EROEI and the Collapse of Empires
The above video is a discussion with Dr. Charles Hall of the Dept. of the SUNY-Environmental and Forest Biology. He is the primary creator behind the concept of EROEI in the field of biophysical...
View ArticleKing Romney’s Double Down Plan On What’s Left of Our Poor EROEI Pockets of...
This post is a sort of addendum to the last post about King Romney’s Energy Plan. Here’s the excerpt of what I said from that post which needs more elaboration: …Overlooking the catastrophic...
View ArticleThe End of Capitalism and the Extinction of Mankind
This will be my last post until after Thanksgiving break. I featured Professor Charles Hall in EROEI and the Collapse of Empires and here he is again with another interesting talk on energy and EROEI...
View ArticleProtesting the Keystone XL Pipeline While Obama Golfs with Oil Executives
Are we going to wage an all-out war on reality while the natural world crumbles beneath our feet? By all available evidence – yes. The corrosive and corrupting effect of capital is working its Voodoo...
View ArticlePeak Oil and Economic Contraction
Below is a new and beautifully done video on peak oil. It’s easy to forget how extensively oil and fossil fuels are woven into every aspect of daily life in 21st Century Industrial Civilization. A fish...
View ArticleDevouring the ‘Seed Corn’ to Maintain the Present
At the end of this post is a paper being worked on by Roger Blanchard Ph.D.[rblanchard@LSSU.edu]. He is a chemistry instructor at Lake Superior State University as well as author of several books,...
View ArticleEnergy Unicorns and Delusional Greenwashing of Industrial Civilization
Clinging to the Status Quo Through my experience on this website I’ve learned that the pro-fossil fuel/climate change skeptics share something in common with the pro-renewable energy/climate change...
View ArticleTechno-Optimism Vs. The Laws of Physics
I was poking through my email looking for a reference article on China’s plundering of the oceans when I came across some comments made recently over at Scribbler’s site. Now before I get into a...
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