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Category Archives: Ugo Bardi
Mining: Waste, Pollution, Destruction from Ugo Bardi’s “Extracted”
[ I’ve reworded/shortened some of the wording at times from this excellent book. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation”, 2015, Springer and “Crunch! Whole Grain Artisan Chips and Crackers”. Podcasts: KunstlerCast … Continue reading →
Ugo Bardi predictions of the future from “Extracted”
[ This is just a small sampling of what Bardi thinks might happen post fossil fuels, mostly shortened and reworded. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation”, 2015, Springer and “Crunch! Whole … Continue reading →
Minerals & Energy from Ugo Bardi’s “Extraction”
Bardi, Ugo. 2014. Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet. Chelsea Green Publishing. The limits to mineral extraction are not limits of quantity; they are limits of energy. Extracting minerals takes energy, and the more dispersed … Continue reading →
Minerals and War from Ugo Bardi’s “Extracted”
Bardi, Ugo. 2014. Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet. Chelsea Green Publishing. “Clearly there wasn’t much of an incentive to move an army or a caravan across the mountains and deserts that separated Egypt from … Continue reading →
Ugo Bardi: Turn CO2 into ethanol
Ugo Bardi. October 22, 2016. The mother of all promises and how science failed to maintain it. Cassandra’s Legacy. The latest scientific claim that went viral on the web is about a catalyst able to turn CO2 directly into ethanol. … Continue reading →
Minerals: Coal from Ugo Bardi’s “Extracted”
Bardi, Ugo. 2014. Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet. Chelsea Green Publishing. True large-scale coal mining started only during the 18th century in Europe, and in particular in England and France. Initially coal was considered … Continue reading →
Mineral: Soil from Ugo Bardi’s “Extracted”
[ 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 →
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Ugo Bardi on money, gold, and silver
What follows is from a really great book: Bardi, Ugo. 2014. Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet. Chelsea Green Publishing. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation”, … Continue reading →
After a collapse will people grow their own food or plunder others?
[ In this post Ugo Bardi looks at what will happen if society collapses and we have to suddenly go back to pre-industrial agriculture conditions. A back to the land movement where people grow their own food may not happen. … Continue reading →
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Ugo Bardi: The Hill’s Group report
[ The Hill’s group consists of energy insiders, and I must admit I was impressed by the predictions they said their model had already gotten right, such as the drop in oil price when everyone was expecting the price to … Continue reading →
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