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Author Archives: energyskeptic
Wind notes from government studies
[These are here to help me do research and find citations] Notes from 96 page: EERE. August 2014. 2013 Wind technologies market report. Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy. No commercial offshore turbines have been commissioned in the United States, but … Continue reading
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$46 Trillion Infrastructure in USA, $6 Trillion is Transportation
James Howard Kunstler has written that Suburbia will be the largest waste of money and physical assets in human history. The end of the age of oil means that just about everything will be useless too. Below is just the … Continue reading
Gail Tverberg: How this collapse differs from past collapses
Converging Energy Crises – And How our Current Situation Differs from the Past May 29, 2014 by Gail Tverberg At the Age of Limits Conference, I gave a talk called Converging Crises (PDF), talking about the crises facing us as we reach energy … Continue reading
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Tagged fast collapse, Gail Tverberg, peak oil
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Exponential growth examples
Monbiot, George. 27 May 2014. It’s simple. If we can’t change our economic system, our number’s up It’s the great taboo of our age – and the inability to discuss the pursuit of perpetual growth will prove humanity’s undoing. The … Continue reading
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Expressways & Interstates are only designed to last for 20 years
Preface. I make the case that civilization would end in a week if trucks stopped running in my first book, and though I had in mind that they would be running low on diesel fuel on the downside of world … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure & Fast Crash, Roads, Trucks
Tagged energy efficiency, infrastructure, railroad, roads, train, truck
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My Favorite James Howard Kunstler podcasts
You can subscribe to these on iTunes, or go to http://kunstler.com/writings/podcast/ I haven’t listened to all of his podcasts yet, these are the ones I’ve best liked so far (I’ve left a lot of good ones out): KunstlerCast 253 – … Continue reading
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Energy price increases and the 2008 financial crash: a practice run for what’s to come?
Hall, C.A.S., Groat, A. 2010. Losing Faith in Economics. Energy price increases and the 2008 financial crash: a practice run for what’s to come? The Corporate Examiner. 37: No. 4-5: 19-26. The summer of 2008 saw the third year in … Continue reading
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Charles Hall “Peak oil, declining EROI and the probability of degrowth”
Charles A. S. Hall . March 2010. Peak oil, declining EROI and the probability of degrowth. Second Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity March 26-29th 2010, Barcelona Peak oil is not some fuzzy academic concern but … Continue reading
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Charles A. S. Hall “The End of Faith Based Economics”
Charles Hall deserves the Nobel Prize in Economics for his book “Energy and the Wealth of Nations” and “Making World Development Work: Scientific Alternatives to Neoclassical Economic Theory” Gowdy, J., Hall, C., Klitgaard , K., and L. Krall. 2010. Losing … Continue reading
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