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- How concrete damages the planet by TC Fishman
- The history of rope making
- What will future societies be like after fossil fuels are gone?
- 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
Author Archives: energyskeptic
$40 billion cost when levee system fails in California’s delta
Scientists estimate this would cost $40 billion dollars. 23 million Californians will have no drinking water. Up to 1 million acres of some of the best, most productive farmland in the world will disappear forever as salt water permeates the … Continue reading
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What Will Trigger the Financial Crash?
#1 An Energy Crisis My number one vote for when the financial system worldwide collapses is when the energy shortages begin, sometime between now and the next 5 years. Even if the depression grows worse meanwhile, that would only slow … Continue reading
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USA: 47th in life expectancy despite most money spent & thousands die from lack of health care
Preface. In the USA, vote for democrats, Republicans are openly saying they want to end SSN and Medicare. Health care and insurance will decline and vanish as collapse accelerates from financial depressions caused by energy decline, so if you’ve been … Continue reading
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Rich nations grabbing land from poor nations
[ There are so many nations grabbing land from other nations that I gave up trying to summarize this excellent book and just used a few paragraphs from NewScientist. Having to import food is a clear sign of being over … Continue reading
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Magnetic Reversal could knock out power grids and communication systems
Peter Olson and Renaud Deguen. 1 Jul 2012. Eccentricity of the geomagnetic dipole caused by lopsided inner core growth. Nature Geoscience 5, 565–569 Lopsided growth of the Earth’s core could explain why its magnetic field reverses direction every few thousand … Continue reading
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Climate Change and Infrastructure
Matthew Wald. 25 July 2012. Weather Extremes Leave Parts of U.S. Grid Buckling. New York Times. From highways in Texas to nuclear power plants in Illinois, the concrete, steel and sophisticated engineering that undergird the nation’s infrastructure are being taxed … Continue reading
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Drought and the Food Supply
Lesk, C. January 7, 2016. Influence of extreme weather disasters on global crop production. Nature. Drought and extreme heat events slashed cereal harvests in recent decades by 9% to 10% on average in affected countries with the greatest impact … Continue reading
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Natural Gas — How Much is Left in the USA?
Although there’s been a fracking boom for shale gas in America, many are skeptical. We need local gas since it’s very expensive to import from overseas sources like Qatar, and we’re competing with other nations for delivery, which drives the … Continue reading
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Liebig’s Law Of the Minimum
Liebig’s Law of the Minimum originally applied to plants, which require 21 nutrients — if any of them are missing the plant won’t grow to it’s full potential, or not be able to grow at all. It’s similar to the … Continue reading
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History of Drought in America since 1899 – Worst ever now
The dust bowls of the 1950s were worse than the famous dust bowls of the Great Depression. The conditions for a new dust bowl are happening again, only this time we’ve cut down the trees so that 27 ton tractors … Continue reading
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