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Science magazine on Peak Sand 2017 and 2018
Science magazine on Peak Sand 2017 and 2018 [ Sand is essential to make concrete, glass, silicon for computer chips, and many other products (longer list in Peak Sand), so no wonder top journal “Science” has had two articles on this topic. Sand mining also ruins ecosystems, lessens biodiversity, impairs water and food security, makes storm […]
Jorg Friedrichs: The future is not what it used to be. climate change and energy scarcity
Jorg Friedrichs: The future is not what it used to be. climate change and energy scarcity Preface. This book ranges across many topics and I’ve only included a few bits and pieces. Friedrichs discusses what to do, recovery, denial, migration, historically how Japan, North Korea, and Cuba reacted to sudden energy decline and based on […]
60 minutes promotes what is probably a cellulosic biomass scam on 2019-1-6
60 minutes promotes what is probably a cellulosic biomass scam on 2019-1-6 Preface. Hey 60 minutes, do some fact checking first. On January 6, 2019, 60 Minutes had a segment on an amazing biofuels breakthrough invention by Marshall Medoff, an “81-year old eccentric with no science degree” (watch the video or read the transcript here). […]
Lakes run dry from too much water extraction and climate change
Lakes run dry from too much water extraction and climate change Source: Hannah Osborne. Feb 8, 2016. Bolivia’s vanishing Lake Poopó: ESA images show fully evaporated lake from space. International Business Times. Preface. It’s bad enough that aquifers are being depleted that won’t recharge until after the next ice age, or in some places like […]
Natural gas is a stupid transportation fuel
Natural gas is a stupid transportation fuel [ My comment: The only reason natural gas has come up as a transportation fuel at all is the false belief that there is 100 years of natural gas (even this article does, but natural gas may last far less for reasons explained in articles here). Although this article […]
Achieving U.S. energy independence with our “neighbors” oil
Achieving U.S. energy independence with our “neighbors” oil [ The main U.S. interest becoming more energy independent by getting oil from our “neighbors” Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, and Canada, while at the same time minimizing growing Chinese and Russian attempts to get their oil and other natural resources. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “When Trucks Stop Running: […]
Unpave low traffic roads to save energy and money
Unpave low traffic roads to save energy and money The U.S. has 4.1 million miles of roads (1.9 million paved, 2.2 million gravel). About 3 million miles of roads have less than 2,000 vehicles a day, less than 15% of all traffic. The paved portion of these low-volume roads ought to be evaluated for their […]
When Trucks Stop Running, So Does Civilization. Energy and the Future of Transportation.
When Trucks Stop Running, So Does Civilization. Energy and the Future of Transportation. Also see: When Trucks Stop Running: Table of Contents, Preface, References Virtually everything in our homes, everything in our stores, got there on a truck. Prior to that, 90 percent of those items were transported on a ship and/or a train. If trucks, […]
