Archive for the 'Economics' Category
Closing the circle
The project of a "green wizardry" based on 70s-era appropriate tech requires a clear understanding of matter as well as energy. With the help of dog slobber, nuclear waste, and several other unmentionable substances, the Archdruid explains.
Comments are off for this postThe Bloom Box: An Energy Breakthrough?
Fuel cell company Bloom Energy made quite a stir over the weekend, with a spot on the CBS "Sixty Minutes" TV program in the United States (The Bloom Box: An Energy Breakthrough? - see the link for the video and transcript).
Job Losses Push Need for Energy Bill
Millions of job losses are pushing the U.S. Senate to consider a Jobs and Energy bill, even though Cap and Trade appears to be on life support. What are Five Key Measures that must be in a new Bill to avoid being a "half-ass..d" effort? (term from Sen. Lindsey Graham descrbing limited climate bill)
Comments are off for this postThrowing our energy at impossible dreams…
"as mankind proceeded to get bigger and bigger we silently crossed a threshold"
Comments are off for this postPeak Oil: The Eventual End of the Oil Age
We cannot be lulled into a false sense of security: though oil prices have declined from their historic highs, there is little doubt that peak oil is real. I devoted my Master's project to researching peak oil and found strong evidence in support of the theory. Please feel free to circulate this academic document as a primer on peak oil.
Comments are off for this postResources and anthropocentrism
Evolution demands short-term thinking focused on individual survival. Most attempts to overcome our evolutionarily hardwired absorption with self are selected against. The Overman is dead, killed by a high-fat diet and unwillingness to exercise. Reflexively, we follow him into the grave.
Comments are off for this postODAC Newsletter - Sept 18
This week saw further oil discoveries in the Santos Basin and off the coast of Ghana, extending a run of sizeable finds in recent weeks. Following much breathless reporting of such discoveries, it was good to them put into context by solid analysis from Morgan Stanley and Bank Macquarie...
Dysfunction - August 12
Mad cows (and livid lambs)
China and India: heartlands of global protest
Outside U.S., credit cards tighten grip
Local scientist splits water, saves world, gets on TV
Transport - August 4
The problem with walk score, the possibilities of carbon goggles
Automakers race time as their cash runs low
Addiction: A million little miles per gallon
Consumer auto expert Reed: ‘panic in boardrooms’ of GM, Ford as it becomes clear electric cars ‘really coming’
United States - Mar 5
Bush: America must 'get off oil'
Bartlett pounces on hydrogen claims
William F. Buckley on $100 oil