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Author Archives: energyskeptic
DOGE could have been great. Instead it blew everything up
Preface. You may remember that a movement called “Code for America” founded in 2009, used technology to improve government services and make them more efficient and accessible. This post is a book review of Pahlka’s 2023 “Recoding America” about how … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Corruption & Finance
Tagged book review, Code for America, corruption, DOGE, Recoding America
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Preface. After seeing the film “The Power of Community: How Cuba survived Peak Oil” in 2006, I thought about how those lessons might apply to California, which grows about a third of U.S. food. Much of what follows in the … Continue reading
The Nuclear Bomb is Back!
Preface. If you are not worried about nuclear war anymore, you should be. We have accidentally come close so many times.
Nuclear power is not the solution
Preface. This is a book review of Ramana’s “Nuclear is not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change.” A great overview that covers many topics, one of the best out there, and most recent. … Continue reading
Posted in Nuclear Books, Nuclear Power Energy, Nuclear War
Tagged nuclear, power, storage, war, waste, weapons
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Refrigeration uses up to 30% of world electricity
Preface. This is a book review of Twilley’s 2024 book Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves. It is a really great book, highly recommended. Refrigeration plays a much larger role in our lives than people realize. … Continue reading
Posted in Electric Grid, Energy Books
Tagged agriculture, air-conditioning, climate change, cold chain, electricity, peak food, refrigeration
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Government of Canada: Disruptions coming!
Preface. Just in case you do not have enough worries, the Government of Canada has stepped in to help you out with potential future catastrophes. And there are dozens, perhaps a new one to add to your list, such as: People … Continue reading
Posted in Disasters, GOVERNMENT
Tagged Canadian government predictions, Disasters, disruptions
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CCS plants leak, catch on fire, explode, corrode, and contaminate water
Source: Center for Progressive reform (2024) Carbon Dioxide Leak in Decatur, IL, Demonstrates Dangerous Failure of Carbon Capture Storage and Sequestration Preface. Clearly it is not worth spending billions of dollars to sequester CO2 “permanently” if it may leak. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS), Commodity Scams
Tagged carbon capture, CCS, leaks
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Peak food production happened, how will we feed 2-3 billion more?
Preface. Also see related article Limits to Growth? 2016 United Nations report provides best evidence yet. Nichols (2015) below shows that climate change is already affecting harvests of the world’s top 10 crops that comprise 83% of our calories: barley, … Continue reading
Posted in Limits To Growth, Peak Food
Tagged glyphosate, herbicide, limits to growth, peak food, weed
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Chemical industrial farming does not work: Pests evolve immunity quickly
Pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides destroy soil and ecosystems. Yet a third of crops are lost to pests just as in the many millennia of farming before chemicals Preface. This is a book review of Dyer’s “Chasing the Red Queen”, and … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture
Tagged agriculture, chemical, ecosystem, herbicide, insecticide, peak food, pesticide, soil, unsustainable
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Trump & Project 2025 want to destroy energy efficiency & raise your utility bills
Source: (NYT 2017, LBL 2025) The Department of energy (DOE) under Chris Wright is proposing to get rid of energy efficiency standards that have saved consumers over 1.5 trillion dollars (CFA 2017). The average American home saves $321 a year … Continue reading
Posted in Demand Reduction, Electric Grid & EMP Electromagnetic Pulse, Politics
Tagged art rosenfeld, electricity, energy efficiency, project 2025
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