Peak Energy

• thinking backward

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  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 [...]
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  Posted: February 27, 2009, 2:58am EST
  

• such a winters day

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  No, this isn't a post about California, any more than anywhere else. Just a pause for reflection, after four December's of posting on the topic of peak energy - something I understand and mean to be peak usable energy in an industrial sense.
  
  In other words, something which is [...]
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  Posted: January 01, 2009, 12:43am EST
  

• the day after - part three

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  The United States annual 700 hundred billion dollar Military budget has long been a cipher and a certainty. The U.S. manages to fund a space program on 2 percent of that. The dollars are real, and they are glazed over North America proper as evenly as possible to ensure every [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2008, 1:42pm EDT
  

• the day after - part two

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  Surveying the wreckage, with martini in hand, or better yet, a slice of apple pie, one might be inclined to flip out.
  
  A fair response, but it is time to change ones mind. Turn it, twist it, and then re-program. This might involve hitting a television in the [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2008, 1:08am EDT
  

• the day after - part one

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  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 [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2008, 2:00am EDT
  

• victory garden of the week - July 14

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  making my little piece of the world just a little greener (post gazette)
  (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' [...]
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  Posted: July 20, 2008, 1:33am EDT
  

• Las Vegas in winter

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  Down and out in Las Vegas The Independent
  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 [...]
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  Posted: July 11, 2008, 2:51am EDT
  

• victory garden(s) of the week - July 8

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  Growing front-yard food can rile neighbors (ap/cnn)
  Some of the neighbors are less than thrilled. Some municipal codes limit the percentage of a yard that can be planted with anything other than trees and grass.
  "Especially in the first three years, I got a lot of code violations," said [...]
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  Posted: July 08, 2008, 3:28am EDT
  

• a cult of finitism and other futures

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  Back when this blog began, I knew things. I knew them confidently. As time went on, the more I learned, the less I knew. Yet there is a value in knowing something confidently.
  
  You've got something jingling in your pocket right now. The petro dollar. Right now you' [...]
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  Posted: July 07, 2008, 3:21am EDT
  by monkeygrinder

• victory garden of the week - July 1

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  Posted: July 01, 2008, 5:20pm EDT
  

• opec signals heavy sour

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  OPEC signals reluctance to lift oil output (Bloomberg, Reuters)
  The Qatar oil minister Abdullah al-Attiyah said there was no need to raise oil supplies to global markets. "The market doesn't need more oil," he said, pointing to a cut in forecast oil demand growth by the International Energy' [...]
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  Posted: May 20, 2008, 3:47am EDT
  

• another skeletor type

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  Attorney General says mobsters pose new global threat
  Also alarming is growing evidence of what Mukasey described as mobsters infiltrating and corrupting global gas and energy markets — potentially destabilizing parts of the U.S. economy. He cited cases of organized criminals increasingly smuggling immigrants and contraband — such as [...]
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  Posted: April 24, 2008, 3:00am EDT
  

• buttered regrets

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  Japan's hunger becomes a dire warning for other nations
  Japan's acute butter shortage, which has confounded bakeries, restaurants and now families across the country, is the latest unforeseen result of the global agricultural commodities crisis.
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  While soaring food prices have triggered rioting among the starving millions of the [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2008, 3:11am EDT
  

• the economist

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  Ok, so I've got to borrow a story from Big Gav because it is so grand. I've got a few essays of my own chillin' on ice, and there they will stay for a few more days while I attempt to intersect time and effort.
  
  
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  Posted: April 11, 2008, 2:52am EDT
  

• a horse and some pepper would be nice

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  James Kunstler’s new novel “World Made By Hand” is an excellent, brisk read which I recommend. This novel, along with the nonfiction “… Geography of Nowhere” are two essential works by the author. The novel certainly may be safely passed along to a reader who normally lacks interest [...]
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  Posted: March 23, 2008, 4:49am EDT
  

• tell yourself what to do

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  Posted: March 19, 2008, 2:18am EDT
  by monkeygrinder

• coming soon, a bit more words

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  I haven't had much to say lately, haven't felt like it was necessary. The sources of information on peak energy are varied and broad.
  
  But listen, the globe has been in an age of cheap energy abundance for a century or so, and this [...]
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  Posted: March 17, 2008, 5:05am EDT
  

• heyoka

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  Heyoka are thought of as being backwards-forwards, upside-down, or contrarian in nature. This spirit is often manifest by doing things backwards or unconventionally--riding a horse backwards, wearing clothes inside-out, or speaking in a backwards language. For example, if food were scarce, a Heyoka would sit around and complain about [...]
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  Posted: December 29, 2007, 4:38pm EST
  

• burning man with oil

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  Every year, I don't go to burning man, which is sad, because the year I did go I had a blast, rednecks in helicopters aside.
  
