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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXIV–We’re Saved! Solar Photovoltaic Panels.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXIV–We’re Saved! Solar Photovoltaic Panels. CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Recently, a member (JS) of a Facebook Group (Peak Oil) I am a member of posted a graph (see above) of the massive increase in the energy supplied by solar photovoltaic panels and led […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXVII–Limitless, ‘Clean’ Energy: More Magical Thinking
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXVII December 29, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Limitless, ‘Clean’ Energy: More Magical Thinking A brief contemplation that shares my comment on the latest post by The Honest Sorcerer regarding the recent fusion energy ‘breakthrough’ that has been making the rounds on many media sites. My current […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVIII–Personal Experience With ‘Renewables’
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVIII November 20, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Personal Experience With ‘Renewables’ Let me begin this contemplation by stating that I do not hate ‘renewables’ nor am I a fossil fuel industry shill (the two common accusations lobbed at me whenever I criticise the notion of a […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVI–Roadblocks To Our ‘Renewable’ Energy Transition: Debt, Resource Constraints, and Diminishing Returns
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVI November 12, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Roadblocks To Our ‘Renewable’ Energy Transition: Debt, Resource Constraints, and Diminishing Returns Today’s contemplation is a quick rundown of three of the roadblocks I see preventing us from achieving the utopian dream of a seamless ‘clean’ energy transition from […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXII–Magical Thinking About the Energy Transition
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXII July 31, 2022 (original posting date) Athens, Greece (1984). Photo by author. Magical Thinking About the Energy Transition A really short contemplation prompted by an article posted in Resilience.org from The Rapid Transition Alliance regarding sustaining long-distance trade via electric ships. The entire narrative around ‘electrifying’ everything is primarily about the marketing […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LVIII–Magical Thinking to Help Avoid Anxiety-Provoking Thoughts
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LVIII July 6, 2022 (original posting date) Arles, France (1984). Photo by author. Magical Thinking to Help Avoid Anxiety-Provoking Thoughts Today’s contemplation shares a comment I made to a Facebook Group a number of days ago in response to an article by Dr. Ugo Bardi — whose writing, especially around limits to growth and his […]
Why Is Society Still Mired in Mainstream Thinking?
Why Is Society Still Mired in Mainstream Thinking? Eagle Rock Train Station, Eagle Rock, Virginia In my last article, I spent a considerable amount of time describing how a large part of society today is still mired in mainstream thinking and I pointed out how I don’t see or expect the possibility that much will […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLVI–Peak Oil, Complexity, Psychology, Magical Thinking, and War
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLVI Mexico (1988). Photo by author. Peak Oil, Complexity, Psychology, Magical Thinking, and War Again, some sharing of my comments and others’ on a couple of recent FB Group posts. First, a post from the Peak Oil Group I am a member of where some great conversations happen. In this particular situation, […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXIII–‘Clean Energy’ and the Stages of Grieving
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXIII Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author ‘Clean Energy’ and the Stages of Grieving Today’s thought was motivated by another Tyee article that carries on the notion of ‘clean energy’ and the ‘magical thinking’ needed to buy into such narratives. As long as language is being manipulated (e.g., ‘clean energy’ is a […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVI–Finite Energy, Overconsumption, and Magical Thinking Through Denial
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVI May 24, 2021 Knossos, Greece (1993) Photo by author Finite Energy, Overconsumption, and Magical Thinking Through Denial Another quick thought on our impending energy cliff situation and comment on an article suggesting overconsumption is our greatest threat and that we can be happy without it. This is an excellent article. The threats […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XX–Climate Emergency Action Plan: Electrification and Magical Thinking
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XX June 9, 2021 Pompeii, Italy (1993) Photo by author Climate Emergency Action Plan: Electrification and Magical Thinking Today’s contemplation is once again generated by way of an article from the online media site The Tyee. It’s topic is the city of Vancouver’s (British Columbia, Canada) attempts to require ‘electrification’ of all […]
Say M for Magic!
Say M for Magic! Simon Sinek, Underpants Gnomes and the Energy Transition Photo by israel palacio on Unsplash One of the goals of this blog — beyond making an attempt at giving a technical explanation on how this iteration of a technological civilization works, and why it is inherently unsustainable — is to explore the thought patterns we […]
On Magical Thinking
On Magical Thinking In which the motivation behind the Honest Sorcerer gets revealed Image credit: Patrick Hendry via Unsplash My last article on the future of electricity has received quite a few critical comments both from proponents of nuclear as well as solar energy, accusing me with ‘denigrating’ their favored solution. The aim of this is project, the […]
Another extraordinary delusion: Mining helium from the Moon
Another extraordinary delusion: Mining helium from the Moon Asia Times tells us that there is a “secret mining war” taking place in space over helium-3, a version of helium which is surprisingly abundant on the Moon. Helium-3 is an isotope of helium with two protons and one neutron. The far more prevalent arrangement is helium-4, two […]
The “New Energy Economy”: An Exercise in Magical Thinking
The “New Energy Economy”: An Exercise in Magical Thinking EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A movement has been growing for decades to replace hydrocarbons, which collectively supply 84% of the world’s energy. It began with the fear that we were running out of oil. That fear has since migrated to the belief that, because of climate change and […]
