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Category Archives: Ugo Bardi
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 →
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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Peak Uranium by Ugo Bardi from Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet
Preface. This is an extract of Ugo Bardi’s must read “Extracted” about the limits of production of uranium. You can find plenty of material saying there is are a lot of uranium reserves and resources left elsewhere (EMD 2019). The … Continue reading →
Abiotic oil theory and its implications for peak oil
Preface. This post consists of excerpts from the best paper I’ve found on why abiotic oil is nonsense, see the full paper here. Abiotic proponents believe that the earth is always producing fossil fuels so we don’t need to worry … Continue reading →
Ugo Bardi: Quite likely we’ll have a fast collapse, a “Seneca Cliff”
Excerpts from: Ugo Bardi. August 28, 2011. The Seneca effect: why decline is faster than growth. Ugo Bardi. July 15, 2013.The punctuated collapse of the Roman Empire. Could it be that the Seneca cliff is what we are facing, right … Continue reading →
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