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Peak Energy: the day after - part one
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008. The day after - part one. The financial conflagration gathers strength touched off by the mortgage crisis as a dynamite primer, but exploding on account of unsupportable shady investment practices. Lacking steady dribbles of cash to cover the heavily leveraged, endless trillions of speculative credit/money, the game ends. Various billion dollar bailouts are a drop in the bucket not even addressing mortgages that have already failed. Much less all the tea in Iceland. In recent...
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Peak Energy: the day after - part two
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Thursday, October 09, 2008. The day after - part two. Surveying the wreckage, with martini in hand. Or better yet, a slice of apple pie, one might be inclined to flip out. The crisis demands an industry to engage in on a national scale, a hoover dam, something to turn the focus of the age from money. More on this much more tomorrow. For now, food for thought. Where will one get your consumables, if there is limited supply at the grocery store at the grocery store, or the bread line? Neighbors never moved...
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Peak Energy: The Pied Piper of Ethanol
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Thursday, September 28, 2006. The Pied Piper of Ethanol. Critics of peak oil often sidestep dealing with issues of geology and production, and dive straight in with attacks on the resulting scenarios, as if that might falsify the science and the observations of a century. Thus categorized, they are humiliated and forgettable - in the minds of critics. He shepards a flock of boomers who need the salve and balm of forgiveness for consuming the world - - but not actual change. Oh no. This problem, if it is ...
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Peak Energy: paint it black
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Sunday, June 13, 2010. Alternate Link for below video here. As people drive about in their cars, vroom vroom, they call into talk radio shows to complain about BP. Meanwhile what is leaking into the gulf is oil. BP is irrelevant. To that end, it is stomach churning to listen to Matt Simmons discuss the problem as he thinks it is, rather than as it is described by the White House or the public relations arm of Beyond/British. The Gulf is dying and people care. Posted by JMS @ 2:56 PM. Mammon - a rant.
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Peak Energy: tending weeds and pressing roses
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010. Tending weeds and pressing roses. A few changes, as I ponder uncorking a few new ideas in the near future. Yes, now I think about writing on peak energy rather than actually writing! It doesn't actually save me time of course - the ideas rattle around in my brain, instead of yours, where they belong. Long time no see. Makes one wonder. Peak Oil Debunked,. To be used to acquire natural gas? Let me tell you friend, supplies are BOOMING! Posted by JMS @ 1:22 AM. Mammon - a rant.
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Peak Energy: Las Vegas in winter
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Thursday, July 10, 2008. Las Vegas in winter. Down and out in Las Vegas. With Americans cutting back on luxuries, and the price of transport rocketing, the so-called "Vegas vacation" is facing the axe. This week, as the nation celebrated Independence Day, major hotels were taking stock of a fall in all-important room occupancy rates from their usually impressive 95 per cent levels to nearer 80 per cent. Imagining a herd of robot consumer narcissists when they begin to feel peckish is a nightmare scenario...
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Peak Energy: Seed Corn Economy
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Thursday, December 16, 2004. When times get tough, or winters long, farmers eat the seeds meant to be buried in the spring. Often this is a preface to calamity. Keep a handful of seeds, and you can grow more. We could have done anything with our oil endowment. Benevolent utopia could have flowered. We're the smart ones, right? Standing at the peak, and looking back down the way we came, it becomes apparent that humanity took the callow path of least resistance. Utterly. Buried gold, did you? Right now yo...
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Peak Energy: victory garden of the week - July 14
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Saturday, July 19, 2008. Victory garden of the week - July 14. Making my little piece of the world just a little greener. T)his year, something inside went "click." All those articles about decreasing one's carbon footprint by using locally grown food finally sank in. And what could be more local than the plot of crabgrass right outside the door, which thus far has existed for the sole purpose of being mowed? Couldn't it be put to better use? Posted by JMS @ 10:33 PM. At 5:34 AM, September 27, 2008.
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Peak Energy: thinking backward
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Thursday, February 26, 2009. It is said that as one ages the perception is that one is younger than is in fact the case. This is not really a surprising distortion. Much valuable science is performed around the obvious. By the same token, surely I am living about five years back in a self hallucinated past. By god, I'm enjoying it. Today, scanning the articles at Energy Bulletin. The peak oil crisis: a turning point? The slightly terrifying conclusion I draw is that it will be difficult for the reality b...
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Peak Energy: who's that rappin?
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Oil spill: Gulf of Mexico disaster 'growing by the moment'. The explosion, the sinking, and now the spill from the Transocean Deepwater Horizon oil rig couldn't have come at a worse time for President Obama and other proponents of expanding deepwater oil exploration off the US. Obama Bush Light, half the calories, but sold by the same corporation for the same price. No one said the Transocean Deepwater Horizon was the Titanic. No one said she was unbreakable. Floating l...Some ...
