Tuesday, February 10, 2009
According to Saul’s calculations, in order to reach a goal of 450 ppm of atmospheric carbon dioxide in time to limit a global rise in temperature to 2 degrees C., we’ll have to reduce the amount of burned fossil fuels to 3 terawatts (of power). That means we’ll need to replace 11.5 terawatts with new [...]
very cool online database
A databrowser for exploring:
Where are oil & gas produced?
Where are oil & gas consumed?
How has this changed?
http://mazamascience.com/OilExport/index.html
http://mazamascience.com/OilExport/index.html
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Mind Blowing interview with Robert Zubrin on CoastToCoastAm with George Noorey….really worth buying a copy of the audio! Zubrin points out that the move of Oil prices from $10 to $120 per barrel of oil is 1200% ! , Dudes! This is a Bush/Cheney/Republican TAX HIKE! Duh! This is the third person in [...]
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Also tagged Ammonia, Black Swan, Gamer Theory, offGrid, Oil Price Hyper Inflation, Peak Food, Peak Minerals, peak oil, Peak Water, phosphorus, Robert Zubrin, Society of Spectacle, Tax Hikes, treason, u.s. out of Iraq
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How much Virtual Water is in your shirt?
Virtual Water is a measure of all the water it takes to make the products you use. Waterfootprint.orgcalculates that a new cotton shirt uses 2,700 liters. That’s a tally of the water evaporated in irrigating and growing the cotton, and the water needed to wash away the fertilizers and [...]
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Also tagged artificial fertilizer, Economics, future, Gaia, inflation, National Security State, Open Source culture, Peak Food, Peak Minerals, peak oil, Peak Water, politics, six degrees, social networks
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Monday, February 11, 2008
from Culture Change.org
Intensive crop culture for high population is unsustainable
Written by Peter Salonius
Editor’s note: The following essay by soil scientist Peter Salonius is Part One of his two-part series for Culture Change that bursts the delusion of agriculture’s providing for a large human population long-term. If after reading it [...]
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Also tagged agriculture, Ammonia, artificial fertilizer, Economics, Gaia, offGrid, Open Source culture, Peak Food, Peak Minerals, peak oil, phosphorus, politics, Practical Nomad, solar
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Saturday, October 13, 2007
this ties in with the earlier post on Peak Phosphorus
from Juergen Schmidhuber’s site
Since age 15 or so Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber’s main scientific ambition has been to build an optimal scientist, then retire. In 2028 they will force him to retire anyway. By then he shall be able to buy hardware providing [...]
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Also tagged Ammonia, artificial fertilizer, awareness expansion, Ecodelics, future, Gaia, Haber-Bosch, math, media ecology, Peak Food, Peak Minerals, peak oil, phosphorus
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Monday, September 17, 2007
http://blog.longnow.org/2007/09/10/35-year-time-lapse-of-tokyo-skyline/
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
from
Erowid Conference Report: Mind States Costa Rica by Lux, Erowid Staff Writer
v1 – Jul 18, 2007
sample from Jon Ott-
“The End of the Treasure in the Basement”, by Jonathan Ott
Jonathan described himself as “not a prophet”, but someone who has been interested in the question of energy and the petroleum-based political and economic infrastructure of the [...]
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Also tagged awareness expansion, beat, bicycles, Ecodelics, Economics, Erowid, fun, future, Jonathan Ott, kurzweil, mind manifesting, Mind States, offGrid, open source religion, Peak Minerals, peak oil, phosphorus, Psyche de Luxe, solar
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From the Oil Drum site
Peak Phosphorus
Posted by Prof. Goose on August 17, 2007 – 10:00am
Topic: Alternative energy
Tags: agriculture, depletion, hubbert linearization, phosphorus, recycling
This is a guest post by Patrick Déry and Bart Anderson. Patrick Déry is a physicist, energy, agriculture and environment analyst and consultant in Quebec, Canada. Bart Anderson is [...]
