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Author Archives: energyskeptic
Exporting Natural Gas from America
We don’t have the natural gas to export as you can see in Shale Oil and Gas Will Not Save Us. Nonetheless, it looks like we may be exporting it. Matt Simmons, a financier of very large energy projects thinks … Continue reading
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Other booklists
The Biophysical Economics Policy Center booklist from 1926 to present Books John Howe Astyk, S. (2008) “Depletion and Abundance, Life On the New Home Front.” Bartlett, A. (2004) “The Essential Exponential, For the Future of Our Planet.” Bligh, J. (2004) … Continue reading
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Chinese Economy Hits the Wall
June 10, 2012 The Macroeconomics of Chinese kleptocracy by John at Bronte Capital China is a kleptocracy of a scale never seen before in human history. This post aims to explain how this wave of theft is financed, what makes … Continue reading
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California Shale Oil & Gas
US officials cut estimate of recoverable Monterey Shale oil by 96% Sahagun, L. May 21, 2014. Los Angeles Times. Federal energy authorities have slashed by 96% the estimated amount of recoverable oil buried in California’s vast Monterey Shale deposits, deflating … Continue reading
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Homer-Dixon Key findings on resources and war / violence
The Project on Environmental Scarcities, State Capacity, and Civil Violence Key Findings Abot 50 experts from 5 countries, developed a detailed set of conceptual tools for thinking about environmental scarcity and state capacity. Environmental scarcity has 3 sources: reduced resource … Continue reading
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Cash is King in a deflation — but there are dangers
Risk 1: Capital controls Restrictions on bank withdrawals (no ATM withdrawals, no bill payments, etc) Restrictions on money market fund redemptions Greater restrictions on retirement fund liquidations Fixing an official exchange rate and criminalizing market rate transactions Banning the conversion … Continue reading
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How Companies Plunder and Profit From the Nest Eggs of American Work
Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit From the Nest Eggs of American Workers By Ellen E. Schultz Portfolio/Penguin 2011 216 pages, in hardcover and paperback August 20, 2012. UE News – Summer 2012 issue We already knew that employers … Continue reading
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Why Treasury Bills are likely to be safe for at least a few years
my comment: SHORT-TERM 4-week or 13-week treasury BILLS that is Apr 19, 2012 Ilargi at the automaticearth.com Mauldin: unproductive government debt is killing us. So we either make some big, tough collective decisions, and make them soon; or we come … Continue reading
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After a nation crashes it can’t afford oil, collapse happens FAST
Why fixing energy policy is so difficult April 25, 2011 by Gail Tverberg Everyone would like to fix the US energy policy, but doing so is almost impossible, in my view, because we need to be planning for a much bigger … Continue reading
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Natural Gas used in Agriculture
Will Natural Gas Fuel America in the 21st Century? May 2011 Post Carbon Institute Agriculture and Natural Gas by Michael Bomford Michael Bomford is a research scientist and extension specialist at Kentucky State University and an adjunct faculty member in … Continue reading
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