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Bee keeping, worm farming, etc. It's all the rage, ah yeeaaaaaaa
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No, nuclear power is only suitable for specific applicatio
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The prospect of accelerati
Those 800 fields produce 2/3rds of the world supply. We need 4 Saudi Arabias by 2030. That's a new SA evey 5 years!
National Geographic said it's equal "finding a new Kuwait's worth of output every year": http://ngm
However, if you want to meet increasing demand from developing countries (China & India) the IEA believes the equivalent of 6 new Saudi Arabias need to come online between now and 2030. That's a new Saudi Arabia being needed every 3.5 years.
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U.S. JOINT OPERATING ENVIRONMEN
“A severe energy crunch is inevitable without a massive expansion of production and refining capacity. While it is difficult to predict precisely what economic, political, and strategic effects such a shortfall might produce, it surely would reduce the prospects for growth in both the developing and developed worlds. Such an economic slowdown would exacerbate other unresolved tensions, push fragile and failing states further down the path toward collapse, and perhaps have serious economic impact on both China and India. At best, it would lead to periods of harsh economic adjustment
A 10 m/bbl per day shortfall? Did you know the US reqires 9.5 m/bbl per day for gasoline? A shortfall of that volume is like having every gas station in the US going dry....by 2015. Imagine vacant roads everywhere in the US.
Climate change: If CO2 stays in the atmospher 50-200 years (as climatolog
Oil production has peaked and as production goes into decline the cost of everything rises (many goods become scarce), road maintance cost puts pessure on cities, counties, and states to up taxes to pay for road maintance.
"It's going to get ugly."
You are most probably correct. But I doubt that it'll take anywhere like 25-30 years to get on track to the future. The ugliness will be apparent in a very few years and we will be officially at war with our no longer cheap oil, consumptiv
I'm of the opinion that our president was trying to wait for his second term to tell us about all this, but perhaps this event will force his hand even if it means one term. It's nearly impossible for a politician to survive bad news to the public without a catastroph
BTW, a conceptual mentor of mine for several years on all things peak has recently joined HuffPo bloggers, Chris Nelder. Check out his first post:
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Yet the optimist in me has some hope that something good will come of this. I just don't know what that might be right now.
Revolution
See Moving Beyond Oil and The Brooklyn Project at; http://www
One example of new science, a barrel of ordinary water is expected to replace 200 barrels of oil. A gallon or two might power a future hybrid-ele
As an example, successful research at a National laboratory 30 years ago led to a modified engine that achieved 70% efficiency
Later, vehicles powered by water fueled cells might go even farther on a gallon.
In parallel, magnetic generators and room temperatur
The latter have been the subject of four completed government contracts. Almost 1,000 samples were made by another firm for the Air Force.
24/7 developmen
These electric cars and trucks will become power plants when suitably parked and may eventually pay for themselves by selling electricit
They will replace the need to build new coal and nuclear plants. This country can supersede fossil fuels faster than might be imagined!
What it will require is an appropriat
Imagine the impact on the automotive industry and the economy. It will spawn well paying jobs!
Magnetic generators are not heat engines.
An interestin
Maxwell's Pressure Demon and the Second Law of Thermodyna
By John Marshall Dudley
Summary
Theory predicts that it should be possible to violate the second law of thermodyna
Other sources of the power, such as electroche
See also:
Advances in Physics The Fluctuatio
By, Denis J. Evans and Debra J. Searles
Realizatio
arxiv.org/
New science is bound to rock a few boats...
Water used in fractional Hydrogen systems is a tiny fraction of that required in nuclear plants or almost any manufactur
See the website for BlackLight power to pursue the science.
We disagree with their analysis, but completely agree on the small amounts of water required.
The gusher in the Gulf may have the potential to trigger a Global Warming tipping point, a cataclysm far more catastroph
An oceanograp
A scientist has written “…The consequenc
See Life Threatenin
Kevin Costner has been supporting developmen
Here are links to short videos that illustrate a little known way to dramatical
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Methane in the arctic may conceivabl
Alternativ
get in the way of "making good bucks". I foresee a long, wasting war waged by the petrocarbo
was "beyond petroleum" only to find out, like the birds struggling to rid themselves of oil-slicke
We have the need to change and global telecommun
Hopefully we can form a core between us to form a global 'social nervous system' producing infinite positive energy. :-)
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It's gonna take all of us doing what we can to even make a dent in our profligacy
Keep on truckin'.
Whatever a writer designates as the catalyst of "the decline of the oil age", this decline is something the must, and will happen.
Everyone except hardcore cornucopia
The real question is when it will happen, and what are the consequenc
Oil needs to be treated as the rare substance it really is. We can move towards alternativ
As you said:
"The change in direction will ultimately be driven by a forced change in our collective value system. The end of oil-depend
Without your follow-up of happy talk, this conclusion should be embraced and taken to heart by all.
1. move money out of 401K plans and other investment packages that invest money your for you, invisibly, into anything deemed profitable
2. begin to simply use less of all resources. western civilizati
3. join community groups aimed to assist with the transition to more sustainabl
my article spaceship earth: navigators wanted explores these ideas further.
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