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A quarter of America could experience LONG BLACKOUTS this winter due to energy supply problems
A quarter of America could experience LONG BLACKOUTS this winter due to energy supply problems (Natural News) Large parts of North America could face long blackouts and other energy emergencies this winter as supplies of natural gas and coal begin to tighten. According to the latest seasonal assessment of the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC), a large […]
As Fuel Prices Poised to TRIPLE, EU Mulls Rationing Gas Across Bloc Monday
As Fuel Prices Poised to TRIPLE, EU Mulls Rationing Gas Across Bloc Monday The European Union (EU) is going down in flames as its fuel taps from Russia run dry. Issues related to the war in Ukraine have resulted in no more gas flowing through the Nord Stream 1 (NS1) pipeline and soon-to-be tripled gas prices across Europe. To avoid what […]
Russia-Ukraine War and the Changing Energy Landscape.
Russia-Ukraine War and the Changing Energy Landscape. The can of worms that is our global use of energy, has been levered open yet further by the escalating war in Ukraine. Prices of all types of energy had already been hiked dramatically as a result of a strong economic rebound post-covid, but with limited capacity to […]
What ‘transition’? Renewable energy is growing, but overall energy demand is growing faster
What ‘transition’? Renewable energy is growing, but overall energy demand is growing faster The rise in the renewable energy that’s available is still lower than the rise in global energy demand overall. The shortfall between renewable energy supply and power demand will only widen as economies reopen and travel resumes, with demand already spiking to […]
Why the Standard Model of Future Energy Supply Doesn’t Work
Why the Standard Model of Future Energy Supply Doesn’t Work The most prevalent view regarding future oil supply, as well as total energy supply, seems to be fairly closely related to that expressed by Peak Oilers. Future fossil fuel supply is assumed to be determined by the resources in the ground and the technology available for […]
Battery storage* in perspective – solving 1% of the problem
Battery storage* in perspective – solving 1% of the problem The energy world is fixated on the “huge” amounts of battery storage presently being installed to back up slowly-increasing levels of intermittent renewables generation. The feeling seems to be that as soon as enough batteries are installed to take care of daily supply/demand imbalances we […]
Nine Reasons Why Globalization Can’t Be Permanent
Nine Reasons Why Globalization Can’t Be Permanent Since the late 1990s, globalization has seemed to be the great hope for the future. Now this great hope seems to be dimming. Globalization sets up conflict in the area of jobs. Countries around the world compete for development and jobs. If there is not enough cheap-to-produce energy to go […]
How to Run the Economy on the Weather
How to Run the Economy on the Weather Before the Industrial Revolution, people adjusted their energy demand to a variable energy supply. Our global trade and transport system — which relied on sail boats — operated only when the wind blew, as did the mills that supplied our food and powered many manufacturing processes. The […]
Peak Oil: The Next Steps Pt 1
Peak Oil: The Next Steps Pt 1 I ended last week’s post by explaining the significance of getting all of the facts about our energy supply future as a first step. Before deciding whether or not to accept the realities of a depleting finite resource and the impact this will have on our society—or ignoring […]
Peak Oil: Just A Distraction Pt 3
Peak Oil: Just A Distraction Pt 3 … [T]here is no intellectually honest way to believe that the world can continue its near-total reliance on fossil fuels for much more than another decade — a paltry window of opportunity. We also know that we cannot wait until they go into decline before reaching for renewables […]
Peak Oil: One Track Minds
Peak Oil: One Track Minds One could argue that the most dangerous push in our energy/environment discussion is that which seeks to stop/limit oil production and/or divest from oil companies. That’s because our primary fuel has nowhere near a significant substitute. As such, publicly-traded oil companies are the lone bastion between us and a complete […]
Charts showing the long-term GDP-energy tie (Part 2 – A New Theory of Energy and the Economy)
Charts showing the long-term GDP-energy tie (Part 2 – A New Theory of Energy and the Economy) In Part 1 of this series, I talked about why cheap fuels act to create economic growth. In this post, we will look at some supporting data showing how this connection works. The data is over a very long time […]
Peak Oil: Same Nonsense, Different Day Pt 2 – Peak Oil Matters
Peak Oil: Same Nonsense, Different Day Pt 2 – Peak Oil Matters. This is a follow-up to my most recent post, in which I offered a few observations on commentary attempting to debunk the concept of peak oil courtesy of this recent article by John Kemp. [Quotes here are from the Kemp article unless noted otherwise.] Economist James Hamilton, […]
