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Showing posts with label energy economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label energy economics. Show all posts
Monday, August 21, 2017

Nafeez Ahmed — Inside the new economic science of capitalism’s slow-burn energy collapse

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Game-changer? INSURGE intelligence - Medium Inside the new economic science of capitalism’s slow-burn energy collapse Nafeez Ahmed
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Jeremy Grantham — The Beginning of the End of the Fossil Fuel Revolution (From Golden Goose to Cooked Goose)

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Good summary of the basics of energy economics, with shout-outs to Hyman Minsky and Kenneth Boulding, and high praise for Jamie Galbraith. ...
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

John Aziz — Get ready for a massive renewable energy boom

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Renewables are projected to be the fastest growing source of energy over the next 30 years. And that's a conservative estimate. The We...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Nafeez Ahmed — Imminent peak oil could burst global economic bubble: study

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A new multi-disciplinary study led by the University of Maryland calls for immediate action by government, private and commercial sectors to...
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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Larry Elliott — Saving the planet from short-term thinking will take ‘man on the moon’ commitment

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Instead of dealing with the global challenges emerging from increasing complexity, the argument is over "affordability" in a fiat...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

Tara Lohan — The Coming Crash: Our Addiction to Endless Growth on a Finite Planet

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Tara Lohan: How did this book project come about? I know it started out as a book about tar sands, but then it evolved into so much more. ...
Sunday, February 10, 2013

Jeff Spross — In Australia, Wind Power Is Already Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels, And Solar Is Right Behind

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According to the latest research from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, electricity from wind power can now be supplied more cheaply in Austral...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Gail Tverberg — Why World Coal Consumption Keeps Rising; What Economists Missed

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What did Economists Miss?   Unfortunately, the list is rather long. Our Finite World Why World Coal Consumption Keeps Rising; What Econo...
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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Jeff Spross — Report: Humanity Has Overshot The Earth’s Biocapacity

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In 2008, the Earth’s total biocapacity was 12.0 billion gha, or 1.8 gha per person, while humanity’s Ecological Footprint was 18.2 billio...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Clonal Antibody — The Decline of American Industry in one maybe two graphs

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UPDATE: This post contains a mistake. See corrected post here . I was intrigued by Art Shipman using an apparent decline in capacity utili...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Chris Cook — Introducing the E-3

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TEHRAN - How many barrels has the Group of Seven (G-7) leading industrialized nations? This neatly sums up the way in which the institution...
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Monday, June 11, 2012

Book review: "Energy and the Wealth of Nations"

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The book is based on the premise that the capture of excess energy supports all the functions of life.... Human civilization began when agr...
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Friday, April 13, 2012

The Solar Envelope: How to Heat and Cool Cities Without Fossil Fuels

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For weekend reading: this is a long but fascinating post about passive solar that is a must read for anyone interested in alternative energ...

Tom Murphy — Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist

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Humorous as well as informative as physicist Tom Murphy proves that unlimited growth indefinitely over time is physically impossible. Rea...
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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Fouling the nest with fracking?

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A former staffer at a state government agency responsible for regulating hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has warned that allowing the co...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Peter Cooper — Will MMT become part of the problem instead of the solution

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If we needed evidence that Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is open to different political viewpoints, it has been forthcoming lately in the bl...