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oil1859: November 2011
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Thursday, November 10, 2011. Eurozone = Toast, Economists puzzled. I listen a lot to NPR and BBB World Service. Of course I hear over and over about the debt crisis in Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, etc. I keep hearing about hopes for fixing financial houses and "returning to growth". With increasingly expensive petroleum, that seems unlikely. Gail Tverberg's overview. Ecological economist David Stern sheds light on my conundrum. He explains that when energy, i.e. oil, became very cheap in...This real...
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oil1859: July 2013
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013. The Real (This) American Life; The Casa Grande. In mid-May, my wife and I were driving across the deserts of central Arizona to deliver some photos to an exhibit in Gilbert of all places. We listened to Hot in my Backyard. Ira and Co.,. At Casa Grande National Monument. Saturday, July 27, 2013. Irrational Exuberance- Fracking Frenzy. And many reasonable people are concerned about the long-term environmental effects. Where new wells must be drilled at a furious rate to attempt to ...
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oil1859: Irrational Exuberance--Fracking Frenzy
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Saturday, July 27, 2013. Irrational Exuberance- Fracking Frenzy. It's pretty interesting that Mitchell became quite interested in sustainable living and created a foundation for that purpose. Hydraulic fracturing, "fracking", is an inherently unsustainable production method for gas and oil. A frack well is expensive to drill and has a miserable production curve. And many reasonable people are concerned about the long-term environmental effects. Combined with declining production of conventional sources, ...
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oil1859: May 2012
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Monday, May 7, 2012. Plug-in airplane, only $495,000. I was wrong. I've been telling people it isn't practical to build an electric airplane. Well not only is it practical, you can actually buy one right now. Popular Science has an article on the Volta Volare GT4. The GT4 uses an electric motor to spin its propeller. URL from the Pop Sci article). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The companion website, Oil1859 (Petroleocene)- Go here to understand hydrocarbons. Plug-in airplane, only $495,000.
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Oil1859 – The Petroleocene
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The Age of Petroleum. The End of Infinity. We Change Our World by Existing. My original petroleum website was “oil1859.org” on Google Sites. For the moment, it’s still up. I combined it with a Blogger blog, oil1859.blogger.com. I’m building a site the discusses human nutrition. What people eat affects everything in the world, and Petreolocene.org is designed to be my bigger “worldview” site, with an oil1859 subset. That subset is going here.
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oil1859: Getting Nowhere and Missing the Train
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Monday, September 6, 2010. Getting Nowhere and Missing the Train. We spend a lot of our time in U.S. National Parks. In fact, just this morning I did a 5 mile run in one a few minutes from my house. Our vacations tend to center around trips to national parks. I've lost count of the number of times I've been to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The junction of South Kaibab, N. Kaibab and Bright Angel trails. I've been on all, many times. Our first and most famous park is Yellowstone. That has burned a path.
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oil1859: December 2010
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Friday, December 3, 2010. Fossil Fuels, Strange Arithmetic. Im a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Ive been disappointed by AAASs silence on the issues of hydrocarbon decline. In one of the email bulletins they send out, they had a link to a panel discussion on energy. 160; Here are the opening two paragraphs-. This is an extraordinarily ill-thought out set of statements. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Fossil Fuels, Strange Arithmetic. View my complete profile.
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oil1859: November 2012
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Thursday, November 1, 2012. Canadian economist Jeff Rubin's second book has been published in the U.S. with the title "The Big Flatline: Oil and the No-Growth Economy". It came out in the spring of 2012 in Canada titled "The End of Growth". It's available on Amazon both in print. And on the Kindle. That book explains why we're running out of cheap "conventional" oil. That's the kind of oil where you drill a simple hole and oil wants to come out. Get a copy of Jeff Rubin's book. It's pretty readable a...
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oil1859: The Big Flatline
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Thursday, November 1, 2012. Canadian economist Jeff Rubin's second book has been published in the U.S. with the title "The Big Flatline: Oil and the No-Growth Economy". It came out in the spring of 2012 in Canada titled "The End of Growth". It's available on Amazon both in print. And on the Kindle. That book explains why we're running out of cheap "conventional" oil. That's the kind of oil where you drill a simple hole and oil wants to come out. Get a copy of Jeff Rubin's book. It's pretty readable a...
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oil1859: August 2011
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Saturday, August 13, 2011. Long time, no post, I know. I had other concerns. Presumably you've noticed we might be on the verge of another recession? Notice too that economists and financial folks want to cast the situation in terms they think they understand? But perhaps there's another factor that should be considered. In the Peak OIl Task Force's analysis in their 2010 report ( http:/ peakoiltaskforce.net/. It occurs to me this is like what happened in my core fields of science when I was in college i...
