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- We already have a date for the zenith of civilization: 2025-2026
- Escape to Mars after we’ve trashed the Earth?
- Spermageddon: Sperm is declining around the world
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- Who Killed the Electric Car & more importantly, the Electric Truck?
- President Carter’s energy solutions 1977
- Peak Menhaden
- Hemp for paper, textiles, the war on drugs, and more
- Why towns have a hard time adding EV, solar, heat pumps
- Building a national super grid in America
- The Mayflower from the book The Barbarous Years
- Deep Sea Oil
- Book review of “Livewired. The inside story of the ever-changing brain”
- The conveyor belt may be slowing down — Yikes!
- Battery Energy storage batteries (BESS) too complex to ever be commercial
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Conservation? Maybe not: Jevon’s Paradox & the Rebound Effect
Conservation? Maybe not: Jevon’s Paradox & the Rebound Effect by Alice Friedemann, October 7, 2014 The rebound effect makes it much more difficult to solve our energy problems, because the full energy savings aren’t realized, and the energy savings can … Continue reading
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Become a Bison rancher
Far more buffalo can be grazed per acre than cattle. It’s likely wild bison will return to the Great Plains in the future. Already there are fewer people in areas where the Ogalla aquifer has been depleted than when Native … Continue reading
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What we knew about the energy crisis back in 1977
A friend of mine found this yesterday in one of her folders from college. If seems like even more Americans are ignorant and blindly techno-optimist today than they were 40 years ago. The last item of how we might proceed … Continue reading
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Charles Hugh Smith: How To Find Shelter From The Coming Storms?
How To Find Shelter From The Coming Storms? by Charles Hugh Smith Some basic suggestions for those who are seeking shelter from the coming storms of global financial crisis and recession. Reader Andy recently wrote: “I look forward to your … Continue reading
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Richard Duncan : Olduvai Gorge – Civilization ends when Electric Grids Permanently Fail
The Olduvai Theory – Heading into the Gorge By Richard C. Duncan, Ph.D. Volume 23, Number 2 (Winter 2013) Summary: The Olduvai Theory is defined as the ratio of world energy production and population. It states that average energy production … Continue reading
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More diesel for tractors & trucks, less gas for cars
The 1980 rationing plan would shift whatever petroleum was needed to agriculture and other essential services before making it available to the public via rationing. This would be diesel since tractors, harvesters, trucks, and trains can’t and don’t burn gasoline. … Continue reading
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Peak Resources and the Preservation of Knowledge
Peak Resources and the Preservation of Knowledge By Alice Friedemann January 6, 2006 “Peak oil will affect more people, in more places, in more ways, than anything else in the history of the world”. Walter Youngquist, author of Geodestinies Summary … Continue reading
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Gardening – Grow Your Own Food
Best Home or small farm method I’ve taken many gardening and permaculture classes, but by far the best way to grow your own food is explained in John Jeavons’ book “How to grow more vegetables And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains … Continue reading
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29 Things to Keep in Mind about buying Real Estate
This is an edited down version of 30 Reasons To Get Out Of Real Estate And Into REAL Assets by “Don’t Tread on Me” at businessinsider.com. The shift from paper assets to real assets is driven by money/debt creation. Since … Continue reading
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