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Peak energy, peak oil, and the rise of renewables

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Global energy demand is headed toward a plateau over the next ten to 20 years, as the world focuses on electrification, energy efficiency, and more service-driven economic growth.
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96 Comments on "Peak energy, peak oil, and the rise of renewables"

  1. Cloggie on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 3:10 pm 

    Collapse will be on another day.

    Tourism record in Germany and many places elsewhere.

    https://www.deutschland.de/en/news/tourism-in-germany-is-booming

  2. JuanP on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 3:14 pm 

    Boring

  3. Gaia on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 3:48 pm 

    There are other environmental problems besides climate change: fracking, deforestation, plastic pollution, unsustainable agriculture, colony collapse disorder (the bees are dying off in large numbers), and the list is endless.

  4. Cloggie on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 3:58 pm 

    Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES)

    https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2019/08/08/liquid-air-energy-storage-laes/

  5. JuanP on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 4:01 pm 

    Gaia is a bot

  6. Gaia on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 4:01 pm 

    Processed food is another problem. It is full of preservatives (chemicals that cause cancer). Those meat-less foods aren’t environmentally friendly. They are full of toxic chemicals.

  7. Gaia on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 4:02 pm 

    JuanP is a troll

  8. Rick on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 4:04 pm 

    Mother Nature is angry at us for ruining our planet- our only home.

  9. Rick on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 4:44 pm 

    Renewables won’t last that long. We are still overconsuming far too many non-renewable resources (oil, coal, gas etc.) which creates a lot of waste. Instead of creating more waste, what if we use waste-to-energy (examples: incineration, landfill-gas-utilization, anaerobic digestion etc.) to allow electricity to be produced?

  10. More Insane Davy ID Theft on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 4:57 pm 

    JuanP on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 3:14 pm

    JuanP on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 4:01 pm

  11. claes on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 4:58 pm 

    The solution is pretty easy: Make an outer space EMP-attack on every major city.
    You could talk a lot pro and con, but it would actually solve the worlds problems in a hurry.

  12. Rick on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 5:04 pm 

    Claes, are you serious?

  13. JuanP sock fraud on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 5:30 pm 

    Rick on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 5:04 pm

  14. JuanP identity fraud on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 5:30 pm 

    JuanP on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 3:14 pm

    JuanP on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 4:01 pm

  15. The Real Davy on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 5:35 pm 

    “Tightening Nickel Supply Threatens Electric Vehicle Boom”
    https://tinyurl.com/yyw49n3h safe haven

    “The study predicts that EV makers will be driving demand for nickel about 16 times to 1.8 million tons in the next years. Class-one nickel, a high-purity material used in batteries, is expected to see demand greatly outstrip supply in the next few years. That will be fueled by meeting the large Chinese EV market, and other global markets where demand is expected to grow. That need for class-one nickel will outstrip supply within five years, according to the study.”

  16. The Real Davy on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 5:38 pm 

    This juanpee shit is getting out of control. Moderators please ban the troll or introduce password protected nicknames. I have been working all day on the farm and now I see he has plastered the board with his idiocy. JuanP go fuck yourself.

  17. claes on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 5:42 pm 

    Oh yes Rick, It’s not the rural life that’s destroing our biosphere. It’s the big city life that are the culprits.
    The EMP-attack will come any way as that is how the next world war will begin.
    Paralysing the opponents electrical systems will have first priority.
    And by the way, I do find huge cities being a bad expression of mankinds culture.
    And I DO think we are too many on this planet.

  18. makati1 on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 5:46 pm 

    claes, your solution is correct. Better an EMP than a nuke. Few killed, but it would force a major change in everything.

    I just saw a pic of the area between Washington DC and Boston that contains ~20% of the US population. (~65,000,000 tax slaves) An EMP over NYC would end BAU in the US. Go for it!

  19. claes on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 5:53 pm 

    Rick, lets hear your point of view about huge cities and their role in world pollution related to a more rural life.

  20. Davy on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 6:09 pm 

    Oops, sorry everyone. Wrong link again.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-08/tightening-nickel-supply-threatens-electric-vehicle-boom

  21. JuanP on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 6:21 pm 

    Davy, I am not intelligent enough to go to the original article so I post the zero hedge link. Remember I have a GED education.

