Monday, November 17, 2008
Dean Kamen, inventor and entrepreneur, has pieced together a hybrid that uses electric battery power for the drive train, and a Stirling engine for heat and defogging. In a pinch, the Stirling engine can also be used to recharge the battery. Read the whole story at UnionLeader.com
And check out this TedTalk from 2002. Kamen [...]
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 Energy, Peak Food, Peak Minerals, 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 Energy, Peak Food, Peak Minerals, 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 Energy, Peak Food, Peak Minerals, 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 Energy, Peak Food, Peak Minerals, phosphorus
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Monday, September 17, 2007
http://blog.longnow.org/2007/09/10/35-year-time-lapse-of-tokyo-skyline/
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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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 [...]
October 7, 2006.
The evaporation of civilization
Hugo Salinas Price
All human societies are being destabilized by the energy that is injected into them. As societies are constituted by human beings, we can clearly observe how the more “developed” a society, the greater the physical and mental activity of its population; the population has [...]
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Very interesting article over on Wired with a diagram that puts our energy consumption in perspective. Wow! Now I understand what Michael is talking about when he says the singularity has already happened and it was cheap oil. And I get a much better idea of the gloom and doom side of oil depletion Robin’s [...]
I have been a math teacher since 1991 when I taught my first algebra class at Philadelphia Community College. I had just received my Bachelors degree in Physics. Bolstered by my girlfriend Val’s seemingly cushy part-time employment as a math instructor, and the fact that the math department was in quick need of an algebra [...]
Wow,
Just to say that B and I were a part of http://www.santamonicacriticalmass.org/ Friday night. I have to tell you it’s really some of the most FUN I’ve had in a LONG time. I mean, I’ve always loved bicycles and that’s a big part of it, but something about 300 of us cruising through the night [...]
