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Author Archives: energyskeptic
Water-borne diseases will increase as energy declines
Preface. Drinking water and sewage treatment plants are the main reason lifespans nearly doubled. Read Laurie Garrett’s “Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health” for details. As energy declines, the ability of towns and cities to treat water … Continue reading
Posted in Sewage treatment, Water Infrastructure, Where to Be or Not to Be
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Bankers and Wall Street take cheating to new levels
[ What follows is an excerpt of an interview between behavioral economist Dan Ariely (DA) and Graham Lawton (GL) in New Scientist 16 June 2012 “The Cheating Game“. This is yet another reason another worse crash is inevitable (in addition … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption & Finance
Tagged bank, cheating, corruption, dishonesty, wall street
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Is large-scale energy storage dead?
April 8, 2016 by Roger Andrews at euanmearns.com Many countries have committed to filling large percentages of their future electricity demand with intermittent renewable energy, and to do so they will need long-term energy storage in the terawatt-hours range. But … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Storage, Other Experts
Tagged energy storage
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Humans driving species to extinction 1,000 times the natural rate
[ According to a paper published in Science the current rates of extinction are 1000 times the background rate. This estimate is higher than previous estimates is due to a more sophisticated analysis. Other extinction news: 2017-1-18 World’s primates facing … Continue reading
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Tagged biodiversity, extinction, loss
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Tokyo earthquake will cost somewhere from $1 to $4 trillion and likely soon
If a disaster is capable of crashing the world financial system, an earthquake in Tokyo is surely one of them. Tokyo, with over 33 million people, is the epicenter of finance and politics in Japan. In geologist Peter Hadfield’s 1995 … Continue reading
Posted in Disasters, Earthquakes
Tagged earthquake, tokyo
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Cascadia subduction zone 9.0 earthquake will cost hundreds of billions of dollars and many lives
[ Would a several hundred billion dollar earthquake shake the global financial system enough to bring on a world-wide depression? It’s not just the costs of repair, but the indirect costs, such as destruction of the Ports of Seattle and … Continue reading
Vines are taking over forests
Laurance, W. October 5, 2013. Planet of the vines: Climbing plants are taking over. NewScientist. Giant vines are beginning to strangle Earth’s tropical forests, and it’s not just due to climate change. Gaze out over a tropical rainforest and the … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, BioInvasion, Climate Change
Tagged biodiversity, carbon dioxide, climate change, forests, vines
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Large animals driven extinct by human hunters still affect ecosystems today
Below is an excerpt/paraphrased of Michael Marshall’s 14 August 2013 NewScientist Ecosystems still feel the pain of ancient extinctions, the abstract of the original Nature Geoscience article, and future losses of large animals will affect tropical forests in the future. … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Soil
Tagged biodiversity, phosphorous, soil
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National security implications of international energy and climate change policies, Senate hearing
[This is an excerpt of a very interesting senate hearing that looks at how war can be caused by climate change (i.e. drought, hunger, rising sea levels) and how climate change will affect infrastructure. The European emissions trading scheme and … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Congressional Record U.S., Energy Infrastructure, Middle East
Tagged carbon tax, climate change, energy independence, energy security, energy subsidy, fraud, natural gas, oil
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