  22. Gaia on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 6:22 pm 

    Juan, get help, you are a rabid lunatic that needs therepy

  23. More Davy ID Theft on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 6:23 pm 

    JuanP on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 6:21 pm

  24. More Davy ID Theft on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 6:27 pm 

    Gaia on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 6:22 pm

  25. lunatic juanpee being insane on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 6:34 pm 

    More Davy ID Theft said Gaia on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 6:22 pm
    More Davy ID Theft said JuanP on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 6:21 pm

  26. Gaia on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 6:36 pm 

    Juan, go back to your failed south america where a failure like you belongs

  27. Davy Sock Fraud on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 6:37 pm 

    lunatic juanpee being insane on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 6:34 pm

  28. More Davy ID Theft on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 6:38 pm 

    Gaia on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 6:36 pm

  29. JuanP on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 7:07 pm 

    Nine Examples Of MSM Exploiting Mass Shootings To Spread Anti-Trump Propaganda
    Following a spate of deadly mass shootings across the country, MSM pundits wasted no time trying to capitalize on the bloodshed to promote their anti-Trump agenda. The partisan pandering was so overt that the Trump War Room – the Twitter account of Trump’s 2020 campaign – had no trouble assembling nine examples of the ‘fake news media using a time of healing to deepen our nation’s divisions.’ To put it another way; here’s how the MSM is using bullshit to shape narratives. 2. MNBC’s Brian Williams boosted a bizarre conspiracy theory about President Trump nodding to white supremacists by ordering American flags lowered to half-staff in honor of the tragedies’ victims. https://t.co/3u1sL03JPO — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 8, 2019 4. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough supported Julian Castro’s campaign chairman releasing a target list of Trump supporters in Texas and smearing them as racists. https://t.co/6ScTrJQOyX — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 8, 2019 6. MSNBC’s Malcolm Nance claimed “Donald Trump is giving [white supremacists] subliminal orders in their head.” https://t.co/JjzpqlzdZD — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 8, 2019 8. MSNBC’s Chuck Todd cut short a video of Trump speaking in order to invent a difference between prepared and off-the-cuff remarks. https://t.co/C7swjxVoU3 — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 8, 2019 While President Trump denounces racism and hate, urges unity, and meets with the victims of these tragedies, the unhinged media is creating more bitterness and hatred. — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 8, 2019 Perhaps the MSM cooked up the new angles at John Podesta’s house?

  30. More Davy ID Theft on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 7:10 pm 

    JuanP on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 7:07 pm

  31. Rick on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 7:41 pm 

    People should take pride in their community.

  32. Duncan Idaho on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 8:08 pm 

    Falling bear lands on deputy’s car, causing crash, wildfire
    https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Falling-bear-Humboldt-deputy-crash-wildfire-14291357.php
    Then again, it could just be a pig covering a mistake.

  33. DerHundistLos on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 8:10 pm 

    Who would have ever thought this is a potential issue, although now that I think about it, while I have no issue using reusable shopping bags, I don’t recall seeing another man doing the same.

    I’m curious to know what others think abiut this.

    “So that’s how the world’s going to die, is it, because straight men are scared people might think they are gay? According to new research by Penn State University, men may be avoiding environmentally friendly activities because they fear that anyone who catches them recycling or carrying a reusable shopping bag may think they’re seeking romantic trysts with other guys. So when men are scrabbling around in the sun-scorched dirt for food, or swimming their way through Covent Garden, or sheltering their family from Mad Max-style societal breakdown, they can at least comfort themselves that their precious heterosexuality remains intact.”

    Source: The Guardian

  34. Sissyfuss on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 8:14 pm 

    All of our environmental problems will only get worse as we keep adding 80 plus million every year. The cake is baked and soon the planet will join it in the oven.

  35. DerHundistLos on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 8:16 pm 

    If asked to identify one person more than any other destined to suffer the eternal tortures of hell in a pain amplification chamber, it’s DJT.

    This land is your land Wildlife…..

    Trump administration authorizes ‘cyanide bombs’ to kill wild animals

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/08/trump-authorizes-cyanide-bombs-wildlife-services

  36. Sissyfuss on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 8:43 pm 

    Derhund, toxic masculinity is a source to many of humanitys problems. Hiding their sensitivity is reinforced by both nature and nurture. And it seems to be getting more prevalent thanks to the Liar in Chief.

