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Robert Zubrin calls for challenging OPEC looting!

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 [...]

Intensive crop culture for high population is unsustainable by Peter Salonius

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 [...]

Haber-Bosch process has often been called the most important invention of the 20th century

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 [...]

Jonathan Ott on Free/Cheap/Peak fossil fuels/minerals update/comments

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 [...]

What resources are not Peaking? Now it’s Phosphorus! Way important!

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 [...]