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- 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
- Electrifying freight trains in the U.S. is a bad idea
Category Archives: Infrastructure
What will future societies be like after fossil fuels are gone?
Preface. I was writing about how deadly and brutal wars are today, nuclear bombs, and all the mafia totalitarian and gangster states like Russia and Mexico, Ecuador, various African states that make the lives of their people miserable and getting … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Vaclav Smil, War
Tagged agriculture, civlization, energy, food, smil, war
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Phosphate: All hopes for food and LFP batteries rest on Morocco with up to 85% of remaining reserves
Phosphate is absolutely essential for both plants and animals. It’s estimated that Morocco has of 75-85% of phosphate reserves. How long reserves will last depends on being economic. So if the price of oil rises too high or is scarce, … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture
Tagged agriculture, food, peak, peak phosphate, peak phosphorus, phosphorus, reserves
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‘The oil we eat’. Following the food chain back to iraq
Source: The Oil We Eat – How Our Food System Depends On Oil and How Fragile It Makes Our Food Security Preface. Even though this article was published in 2004, it is still true today, only worse. This article will … Continue reading
Posted in Overpopulation, Peak Food, Peak Topsoil
Tagged overpopulation, peak food, peak soil
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Vanishing open spaces: population growth and sprawl in America
Preface. Before the fossil fuel age began, up to 90% were farmers. The end of the brief blip of oil production will send us back to that time (if we aren’t so far into overshoot we go back to … Continue reading
Posted in Overpopulation, Peak Food, Soil
Tagged agriculture, peak food, population, sprawl
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A transition from fossil fuels to renewables could take a century – if it ever happens
In 2024 and the previous 60 years, primary energy consumption was 80% or more fossil fuels. An energy transition is not happening, fossil fuel growth exceeds renewable growth, reliability requires fossil fuel electricity generating plants to remain, they are not … Continue reading
Posted in An Overview, Infrastructure & Fast Crash, Vaclav Smil
Tagged diesel engine, energy transition, vaclav smil
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Electrifying freight trains in the U.S. is a bad idea
Diesel-electric locomotives use electricity to drive forward motion despite the name ‘diesel’. A large diesel engine turns a shaft that drives an AC generator which makes electricity. This electrical energy powers large electric motors at the wheels called ‘traction motors’ … Continue reading
Posted in Electric Grid, Electrification, Railroads
Tagged diesel-electric, electrification, electrify, electrify rail, rail, train, train electrification
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Energy, Water, & Climate Change are interdependent
Preface. This is a very long post with summaries of two GAO reports on interdependencies of energy, water, and climate change from 2014 and 2012, which are still true today. While cheap and plentiful oil remains, these problems can be … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy Infrastructure, Energy Production, GAO Government Accountability Office, Interdependencies
Tagged climate change, energy, infrastructure, interdependency
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Book Review “The Outlawed Ocean” by Ian Urbina
Preface. This is a book review of Urbina’s “The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier.” So many fishermen are enslaved for years, yet another reason to pay more for local fish at higher prices. Globally, so many fish … Continue reading
Posted in Fisheries, Fishery destruction, Natural History, Peak Food
Tagged fishery, peak fish, peak food, piracy, slavery
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Motherboards: too complicated to make after oil
Preface. The wood world of the future simply won’t have the energy and minerals required to make electronic devices and the precision machine tools to make them. Once diesel fuel starts to decline, all supply chains will be affected. There … Continue reading
Posted in Microchips and computers
Tagged computer, computer chip, high-tech, motherboard
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