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Placing Energy In A Battery Results In A Loss Of Power

May 7, 2021

Placing Energy In A Battery Results In A Loss Of Power Anyone that thinks we can simply store huge amounts of energy in large banks of batteries to use at any time has lost touch with reality. The brave new world of energy storage may not prove to be all it is cracked up to […]

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Heal the Planet for Profit – Redux

February 17, 2021

Heal the Planet for Profit – Redux Giorgione The Tempest 1508“Mankind’s only chance to not destroy its planet lies in diverging from all other species in that not all energy available to it, is used up as fast as possible. But that’s a big challenge. It would, speaking from a purely philosophical angle, truly separate us from […]

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The Real New Deal

March 8, 2019

The Real New Deal While we’re on the issue of the Green New Deal, here’s an article by Dr. D. with an intro by Dr. D., one he sent me in the mail that contained the actual article, and that I think shouldn’t go to waste. I hope he agrees. Waste being the key term […]

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Why Systems Fail

April 7, 2018

Why Systems Fail Since failing systems are incapable of structural reform, collapse is the only way forward. Systems fail for a wide range of reasons, but I’d like to focus on two that are easy to understand but hard to pin down. 1. Systems are accretions of structures and modifications laid down over time.Each layer […]

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Heal the Planet for Profit

December 18, 2016

Heal the Planet for Profit Parisians duck down to evade German sniper fire following Nazi surrender of Paris, 1945If you ever wondered what the odds are of mankind surviving, let alone ‘defeating’, climate change, look no further than the essay the Guardian published this week, written by Michael Bloomberg and Mark Carney. It proves beyond a […]

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An Energy Diet for a Healthy Planet–Part II

April 19, 2016

An Energy Diet for a Healthy Planet–Part II How do we get to 100 kwh/person/day, and where are we now? I’ve written before about how efficiency is not the enemy of resiliency and the benefits of going all-electric. In Part I, I mentioned a few ways to cut our energy diet from 230 kwh /person/day to 100 kwh/person/day. I […]

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A Bit Of Perspective On Gasoline Prices

June 13, 2015

A Bit Of Perspective On Gasoline Prices To me, commodity pricing today is so distorted that it is almost startling. The media continues its post Goldman Sachs’ bearish calls to pound away on OPEC supply with little attention paid to rising demand. Admittedly, as we end the summer driving season, such demand will wane, adding […]

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Not A Drop To Drink: The American Water Crisis [INFOGRAPHIC]

March 12, 2015

Not A Drop To Drink: The American Water Crisis [INFOGRAPHIC] Almost a year ago, we had talked about how we are potentially on the path to global Peak Water. Today’s infographic elaborates more on the problem on a national basis in the United States. Right now, the average American consumes about 100 gallons of water per […]

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