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Category Archives: 3) Fast Crash
Gail Tverberg on why Oil Decline will be FAST
Will the decline in world oil supply be fast or slow? April 11, 2011 by Gail Tverberg Below are excerpts, read the link above to see all of this excellent article. Gail makes the case that the downslope of energy … 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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Homer-Dixon Key findings on resources and war / violence
The Project on Environmental Scarcities, State Capacity, and Civil Violence Key Findings Abot 50 experts from 5 countries, developed a detailed set of conceptual tools for thinking about environmental scarcity and state capacity. Environmental scarcity has 3 sources: reduced resource … Continue reading
Posted in 2) Collapse, Caused by Scarce Resources, Collapsed & collapsing nations, Scientists, Stages of, Violence, War
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After a nation crashes it can’t afford oil, collapse happens FAST
Why fixing energy policy is so difficult April 25, 2011 by Gail Tverberg Everyone would like to fix the US energy policy, but doing so is almost impossible, in my view, because we need to be planning for a much bigger … 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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Oil Crunch 2015: UK Industry Task force on Peak Oil & Energy Security (ITPOES)
Ahmed, N. 28 Mar 2014. Ex govt adviser: “global market shock” from “oil crash” could hit in 2015. The Guardian. Former oil geologist Dr. Jeremy Leggett, identified 5 “global systemic risks (oil depletion, carbon emissions, carbon assets, shale gas, and … Continue reading
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Peak Oil in the news
Economic vulnerability to Peak Oil Christian Kerschner Global Environmental Change Volume 23, Issue 6, December 2013, Pages 1424–1433 Key points from a review of this article at Green Energy This study shows which sectors could put the entire U.S. economy … 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
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Tagged alternative energy, blackout, cyber attack, electric grid, overview, stability
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How will the violence play out in the USA?
There will surely be violence as America’s population descends from 400 million to 100 million or less as energy production declines. Leaders will emerge who blame some particular group for our suffering. So far it’s been those terrorist Middle Easterners … Continue reading
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Energy return on investment, peak oil, and the end of economic growth
David J. Murphy and Charles A. S. Hall. 2011. Energy return on investment, peak oil, and the end of economic growth in “Ecological Economics Reviews.” Robert Costanza, Karin Limburg & Ida Kubiszewski, Eds. Annals of the New York Academy of … Continue reading
Posted in Charles A. S. Hall, EROEI Energy Returned on Energy Invested, EROEI remaining oil too low, How Much Left, Peak Oil, Scientists
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