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- Why Nuclear Power can’t replace fossil fuels
- Energy, Water, & Climate Change are interdependent
- Why fusion power is Forever Away
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- Excerpt from “The Geopolitics of Resource Wars”
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- Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future
- Motherboards: too complicated to make after oil
- “More and More and More” one of the best books on energy ever written
- The staggering destruction of knowledge by Christians in the Roman Empire
- The staggering cost of Net Zero in Britain
- Why the R/P Reserves to Production ratio does not show when oil will run out
- Catton on Collapse “Bottleneck: Humanity’s Impending Impasse”
Category Archives: A Fast Crash
Why liquefied coal (CTL) and natural gas (GTL) can’t replace oil
Preface. Here are just a few of the reasons why we aren’t likely to convert enough coal to diesel to matter as oil decines (see Chapter 11 Liquefied Coal: There Goes the Neighborhood, the Water, and the Air for more … Continue reading
Posted in Coal to Liquids (CTL), GTL Gas-To-Liquids, Peak Coal, Peak Oil
Tagged coal-to-liquids, CTL, flow rate, gas-to-liquids, GTL, peak coal, peak oil
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The Good News About Peak Oil
As oil declines, the threat of a greenhouse earth & extinction from climate change decline Carbon sequestration, wind, solar, geo-engineering, and other remedies are trivial compared to the effect declining fossil fuels will have on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The … Continue reading
Posted in Peak Natural Gas, Peak Oil, Pesticides, Planetary Boundaries, What to do
Tagged climate change, fertilizer, natural gas, peak oil, pesticide, rationing
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Rees on Overshoot: Growth through contraction: conceiving an eco-economy
Preface. William Rees writes some of the best and most comprehensible papers of all on the overshoot crisis we are in. We should have begun a U-turn in the 60s after The Population Bomb, or the 70s when Limits to … Continue reading
Posted in Limits To Growth, Overshoot, William Rees
Tagged contraction, ecological footprint, limits to growth, localization, overshoot, steady-state economy
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Lithium-ion battery recycling, environmental impact, energy used
Preface. The future of both electric vehicles and utility-scale energy storage are depending on lithium-ion batteries because of their high energy-density, and even though lithium is limited, it’s about the only kind of battery being made for transport (because it … Continue reading
Posted in Lithium-ion, Recycle, Recycling
Tagged battery, energy, environmental impact, LCA, recycle, toxicity
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USGS Groundwater Depletion study of aquifer decline in the U.S.
Preface. I summarize two major research papers on the state of the Ogallal below. It and many other aquifers are depleting rapidly, and polluted from pesticides, feedlot waste, intruding salts, and other pollution. Rainfall isn’t replenishing the Ogallala. Many won’t … Continue reading
Posted in Government study predictions, Groundwater, Peak Food, Peak Water
Tagged aquifer, california, depletion, groundwater, Ogallala, USGS
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Toxic chemicals threaten health, reproduction, cause cancer, diabetes
Preface. This post could have thousands more entries, but devoting energyskeptic to the tens of thousands of chemicals that are legally polluting our environment would be a full-time job. However scary the transition from fossils back to wood world may … Continue reading
Posted in Chemical Pollution, Chemicals
Tagged bisphenol A, BPA, CFC, chemicals, EDC, endocrine disrupting chemicals, existential threat, health, phthalates, pollution, reproduction
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Your life and the economy depend on biodiversity
Preface. We are trained in school, newspapers, and TV to view the world politically and economically. Not ecologically. The World Economic Forum article below is an excellent summary of why biodiversity is so important, as much as climate change, which … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Limits To Growth
Tagged biodiversity, ecology, ecosystems, limits to growth
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