  37. DerHundistLos on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 10:52 pm 

    Siss,

    Greetings and thanks for the reply.

    Toxic masculinity in other words masculine insecurity, but what accounts for this irrational mind-set? Emotional maturity? A decadent society focused on the most trivial aspects of life due to a paucity of masculine challenges?

    Frankly, it never crossed my mind that people may think I’m gay if I show-up at the grocery store with reusable bags. I still don’t get the connection between sexual preference and doing what’s right for the planet. I can’t see how “throwing shit out into the garbage” makes me a more manly man.

    I do agree that the Trump factor is central to this. Maybe we are reaching or we have already just reached the zenith of stupidity before the house of cards come crashing down for the last time.

    If you ask me, we have surpassed or will quickly surpass the final tipping point at which time a great cleansing will wipe humanity 1.0 off the face of the map after having proven ourselves to be hopelessly irredeemable.

  38. DerHundistLos on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 11:04 pm 

    A better form of the above:

    In other words, toxic masculinity equates to masculine insecurity, but what accounts for this irrational mind-set? Emotional immaturity? A decadent society focused on the most trivial aspects of life due to a paucity of masculine challenges?

    Frankly, it never crossed my mind that people may think I’m gay if I show-up at the grocery store with reusable bags. I still don’t get the connection between sexual preference and doing what’s right for the planet. I can’t see how “throwing shit out into the garbage” makes me a more manly man.

    I do agree that the Trump factor is central to this. Maybe we are reaching or we have already just reached the zenith of stupidity thereby resulting in the house of cards crashing down.

    If you ask me, having proven ourselves to be hopelessly irredeemable we have surpassed or will soon surpass the final tipping point at which time a great cleansing will wipe humanity 1.0 off the face of the map for good.

    A proximate cause for much of the insanity we see today is occurring as a result of the anxiety nearly all people feel. Even the ultimate denialists know in their heart of hearts something big and bad is soon to come.

  39. makati1 on Thu, 8th Aug 2019 11:19 pm 

    “A proximate cause for much of the insanity we see today is occurring as a result of the anxiety nearly all people feel. Even the ultimate denialists know in their heart of hearts something big and bad is soon to come.”

    Are you speaking about the US or everyone, Der? If everyone, I have to disagree. Such “insanity” is not obvious in the Philippines. I doubt that is is prevalent anywhere but in the debt filled West, especially the US.

    Yes, we are at the end of the age of cheap plentiful energy and other resources. Many are seeing their future as declining and not moving forward and cannot handle the inconsistency of what they are told and what their eyes see. Too late for them.

    Big and bad will be more likely yuge and terrible. Are you preparing for that event? I think it is not far in the future.

  40. Davy on Fri, 9th Aug 2019 5:22 am 

    “toxic masculinity is a source to many of humanitys problems.”

    Yea, I agree, but the problem is now being made worse by the whole liberal gag me politics of toxic feminism, excessive concern for gay/trans, and multicult. I am not a racist but this idea we see where cross cultural experiences are enforced is bullshit. You can’t watch a commercial today without this enforced multicult of mixes races, sexes, and gay expression. Its artificial and enforced. Toxic masculinity probably brought us to this but that does not mean it is right. We are likely going back to the traditional male/female relationship once decline gets going in earnest. We are now in the undulating plateau of decline and growth. We are still rich. Even the poor are rich compared to what is ahead. Look to the 19th century and more of that is likely ahead.

  41. Davy on Fri, 9th Aug 2019 5:24 am 

    I am spending less time on this lame unmoderated forum to concentrate on my own lame blog. I do want to thank all those who have attacked me with giving me material for growth. I have saved the best of my lame comments for my new lame blog. I have years worth of my own lame material.

