How healthy is your soil?
How healthy is your soil? In celebration of World Soil Day, December 5, 2021, we want to help farmers around the world to better understand their soil. Our soils are an incredible resource – they have a remarkable ability to clean water and help mitigate climate change, they support biodiversity and are the reason we […]
Anatomy of a photovoltaic battery system – Part 1
Gound mounted array of polycrystalline panels, Paynes Creek National park, Toledo Institute for Development and Environment Anatomy of a photovoltaic battery system – Part 1 Maya Mountain Research Farm was founded in 1988 in a remote area that had no electricity. In 1994 we built our first small stand alone 12 volt system which ran […]
Hunting Tips: The Pros and Cons Of Two Different Field Dressing Methods
Hunting Tips: The Pros and Cons Of Two Different Field Dressing Methods As winter approaches and people desire more self-reliance, the hobby of hunting has become wildly popular. Because of that, there are two main methods of field dressing an animal, and here are the pros and cons. As winter approaches and people desire more […]
Singapore Power Prices Spike 1,290% As Energy Crisis Emerges
Singapore Power Prices Spike 1,290% As Energy Crisis Emerges The global energy crisis continues to worsen with its latest victim Singapore. Power prices in the Southeast Asian country saw a dramatic surge in wholesale power prices. According to Bloomberg, provisional Uniform Singapore Energy Price jumped S$4,499 ($3,293) per megawatt-hour, the highest on record or about a […]
OPEC and Russia will pump more oil in January despite price plunge
OPEC and Russia will pump more oil in January despite price plunge Saudi Arabia’s energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, attends the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November. London (CNN Business)Saudi Arabia, Russia and other leading oil producers have decided to stick with plans to increase supply in January despite a recent plunge in […]
Zog Energy becomes 25th UK supplier to go bust in three months
Zog Energy becomes 25th UK supplier to go bust in three months Company, which supplied gas to about 11,700 households, is another victim of record market prices Zog Energy was founded in 2012 with a plan to offer households simple, affordable gas tariffs. Photograph: Niklas Halle’n/AFP/Getty Images Another of the UK’s small energy companies has […]
Our $29 Trillion Deficit, Interest Rates, Inflation, And Debt
Our $29 Trillion Deficit, Interest Rates, Inflation, And Debt The emergence and acceptance of Modern Monetary Theory has turned our economic system upside down. Skeptics of its substance and sustainability have been brushed aside temporarily but expect the MMT experiment to collapse and end in ruin. To us that believe in old school economics, […]
Are You Ready for Collapse?
Are You Ready for Collapse? MIT analyzed it and KPMG updated it: economic collapse is nigh. © Skorzewiak / Shutterstock In 2019, Pierre Charbonnier penned an article for the French journal Revue du Crieur on the emerging trend known as collapsology. “Theories about the imminent collapse of industrial civilization are in vogue,” he writes in an […]
On the Virtues of Self-delusion—or maybe not!
On the Virtues of Self-delusion—or maybe not!
The latest monster ships could be a disaster
The latest monster ships could be a disaster Preface. The article below makes the case for the hazards of one of these enormous ships running aground or sinking, blocking a major shipping line, leaking oil, and possibly impossible to salvage. In 2020, the largest container ship is the HMM Algeciras at 1,312 feet (400 m) […]
Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct
Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct Habitat degradation, low genetic variation and declining fertility are setting Homo sapiens up for collapse Credit: Jordan Lye/Getty Images Cast your mind back, if you will, to 1965, when Tom Lehrer recorded his live album That Was the Year That Was. Lehrer prefaced a song called “So Long Mom (A Song for […]
When Will Consumers Balk at Surging Prices?
When Will Consumers Balk at Surging Prices? That’s the big question. Looking for signs of widespread push-back but not finding much. Consumers pay whatever. One of the bizarre factors that has driven the current surge in inflation – the worst in 30 years per CPI-U, the worst in 40 years per CPI-W – has been the sudden […]
Blah, blah, blah, yay: Another epic fail for the COP, but seeds of growth for our movements
Blah, blah, blah, yay: Another epic fail for the COP, but seeds of growth for our movements Introduction As COP 26 began, Greta Thunberg summed up the whole thing quite succinctly using just one word, three times: Blah blah blah. And as it ended two weeks later, she tweeted: The #COP26 is over. Here’s a brief summary: […]
Limits to Growth at 50 Years
Limits to Growth at 50 Years
Warmongers Would Let Ukraine Become World War III
Warmongers Would Let Ukraine Become World War III They just won’t let it go. It seems many of the so-called “warmongers” are hellbent on turning Ukraine into a major war whether the countries involved want it or not. History shows what has become known as “proxy wars” create profits for companies manufacturing weapons. The cost, […]