  It could be compared to summer vacation as experienced by a child. Every day, wake up and do whatever, all day. Anyways, I' [...]
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  Posted: September 25, 2007, 11:38pm EDT
  

• the high cost of fuel is change

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  Democracy Icon Aung San Suu Kyi Greets Myanmar Monks
  As the rain poured down, Aung San Suu Kyi walked out with two other women and cried as she paid her respects to the monks, the witnesses said.
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  The witnesses said Aung San Suu Kyi did not appear to [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2007, 3:15am EDT
  

• coming to a store near you

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  (c) reuters via [www.telegraph.co.uk] [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2007, 3:08am EDT
  

• noodles of yesteryear

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  Italians set to boycott pasta as the price of wheat reaches record highs
  Italy's leading flour maker, Grandi Molini Italiani, and pasta and poultry producers are planning further price increases, shocking Italians, said to choose pasta over sex. [...] The green trend for bio-fuels is also blamed for boosting' [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2007, 1:52am EDT
  

• the surge

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  Oil breaks 80 dollars on supply, storm fears
  Crude oil prices burst into record territory Wednesday as New York futures topped 80 dollars a barrel, with traders fretting over a big drop in US reserves and a new tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico.
  The contract for light, [...]
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  Posted: September 13, 2007, 3:04am EDT
  

• summertime

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  I need to take a week or two off
  - as if I hadn't been already -
  and recharge.
  
  
  
  
  Image Sourced Chaotic Soul' [...]
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  Posted: August 02, 2007, 3:08am EDT
  

• China

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  Posted: July 26, 2007, 3:40am EDT
  

• Texas

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  Posted: July 25, 2007, 3:22am EDT
  

• United Kingdom

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  Posted: July 24, 2007, 1:17am EDT
  

• The Rubber Clown Suit of Positivity

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  I call that depression and anger the Suffocating Rubber Clown Suit of Negativity. It's suffocating, and that rubber stinks. But once you start meditating and diving within, the clown suit starts to dissolve. You finally realize how putrid was the stink when it starts to go. Then, when it [...]

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  Posted: July 18, 2007, 3:04am EDT
  

• Biodiesel For The Revolution

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  Posted: July 12, 2007, 4:45am EDT
  

• I came out here to be alone

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  An ugly battle over clean power
  
  (Sandy) Sandall says he doesn't oppose wind power. He gets his electricity from solar panels and from his own relatively tiny wind turbine mounted on a 50-foot pole. But rows of white massive white poles, topped with blinking [...]
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  Posted: June 27, 2007, 1:46am EDT
  

• free as a bucket of gas

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  Posted: June 12, 2007, 3:32am EDT
  

• energy porn

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  Posted: June 02, 2007, 11:23pm EDT
  

• a whole world out of view

  Deforestation: The Hidden Cause of Global Warming
  The rampant slashing and burning of tropical forests is second only to the energy sector as a source of greenhouses gases according to report published today by the Oxford-based Global Canopy Programme, an alliance of leading rainforest scientists.
  Figures from the GCP, [...]
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  Posted: May 18, 2007, 2:52am EDT
  

• kansas

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  Posted: May 16, 2007, 3:42am EDT
  

• florida

  
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  Posted: May 13, 2007, 5:04am EDT
  

• - and he built a carbon house -

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  Considering trees as feedstock for liquid fuel is an excellent thought clarifier. Many people who would happily burn a stalk of corn to or two in order to roll their monkey wagon a few centimeters down the road are not so sanguine when trees are considered for the same [...]
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  Posted: May 08, 2007, 2:52am EDT
  

• carbon trading is weak medicine

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  Posted: April 30, 2007, 3:10am EDT
  

• trees, not just for firewood anymore

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  Project looks at trees for biofuel
  Forest-product companies have gotten pretty good over the years at squeezing as much lumber, paper pulp and chemicals out of their trees as they can. Now they're hoping to squeeze one more useful product out of the trees and the lands they're grown [...]
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  Posted: April 19, 2007, 2:01am EDT
  

• burning turkey feces (reprint)

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  A while back I covered Changing World Technologies - wherein I idly speculated that claims on their web page may have been overstated a squidge.
  
  Well, the plot has thickened, and now smells.
  
  Innovative turkey-to-oil plant eats money, spits out fowl odor
  (A) revolutionary plant is [...]
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  Posted: April 16, 2007, 12:28am EDT
  

• get out while the getting is good

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  "The bad news is that the Martians have landed in New York City, and are staying at the Waldorf. The good news is that they only eat homeless men, women and children of all colors, and they pee gasoline."
  
  Kurt Vonnegut [...]
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  Posted: April 12, 2007, 2:18am EDT
  

• more is better

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  The Shock Model: A Review (Part I)
  WebHubbleTelescope, a long time TOD poster, has been one of the most active in the blogosphere in the area of oil production modeling. He has advocated a more physically based approach instead of a heuristic curve fitting approach such as the [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2007, 2:54am EDT
  

• give peace a chance

  
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  Posted: April 06, 2007, 2:59am EDT
  

• monsanto brand ethanol

  Why Monsanto loves ethanol - Salon - wait for ad
  For some time, How the World Works has been convinced that the rush to biofuels will significantly boost the ongoing rollout of genetically modified organisms. There's just too much money at stake in the energy business for it to [...]
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  Posted: March 29, 2007, 4:21am EDT