  42. Davy on Fri, 9th Aug 2019 5:44 am 

    “China “Faces The Worst Of Both Worlds” As PPI Deflation Arrives While Food Inflation Soars”
    https://tinyurl.com/y3z7khrt zero hedge

    “As if China did not have its hands full with a trade war, a plunging yuan and growing civil unrest in Hong Kong, which is fast becoming the potential epicenter for the next global crisis (and which Steve “The Big Short” Eisman thinks is the next black swan), it now also has deflation to worry about at a time when its ability to boost liquidity in the system is severely limited… or maybe it’s soaring inflation China should be concerned about…This, as Bloomberg’s Kyoungwha Kim writes, is “an ominous sign for equities because it underscores the difficulties the PBOC faces if it wants to boost policy stimulus.” Between soaring food prices, which limit the PBOC’s ability to “shotgun” inflation higher by injecting a cool trillion in new debt here and there, and the yuan’s plunge past 7 per dollar, this has effectively tied the PBOC’s hands, and its ability to ease aggressively as the economy continues to slow.”

    This is not to pick up China because the same stagflation is coming to everyone but it is starting in China because China has been the global credit machine for a decade now.

  43. Davy on Fri, 9th Aug 2019 5:56 am 

    “Insect Apocalypse:” US Farmland 48 Times More Toxic To Insects Than 25 Years Ago”
    https://tinyurl.com/y5weoe7p zero hedge

    “A new study shows how “insect apocalypse” is unfolding across America’s farmland since neonicotinoid pesticides were introduced several decades ago. Researchers found that farmland across the country is 48 times more toxic to insect life than 25 years ago, and neonicotinoid pesticides account for a large majority of the increase in toxicity. “It is alarming that US agriculture has become so much more toxic to insect life in the past two decades,” said Kendra Klein, Ph.D., study co-author and senior staff scientist at Friends of the Earth. “We need to phase out neonicotinoid pesticides to protect bees and other insects that are critical to biodiversity and the farms that feed us.” Published in the journal PLOS ONE on Tuesday, the new study is a complete assessment of pesticide usage on farmland in the US, is the first study in the world to quantify how dangerous fields have become for insects by providing YoY changes in toxicity levels of the soil. The increased toxic load measured in the study could explain why insect populations are collapsing in the US.”

    “The study suggests neonicotinoids are a major factor in the recent decline of insects, along with climate change and habitat destruction, leading scientist to warn of an “insect apocalypse.” Insects, such as honey bees, are the world’s most important pollinator of food crops. It’s estimated that at least one-third of food consumed by humans relies on pollination mainly by bees, but also by other insects, birds, and bats. Neonicotinoid usage has been linked to honey-bee colony collapse disorder and loss of birds due to a decline in insect populations. Klein said neonicotinoid became popular with farmers during the mid-2000s, has contributed to the dramatic increase of toxic farmland. The study found imidacloprid and clothianidin, produced by Bayer, and thiamethoxam, a product of Syngenta-ChemChina were the three neonicotinoids that contributed to the increasing toxic load in farmlands. Last year, Europe banned three main neonicotinoids (clothianidin, imidacloprid, and thiamethoxam) for all farming activity. Several states in the US have also restricted farmers from using the chemicals, out of fear that it could further collapse the honey bee population.”

  44. Davy on Fri, 9th Aug 2019 5:57 am 

    We don’t have as many pesticides here in the Ozarks mainly because it is a cow calf rearing area. Cows are generally grass fed then they are shipped to feed lots out west. There is still a lot of spraying going on with broadleaf control herbicides. We definitely have a weed and invasive problem like everywhere. I still have good insect populations around my farm and good amphibian populations. I consider both indicator species. Yet, I have noticed declines here and there. One decline that has not hurt my feelings at all is mosquitos. I hardly ever see one now and that was not the case a few years ago. I am making a big effort to provide habitat to pollinators. I have some field that I let overgrow with invasives like thistle and other flowering weeds that normally farmers spray. This year we hardly had any fireflies. This may be more climate change related. We had a bad winter and spring with lots of temp fluctuations. It was very wet with lots of freezing and thawing. The farm’s bees are doing well enough. We have losses but this year there was a good recovery. I see a lot of other pollinators out there too.

  45. Davy on Fri, 9th Aug 2019 6:16 am 

    I thought I’d personally thank you guys that always attack me, those of you I haven’t run off yet.

    A big shout out to:

    nedernazi
    bobby
    billy
    annoy
    dumba
    derhound
    SLOB
    and all of the rest of you stupid dumbasses. There’s to many of you too list.

    You know who you are.

