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Gail in China Report #3
Greetings Finite Worlders! Gail is on her 1 month lecture tour of China. She’s unable to access WordPress from China, but does have access to email, so she’s sending me updates to publish here on OFW. My Byline/About appears at … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications
Tagged China, coal, Daqing Oil Field, oil, Ordos, Petroleum University of China, Prof. Feng, Shale
187 Comments
A Forecast of Our Energy Future; Why Common Solutions Don’t Work
In order to understand what solutions to our energy predicament will or won’t work, it is necessary to understand the true nature of our energy predicament. Most solutions fail because analysts assume that the nature of our energy problem is … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications
Tagged economic growth, energy, energy forecast, fossil fuel, limits to growth, oil
630 Comments
Energy limits: Is there anything we can do?
The energy limit we are running into is a cost limit. I would argue that neither the Republican or Democrat approach to solving the problem will really work. The Republicans favor “Drill Baby Drill”. If the issue is that the … Continue reading
Our Energy Predicament in Charts
A friend asked me to put together a presentation on our energy predicament. I am not certain all of the charts in this post will go into it, but I thought others might be interested in a not-so-difficult version of … Continue reading
Posted in Alternatives to Oil, Financial Implications
Tagged energy, energy predicament, finite world, fossil fuel, oil, oil prices, solar PV, space solar
183 Comments
Why Malthus Got His Forecast Wrong
Most of us have heard that Thomas Malthus made a forecast in 1798 that the world would run short of food. He expected that this would happen because in a world with limited agricultural land, food supply would fail to rise … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications, Food issues
Tagged coal, energy consumption, food supply, Malthus, oil, oil price, peak oil, technology
160 Comments
