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[Episode #108] – Will Energy Transition Be Rapid or Gradual?
[Episode #108] – Will Energy Transition Be Rapid or Gradual? Champions of energy transition see it happening relatively quickly, emphasizing the advances that are being made in technologies, policy, and projects. While fossil fuel incumbents see a long, gradual process of energy transition, assuring us that demand for their products will remain strong for decades […]
The Top 5 Ways We Use Oil & Gas
The Top 5 Ways We Use Oil & Gas If climate change and the use of fossil fuels is starting to worry you, consider this: The lion’s share of the petroleum in the United States is being used just to get around–to get people and things from point A to point B. Industrial, residential, commercial […]
Plans for a global Dystopia
Plans for a global Dystopia Global policy planners intend to deliver replacements for both dollar hegemony and fossil fuels. Plans may appear uncoordinated and in their early stages, but these issues are becoming increasingly linked. A monetary reset incorporating state-sponsored cryptocurrencies will enable exchange controls to be introduced between nations by separating cross-border trade payments […]
Economists: Greta Thunberg’s Ideal World Would Result In A “Human Tragedy Of Disastrous Proportions”
Economists: Greta Thunberg’s Ideal World Would Result In A “Human Tragedy Of Disastrous Proportions” Whether you were inspired by Greta Thunberg’s tearful UN speech… …. or merely thought it was the year’s greatest meme, in which an indoctrinated, emotionally frail child is being preyed upon by adults with a far bigger and more lucrative agenda, […]
The carbon trap by Paul Chefurka
The carbon trap by Paul Chefurka Preface. We are caught in the carbon trap — we utterly depend on fossils that don’t have an electric replacement. Someday people will figure this out the hard way, but Chefurka compassionately points out that there is no one to blame for our situation, and it’s not something we […]
Can concentrated solar power be used to generate industrial process heat?
Can concentrated solar power be used to generate industrial process heat? This post is based on the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) paper: Kurup, P., et al. 2015. Initial Investigation into the Potential of CSP Industrial Process Heat for the Southwest United States. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. *** Industries use enormous amounts of fossil fuels […]
Report: Just Ten Percent of Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Would Completely Pay For a Global “Green Transition”
Report: Just Ten Percent of Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Would Completely Pay For a Global “Green Transition” Stephanie Kelton explaining what Ben Bernanke meant in 2009 when he said the Fed doesn’t “spend tax money” when it transfers money to banks, but simply changes numbers in a computer. “To lend to a bank, we simply […]
As Cost of Climate Crisis Grows, Climate Movement Escalates
AS COST OF CLIMATE CRISIS GROWS, CLIMATE MOVEMENT ESCALATES The warnings of climate chaos are coming so fast they are difficult to keep up with. Storms, heatwaves and climate-related weather disasters are increasing at a rapid pace. The leadership of the two corporate-dominated political parties are trying to keep the climate issue out of the […]
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Future History
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Future History In Donald Trump’s go-back-to-where-you-didn’t-come-from America, where the fear of immigrants (as well as their grotesque mistreatment) still seems on the rise, just wait. There’s so much more to come. Climate change has barely begun to hit this planet big time and yet, while there’s much writing about the grim circumstances (including gangs, drugs, and […]
Why solar power can’t save us from the coming energy crisis
Why solar power can’t save us from the coming energy crisis Preface. Embedded within the posts below are even more reasons why solar electricity can’t replace fossil fuels. Meanwhile, all solar and wind do is add to the giant fire of burning fossil fuels and contribute a tiny bit more power, about 4% of all […]
‘Clean’ natural gas is actually the new coal, report says: Don Pittis
‘Clean’ natural gas is actually the new coal, report says: Don Pittis Global investment of more than $1 trillion in planned LNG plants at risk There’s no question that when you burn it, methane, the main component of natural gas, is much cleaner than coal. With that in mind, you might think a newly released report […]
Hydropower can’t help with the energy crisis
Hydropower can’t help with the energy crisis Preface. When fossil fuels are gone, there aren’t many ways to balance the unreliable, intermittent, and often absent for weeks at a time power from wind and solar. Biofuels and burning biomass is one solution, it’s dispatchable and can kick in at any time to make up for […]
Vanishing open spaces: population growth and sprawl in America
Vanishing open spaces: population growth and sprawl in America Before the fossil fuel age began, about 80 to 90% of people farmed to make a living. Since the end of the oil age will send us back to the past, farmland and farmers will once again comprise the greatest numbers of people. So it’s alarming […]
Rumors of War
Rumors of War The race to economic collapse is an international competition sparking threats and tensions summoning the specter of war. The imploding center of this collapse is that of industrial technocracy based on fossil fuels. All the nations will go through it on differing schedules. It has been playing out slowly, painfully, and deceptively […]