  46. Davy on Fri, 9th Aug 2019 6:20 am 

    “Bulgaria fails to halt spread of African swine fever”
    https://tinyurl.com/y6y8eryw Taipei times via rice farmer

    “Bulgaria has failed to contain the spread of African swine fever, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Yanko Ivanov said yesterday, amid concerns that the Black Sea nation could lose its entire 600,000 pig breeding industry. Bulgaria has so far detected more than 30 outbreaks of the disease at industrial or backyard farms, and about 130,000 pigs have already been culled. Experts say that the nation could lose its entire pig breeding industry and have its 600,000 pigs culled, while industry officials fear it could cause damages of up to 2 billion levs (US$1.14 billion). An outbreak of African swine fever in China is forecast to wipe out about one-third of Chinese pork production this year, or 18 million tonnes, twice the amount of pork exported worldwide every year. There have also been outbreaks in Vietnam, Cambodia, Mongolia, North Korea and Laos, and it has already spread across parts of central and eastern Europe. Last month Sofia announced measures to prevent the spread of the highly contagious disease and protect the pig-breeding industry in Bulgaria, where almost every household in rural areas keeps home-raised pigs. However, Ivanov said that the government has failed to prevent the spread of the virus, which has already hit more than a dozen districts. “What we failed to do was reduce the population of wild boar, which, unfortunately, has a fairly dense concentration in the areas with industrial farms,” Ivanov said.”

  47. makati1 on Fri, 9th Aug 2019 6:22 am 

    Davy, you hate China so don’t try to deny it. You are correct in that China saved the US in the 2008 disaster, but may not even try this time. Better to let the debtor country go down the shitter. If you think China is not prepared for the future, you are in deep denial.

    The Chinese have it all in hand, if you stay away from the US MSM propaganda brainwashing. They are still holding ALL the aces in this game while the US is holding the Joker. Or is the US run by the Joker?

    I just read an article where the US military is concerned, that, even if they can design new weapons like hypersonic missiles, there is no one in the US to make them in quantity. They need years to just build the means to manufacture what they may design.

    ““Our adversaries have clearly found ways to make them affordable. China has these things now by the thousands. What do we do to learn, once again, how to produce sophisticated things at scale and affordably?” he said.

    China is able to field new systems every few years, Griffin noted, while the U.S. takes a decade or more to get through a cumbersome acquisition process.”

    https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/smd/2019/08/08/hypersonics-by-the-dozens-us-industry-faces-manufacturing-challenge/

    So pathetic! So laughable!

  48. Davy on Fri, 9th Aug 2019 6:26 am 

    “Study of Massive Smoke Cloud From 2017 Wildfires Offers Terrifying Hint of How Even Small Nuclear War Would Escalate Climate Crises”
    https://tinyurl.com/y4e2jw3f common dreams via rice farmer

    “According to a new Rutgers University study published Thursday in Science Magazine, wildfires in British Columbia in August 2017 expelled so much smoke into the atmosphere that the pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud sat in the upper atmosphere for eight months. Soot in the cloud was heated by solar radiation and lifted the cloud higher into the sky, combining with the dry air in the north to keep the cloud aloft until the next spring.”

    “The study used the smoke from the wildfires as a model, but the scale of smoke in the atmosphere from an all out nuclear war would be orders of magnitude greater. The smoke cloud contained only about 0.3 million tons of soot, while a nuclear war between India and Pakistan could produce 15 million tons and a U.S. vs. Russia war could generate 150 million tons. Still, the scientists validated their previous theories and the climate model they’re using for ongoing research on nuclear war impacts by studying the wildfire, according to Robock.”

  49. Bad China on Fri, 9th Aug 2019 6:41 am 

    “This is not to pick up China because the same stagflation is coming to everyone but it is starting in China because China has been the global credit machine for a decade now”

    It started in the US a decade ago. China is the main reason why the US is not a third world country already, and China’s new plans for the future no longer include the US.

    So solly.

  50. Davy on Fri, 9th Aug 2019 6:45 am 

    “India’s coal-fired generation needs growing 22 percent by 2022”
    https://tinyurl.com/y42ntndr faster than expected

    “SNIP: India expects that its coal energy generation will grow by 22% by the end of 2022, putting climate change goals – just recently reported as being on-track – in severe jeopardy.”

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