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Will The Third Great Energy Revolution End The Oil & Gas Industry?
Will The Third Great Energy Revolution End The Oil & Gas Industry? The history of crude oil and natural gas is a history of technological innovation. Until recently the innovation supported crude oil and natural gas. Now, it challenges it, causing structural changes in the crude oil and natural gas markets. Originally, crude oil was […]
Must Stop Digging
Must Stop Digging Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Intel and Draghi all handily beat expectations. Booming technology earnings confirm the degree to which Bubble Dynamics have become entrenched within the real economy. Draghi confirms that central bankers remain petrified by the thought of piercing Bubbles. There is a prevailing view that Bubbles reflect asset price gains beyond […]
Even Advanced Technology Cannot Explain Human Action or Predict Markets
Even Advanced Technology Cannot Explain Human Action or Predict Markets The logic of the human mind will prevail over paternalist dictates and the hubris of the social engineers. For more than a century, the world has been caught in the grip of social engineers and political paternalists who are determined to either radically remake society […]
There’s No APP for That: Technology and Morality in the Age of Climate Change, Overpopulation, and Biodiversity Loss
THERE’S NO APP FOR THAT: TECHNOLOGY AND MORALITY IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, OVERPOPULATION, AND BIODIVERSITY LOSS Download Listen Embed It has become something of a mantra within the sustainability movement that innovations in technology will save the world and all of us in it, but we tend to forget that technology played a […]
The future of renewable energy
The future of renewable energy I’ve been reflecting on the idea that the current energy system is starting to be swept along by a technological revolution somewhat akin to the “revolution” over the last 30 years in computers and telecommunications that has brought personal computers, mobile phones and the internet. Read some of the literature […]
The Future (Not)
The Future (Not) I took myself to the new movie Blade Runner 2049 to see what kind of future the Hollywood dream-shop is serving up in these days. It was an excellent illustration of the over-investments in technology with diminishing returns that are dragging us into collapse and of the attendant techno-narcissism that afflicts the […]
What Defines Appropriate Technology?
WHAT DEFINES APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY? OUR CURRENT ADDICTION TO TECHNOLOGY If there is one defining aspect of our modern civilization it´s that we are a technological species. Compared to other organisms with whom we share this planet, we Homo sapiens aren´t exactly well adapted to long term survival. We have no coat of fur to keep […]
We’ve Created A Monster – Ron Paul Says It’s “Fantastic” That WikiLeaks Exposed The CIA
We’ve Created A Monster – Ron Paul Says It’s “Fantastic” That WikiLeaks Exposed The CIA Ron Paul, the prominent libertarian communicator and three-time US presidential candidate, declared this week in a Fox Business interview that it is “fantastic” that WikiLeaks revealed on Tuesday thousands of US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) documents and files. Speaking with host Kennedy, Paul […]
How Researchers Could Miss the Real Energy Story
How Researchers Could Miss the Real Energy Story I have been telling a fairly different energy story from most energy researchers. How could I possibly be correct? What have other researchers been missing? The “standard” approach is to start from the amount of resources that we have of a particular type, for example, oil in the ground, […]
Energy limits: Why we see rising wealth disparity and low prices
Energy limits: Why we see rising wealth disparity and low prices Last week, I gave a fairly wide-ranging presentation at the 2016 Biophysical Economics Conference called Complexity: The Connection Between Fossil Fuel EROI, Human Energy EROI, and Debt (pdf). In this post, I discuss the portion of the talk that explains several key issues: Why we are right now seeing so many […]
Edward Snowden Demonstrates How To “Go Black”
Edward Snowden Demonstrates How To “Go Black” When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden first exposed the world tojust how easily the government could compromise their technology and spy on them, many immediately sought ways to secure their data and protect their gadgets. But, as Wired.com reports, Snowden is here to help. “‘Going Black’ is a pretty big ask,” he […]
6 Giant Corporations Control The Media, And Americans Consume 10 Hours Of ‘Programming’ A Day
6 Giant Corporations Control The Media, And Americans Consume 10 Hours Of ‘Programming’ A Day If you allow someone to pump hours of “programming” into your mind every single day, it is inevitable that it is eventually going to have a major impact on how you view the world. In America today, the average person […]
Automating Ourselves To Unemployment
Tatiana Shepeleva/Shutterstock Automating Ourselves To Unemployment How shortsighted policies are creating a long-term crisis Students of Austrian business cycle theory are familiar with the term malinvestment. A malinvestment is any poor use of resources or capital, commonly made in response to bad policy (usually artificially low interest rates and/or unsustainable increases in the monetary supply). The […]
False Solutions? 3 Ways To Evaluate Grand Climate Proposals
False Solutions? 3 Ways To Evaluate Grand Climate Proposals The climate news gets scarier by the day. February obliterated all records as the warmest seasonally-adjusted month since measurements began. At this rate, we’re on a path to blow through the 1.5º C temperature rise the nations of the world set as a goal at COP21, not in decades but […]
One Nation Under Surveillance – U.S. Government Pushed Tech Companies to Hand Over Source Code
One Nation Under Surveillance – U.S. Government Pushed Tech Companies to Hand Over Source Code Our founding fathers studied power structures over the millennia and knew exactly what they were doing when solidifying the Bill of Rights into the U.S. Constitution. All it took was a couple hundred years, an extraordinarily ignorant and apathetic American […]
