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Category Archives: Infrastructure
Biggest Waste of Wealth in All of history: America’s Interstate Highway system
A book review by Alice Friedemann of: Swift, Earl. 2012. The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways. Related articles $46 Trillion Infrastructure in USA, $6 Trillion is Transportation Expressways & … Continue reading
Posted in Concrete, Infrastructure Books, Roads, Transportation, Transportation Infrastructure, Trucks
Tagged damage, highway, interstate, truck
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Expressways & Interstates are only designed to last for 20 years
Preface. I make the case that civilization would end in a week if trucks stopped running in my first book, and though I had in mind that they would be running low on diesel fuel on the downside of world … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure & Fast Crash, Roads, Trucks
Tagged energy efficiency, infrastructure, railroad, roads, train, truck
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Michael Dittmar, Institute of Particle Physics: Peak Uranium 2015
The End of Cheap Uranium June 17, 2011. Michael Dittmar, Institute of Particle Physics, Zurich, Switzerland Journal: Science of the Total Environment This paper concludes that “the end of the cheap uranium supply will result in a chaotic phase-out … Continue reading
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Energy Watch Group. Peak Uranium 2020-2035
Energy Watch Group. March 2013. Fossil and Nuclear Fuels – the Supply Outlook (172 pages) Uranium production peaks for the same reasons as oil, coal, and natural gas: the depletion of easy and cheap to develop mines. EWG’s guess is … Continue reading
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Feedback Loops
1) Feedback loops that lead to oil prices drop below the cost of production Oil price rises or spikes from blockage of straits of hormuz, exports decline (ELM), Saudi Arabia and/or Middle Eastern high decline rates, China and India … Continue reading
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Technology Won’t Save Us
Too many science fiction books, movies, comic books, Landing on the Moon, the Manhattan Project, and Happy Endings have created an unspoken certainty that a hero will arrive before aliens can destroy the Earth and that alternative energy will allow … Continue reading
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Electric Grid Overview
[ Our energy, transportation, electric, water and other infrastructures are all heavily dependent on each other, making the U.S. one of the most vulnerable nations on earth. Although transportation is the most essential of all, especially trucks, which make the … Continue reading
Posted in Electric Grid, Electric Grid & EMP Electromagnetic Pulse, Energy
Tagged alternative energy, blackout, cyber attack, electric grid, overview, stability
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Energy in the Food System uses 19% of all energy consumed in the USA. Pimentel 2008
Preface. There are many ways to calculate how much energy is used in the food system This first paper estimates 19%, the paper below 14%. It all depends on how much you include, and whether it is just the farm … Continue reading
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Tagged energy, food
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How the sun could end Nuclear Power
Flare-up: How the Sun Could Put an End to Nuclear Power Gar Smith. Spring 2012. Earth Island Journal. According to NASA, the planet will soon face an outbreak of powerful solar flares capable of collapsing global power grids. Were this … Continue reading
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Writing on the wall for prime farmland. Years of irrigation have taken toll on San Joaquin Valley.
Carolyn Lochhead. March 24, 2014. Writing on the wall for prime farmland. Years of irrigation have taken toll on San Joaquin Valley. San Francisco Chronicle. Decades of irrigation have leached salts and toxic minerals from the soil [in the San … Continue reading
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