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Today’s Energy Crisis Is Very Different from the Energy Crisis of 2005

Posted on November 17, 2022 by Gail Tverberg

Back in 2005, the world economy was “humming along.” World growth in energy consumption per capita was rising at 2.3% per year in the 2001 to 2005 period. China had been added to the World Trade Organization in December 2001, … Continue reading →

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Will China Bring an Energy-Debt Crisis?

Posted on November 8, 2017 by Gail Tverberg

It is easy for those of us in the West to overlook how important China has become to the world economy, and also the limits it is reaching. The two big areas in which China seems to be reaching limits … Continue reading →

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2017: The Year When the World Economy Starts Coming Apart

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Gail Tverberg

Some people would argue that 2016 was the year that the world economy started to come apart, with the passage of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. Whether or not the “coming apart” process started in 2016, in my … Continue reading →

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Energy limits: Why we see rising wealth disparity and low prices

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Gail Tverberg

Last week, I gave a fairly wide-ranging presentation at the 2016 Biophysical Economics Conference called Complexity: The Connection Between Fossil Fuel EROI, Human Energy EROI, and Debt (pdf). In this post, I discuss the portion of the talk that explains several … Continue reading →

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China: Is peak coal part of its problem?

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Gail Tverberg

The world’s coal resources are clearly huge. How could China, or the world in total, reach peak coal in a timeframe that makes a difference? If we look at China’s coal production and consumption in BP’s 2016 Statistical Review of World … Continue reading →

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