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Ethanol is a very bad joke
U.S. ethanol production in 2006 was roughly the equivalent of 64 million barrels of oil. The U.S. consumes 7.5 billion barrels of oil a year. So ethanol -- good ol' impractical, highly subsidized, uses-up-farmland, costs-more-to-make-it-than-it's-worth ethanol -- gave us about...
August 07, 2007
"You will never drive a hydrogen car"
Damn laws of thermodynamics, always getting in the way of those magical alternative energy solutions. UPDATE: Fred sends a more optimistic story....
July 28, 2007
"Alternative energy"
Appears to be a euphemism for "woefully inadequate substitute": There are approximately 4 billion arable acres in the world. There are many different feed stocks from which to make renewable diesel, but most biodiesel is made from rapeseed oil. Rapeseed...
July 26, 2007
"We cannot let other people do our thinking for us"
Especially when they're not thinking at all....
July 24, 2007
The myth of the myth of Peak Oil
Who has to say Peak Oil is real before it's real? But I'm sure everything is going to be just fine. The market will work it out®. (FAQ)...
June 29, 2007
Denial
Stages of a housing bubble....
June 27, 2007
U.S. energy policy: Now slightly less insane
We've decided to consume oil like lunatics with no concern for the future instead of raving lunatics with no concern for the future. I'm so proud of us. Our noble reduction in fuel consumption means we'll have to conquer one...
June 21, 2007
Humanure
Be the first on your block. Worried about pathogens? Joseph Jenkins says, I know you are but what am I. Sorry if you were eating something....
May 15, 2007
Let the good times roll
Jim Kunstler: The markets have been on an extraordinary spring run. The Dow finished 23 out of the last 26 days on the upside -- some of them pretty way on the upside. This is the biggest US stock market...
May 09, 2007
Green Apple
As usual, it seems that Steve Jobs really does have something to brag about in this area. So of course he does....
May 02, 2007
The water wars
Another virtually guaranteed future calamity that we tend not to think about. (Our children are sure to thank us for not noticing that water is a zero-sum game.)...
April 05, 2007
Don't worry, be happy
One more reason to dig that bunker: The sub-prime and overall mortgage carnage is now likely to lead to a financial crisis whose cleanup and bailout costs will make the S&L bailout bill look like spare change. We are only...
March 19, 2007
L.A. event
In case you need cheering up....
March 14, 2007
I so don't want to think about this
I managed to put Peak Oil out of my mind for awhile, but the evidence keeps stacking up. I wish the naysayers could answer the question: When the energy source that the entire global economy depends on starts running out,...
March 02, 2007
Alan Greenspan on Peak Oil
"The energy abundance on which this nation was built is over."...
June 08, 2006
"The End of Cheap Oil"
Way back in 1998, Scientific American published this article by two oil-industry geologists (PDF, 2.3 MB). Via Peak Oil News....
May 30, 2006
An Inconvenient Truth
It's a great movie. Highly recommended. It's amazing that a documentary about a man giving a slide-show presentation is so gripping from beginning to end. But, then, he does have that whole actual-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it thing going for him. This movie will...
May 28, 2006
He's a New World Man
A Post-Oil Man, that is. (via Video Dog)...
May 27, 2006
The $1 commute
Over at the Honda Insight discussion forums, some people compete with each other for the best miles-per-gallon achievements. One Insight driver set a Women's Division record yesterday for a round-trip commute. Here is her description of the trip: This represents...
May 27, 2006
Maybe Bush did win Florida in 2000
Greg Palast's article on Peak Oil today is so astoundingly ill-informed that I'd reconsider any conclusion he's reached. He doesn't have even a basic grasp of the issues involved here (say, 10 hours of research), and yet he makes sweeping...
May 23, 2006
The magical market
It will solve all problems, even geological ones: It is a marvel to behold the inability of mainstream American economists to explain the present, never mind predict the future! After several years of steady ramp-up in energy prices, their pronouncements...
May 23, 2006
The blue line scares me
Here. What if, due to geological factors beyond anyone's control, the blue line simply can't go any higher than, say, 90 or 95? But economic growth (i.e., nothing less than the present world economy itself) requires it to go to...
May 18, 2006
Matthew Savinar
Peak Oil guru Matthew Savinar is freakin' scary: 3. What's the #1 thing I can do to make my community more prepared for Peak Oil? Start a business that is likely to survive or thrive in age of expensive energy...
May 08, 2006
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