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Category Archives: Ugo Bardi
Why rare and valuable metals are not recycled
Preface. This is a post about why rare and critical metals aren’t recycled at all or at best, just a small percent. Basically it is still cheaper to mine them from scratch than to try to separate them out from … Continue reading →
Ugo Bardi’s The Universal Mining Machine
Preface. Below I’ve excerpted some of Ugo Bardi’s “The Universal Mining Machine” (24 January 2008 europe.theoildrum), but I’ve left a great deal out of this excellent article, I encourage you to read all of it if you have time. The … Continue reading →
Posted in Elements: Critical, Mining, Ugo Bardi
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Tagged elements, energy, minerals, mining
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Ugo Bardi: Collapse. Where can we find a safe refuge?
Preface. This is from the excellent blog Cassandralegacy.blogspot.com of Ugo Bardi’s posted here. I agree that a small town or city might be best, but only if near agriculture, most towns in the desert SouthWest of the U.S. are not … Continue reading →
Ugo Bardi: “Energy Dominance,” what does it mean? Decoding a Fashionable Slogan
Preface. A very good article about energy and war, explains a lot about how the world really works. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation”, 2015, Springer and “Crunch! Whole Grain Artisan … Continue reading →
Mining: Waste, Pollution, Destruction from Ugo Bardi’s “Extracted”
Preface. I’ve reworded/shortened some of the wording at times from this excellent book. Here are 7 other posts from this great book: Mining: Waste, Pollution, Destruction Ugo Bardi predictions of the future Minerals and War Minerals: Natural gas Minerals: Coal … Continue reading →
Ugo Bardi predictions of the future from “Extracted”
Preface. This is just a small sampling of what Bardi thinks might happen post fossil fuels, mostly shortened and reworded. Here are 7 other posts from this great book: Mining: Waste, Pollution, Destruction Ugo Bardi predictions of the future Minerals … Continue reading →
Minerals & Energy from Ugo Bardi’s “Extracted”
Preface. This is a small section of Ugo Bardi’s excellent book “Extracted”. His most important observation is that: “The limits to mineral extraction are not limits of quantity; they are limits of energy. Extracting minerals takes energy, and the more … Continue reading →
Minerals and War from Ugo Bardi’s “Extracted”
Preface. This is an extract from Ugo Bardi’s book “Extracted”. He makes the case that once we were able to forge metal weapons was when predatory nations began to invade one another to gain resources like coal to make more … Continue reading →
Minerals: Coal from Ugo Bardi’s “Extracted”
Preface. This is just a small sampling of what Bardi thinks might happen post fossil fuels, mostly shortened and reworded. Here are 7 other posts from this great book: Mining: Waste, Pollution, Destruction Ugo Bardi predictions of the future Minerals … Continue reading →
Mineral: Soil from Ugo Bardi’s “Extracted”
Preface. Ugo Bardi’s book on minerals covers a wide-ranging territory, including soil, which is a mineral. In this section of the book he shows how humans have damaged the soil so much we have greatly overshot carrying capacity by lowering … Continue reading →
Posted in Agriculture, Peak Food, Soil, Ugo Bardi
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Tagged agriculture, depletion, erosion, food, mineral, soil
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