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Hudson Luce added an article on May 25, 2014
Solar Roadways Are Not A Solution
Solar Roadways Are Not A Solution
Solar roadways are being touted as an answer to energy shortages - enough energy generated by the roadway itself, and, voila, car culture can continue. But trucks and cars for intercity - and intracity - transport should be regarded as...
Hudson Luce added an article on May 25, 2014
Russia, Ukraine, China, the United States, Globalization, and Peak Oil
Russia, Ukraine, China, the United States, Globalization, and Peak Oil
"Russia needs higher prices so that its oil extraction industry can meet its skyrocketing costs. Putin, like the rest of us, has reached the neck-line of the Triangle of Doom, the pointy-end of the gangplank where there is negligible...
Hudson Luce added an article on May 25, 2014
The Real Consequences of Population Overshoot
The Real Consequences of Population Overshoot
There have been hundreds of books and essays written on the evolution of Homo sapiens and I assume you are familiar with that history. In this short essay I am going to point out a few things that are usually left out of that story, the...
Hudson Luce added an article on May 24, 2014
Fracking Causes Great Environmental Damage for Little Long-Lasting Benefit
Fracking Causes Great Environmental Damage for Little Long-Lasting Benefit
"The U.S. is a mature exploration and development province for oil and gas. New technologies of large scale, multistage, hydraulic fracturing of horizontal wells have allowed previously inaccessible shale gas and tight oil to reverse...
Hudson Luce added an article on May 24, 2014
Pause in Global Warming May Be Caused by Long Term Changes in the Pacific Ocean
Pause in Global Warming May Be Caused by Long Term Changes in the Pacific Ocean
Dr. Kevin Trenberth illuminates the mechanics of ocean heat, and the coming El Nino event, and makes a bold prediction.
Hudson Luce added an article on May 24, 2014
Laughing All the Way to the Cliff
Laughing All the Way to the Cliff
"I know I’m showing my age now.  And feeling all nostalgic about the good old days when petrol cost fifty cents a gallon, when the Club of Rome had only just published its Limits to Growth Report, and everyone just decided to ignore it...
Hudson Luce added an article on May 24, 2014
Better Go to the South Pacific Islands While You Still Can
Better Go to the South Pacific Islands While You Still Can
"This is not good news for humanity. As the ice sheets melt due to global warming, not only do they raise the sea level directly; they also exert a weaker gravitational pull on the surrounding ocean. So water sloshes back toward the...
Hudson Luce added an article on May 23, 2014
Usage of "Conspiracy Theorist" as Ad Hominem Attack
Usage of "Conspiracy Theorist" as Ad Hominem Attack
"I like to call it a dysphemism. A dysphemism is a euphemism for something else that has a negative connotation. And it is beautiful. It is one of the best propaganda terms ever invented because the second you say, ‘Yeah, I don’t know...
Hudson Luce added an article on May 22, 2014
Oil Companies Wildly Overestimate Amounts of Recoverable Shale Oil
Oil Companies Wildly Overestimate Amounts of Recoverable Shale Oil
The current US oil boom, from hydraulic fracturing of permeable shale formations, may soon be over, while the accompanying environmental damage will be around for years to come: "
Hudson Luce added an article on May 22, 2014
70% of US Shale Oil Reserves Disappear in Flash of Smoke
70% of US Shale Oil Reserves Disappear in Flash of Smoke
70% of the US shale oil "reserves" are, or were, located in the Monterey Formation in California... but it looks like someone got a bit overoptimistic in their estimates: "Federal energy authorities have slashed by 96% the estimated...