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- Phosphate: All hopes for food and LFP batteries rest on Morocco with up to 85% of remaining reserves
- Floating Solar Farms add plastic, metal, PFAS & cut off light and oxygen to life below
- Peak Lithium
- Trump eliminates birth control abroad
- In a world without people, how long would NYC last?
- Network States to replace democratic governments with billionaire Silicon Valley CEO dictators & Republicans
- Why the kerogen in oil shale will never fill up your tank
- ‘The oil we eat’. Following the food chain back to iraq
- Vanishing open spaces: population growth and sprawl in America
- Admiral Rickover 1957: Energy Resources & Our Future
- The Green New Deal is not a solution for the real problem: Overshoot
- A transition from fossil fuels to renewables could take a century – if it ever happens
- Electrifying freight trains in the U.S. is a bad idea
- Why Nuclear Power can’t replace fossil fuels
Author Archives: energyskeptic
What will future societies be like after fossil fuels are gone?
Preface. I was writing about how deadly and brutal wars are today, nuclear bombs, and all the mafia totalitarian and gangster states like Russia and Mexico, Ecuador, various African states that make the lives of their people miserable and getting … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Vaclav Smil, War
Tagged agriculture, civlization, energy, food, smil, war
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Phosphate: All hopes for food and LFP batteries rest on Morocco with up to 85% of remaining reserves
Phosphate is absolutely essential for both plants and animals. It’s estimated that Morocco has of 75-85% of phosphate reserves. How long reserves will last depends on being economic. So if the price of oil rises too high or is scarce, … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture
Tagged agriculture, food, peak, peak phosphate, peak phosphorus, phosphorus, reserves
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Floating Solar Farms add plastic, metal, PFAS & cut off light and oxygen to life below
Preface. These exist mainly in Asia. Yet another mess left for future generations after the fossil party ends, meanwhile, in some cases, harming the ecosystem and reducing phytoplankton and fish while increasing toxic cyanobacteria blooms and invasive bio-fouling mussels. Few … Continue reading
Posted in Photovoltaic Solar
Tagged Floating Photovoltaic Farms, Floating solar, pollution
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In a world without people, how long would NYC last?
Preface. The best book I have read on this topic of how fast the world would recover is Alan Weisman’s “World Without Us.” But this article from Popular Science is a god summary of what to expect. And since NYC … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure & Collapse
Tagged cities, collapse, infrastructure
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Network States to replace democratic governments with billionaire Silicon Valley CEO dictators & Republicans
Introduction This is a book review of part of Gil Duran’s “Network States and the Rise of Cryptocurrency to end democratic governments.” Which is mainly about Peter Thiel, who has had the greatest effect, more even than Elon Musk, in … Continue reading
Posted in Political Books, Where are the rich going
Tagged Balaji Srinivasan, bunker, Elon Musk, Network state, Peter Thiel
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Why the kerogen in oil shale will never fill up your tank
Source: Oil Shale vs. Shale Oil: What’s the difference? USGS Preface. The basic reason oil shale was never developed was because it was not cooked enough. It has tens of millions of years to go. Turning it into oil right … Continue reading
‘The oil we eat’. Following the food chain back to iraq
Source: The Oil We Eat – How Our Food System Depends On Oil and How Fragile It Makes Our Food Security Preface. Even though this article was published in 2004, it is still true today, only worse. This article will … Continue reading
Posted in Overpopulation, Peak Food, Peak Topsoil
Tagged overpopulation, peak food, peak soil
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Vanishing open spaces: population growth and sprawl in America
Preface. Before the fossil fuel age began, up to 90% were farmers. The end of the brief blip of oil production will send us back to that time (if we aren’t so far into overshoot we go back to … Continue reading
Posted in Overpopulation, Peak Food, Soil
Tagged agriculture, peak food, population, sprawl
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