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The Bulletin: May 22-28, 2025

May 28, 2025

The Bulletin: May 22-28, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Witness to Collapse Climate Change: The Crisis Management Model – Ecosophia Restoring Global Ecology: The Great Green Wall and Large-Scale Permaculture in Action Building a Mycelial Network of Resistance and Resilience Gazprom CEO Sounds […]

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The Holy Trinity

May 28, 2024

The Holy Trinity Getting a grip on energy, materials and civilisation I like trying to get to the internal organs of the matter. Not just the heart, but also the brain, the kidneys, the stomach, the lungs, the skeleton. My conversation with Tim Garrett last week did just that, centring the matter of the universe alongside energy […]

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The “New Energy Economy”: An Exercise in Magical Thinking

October 25, 2021

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 […]

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Do we Still have a Chance? The Challenge of Emergency Measures for the Survival of Humankind

October 1, 2020

Do we Still have a Chance? The Challenge of Emergency Measures for the Survival of Humankind   The epidemic of COVID-19 seems to have snuffed out all other subjects of debate. But there remain problems that we could define as a little more worrisome than the COVID pandemic, for instance, the possibility of the extinction […]

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Renewables Are Dead

May 7, 2019

Renewables Are Dead If I’ve said once that those among us who tout renewable energy should pay more attention to the 2nd law of Thermodynamics, I must have said it a hundred times. But I hardly ever get the impression that people understand why. And it seems so obvious. A quote I often use from […]

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Green New Physics

March 21, 2019

Green New Physics You could probably say I’m sympathetic to the schoolchildren protesting against climate change, and I’m sympathetic to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her call for a Green New Deal. Young people are the future, and they deserve a voice about that future. At the same time, I’m also deeply skeptical about their understanding of […]

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There Is Just One Thing Preventing Elon Musk’s Vision From Coming True: The Laws Of Physics

November 25, 2017

There Is Just One Thing Preventing Elon Musk’s Vision From Coming True: The Laws Of Physics When Elon Musk stepped on stage at Tesla’s product-launch event earlier this month, he knew the market’s confidence in Tesla’s brand had sunk to an all-time low since he took over the company a decade ago. So, he resorted […]

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Split personalities: We like some science, but not all of it

April 18, 2017

Split personalities: We like some science, but not all of it We modern folk are in a bind. We embrace what the sciences and the technology that flows from them have to offer, but we refuse to believe that we live in the world described by those very sciences. Here I’m not merely talking about […]

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The Physics of Energy and the Economy

February 8, 2016

The Physics of Energy and the Economy I approach the subject of the physics of energy and the economy with some trepidation. An economy seems to be a dissipative system, but what does this really mean? There are not many people who understand dissipative systems, and very few who understand how an economy operates. The combination leads […]

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