water in Lake Erie (480 km3). For many areas the … Continue reading
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Only you can prevent wildfires: write FEMA by June 17, 2013
If you’d like to prevent another wildfire, I encourage you to write FEMA or go to the meeting tomorrow, May 18th at 10 am – see http://claremontcanyon.org/ for details on where to send a letter and meeting place. A great … Continue reading
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Why we might not go extinct
The case against extinction I think the end of fossil fuels and all that they enable us to do, microchips, and global supply chains has a 95-98% chance of saving us from extinction because: 1. Carbon dioxide and methane will … Continue reading
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Flow Rate by Kurt Cobb at Resource Insights
Sunday, April 28, 2013 http://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-only-true-metric-of-energy_28.html The only true metric of energy abundance: The rate of flow Okay, I’m going to give you the shortest course ever in energy abundance: Energy abundance depends entirely on the RATE of energy flow. Let … 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
We are not built to reason, but to rationalize. We’re easily fooled by ads, rhetoric, and actually, by just about everything it seems when you look at the lists of biases, fallacies, errors, bad memories, and propaganda below. But take … Continue reading
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