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The “undulating plateau”
The idea that energy descent will be preceded by a series matching falls and recoveries does not fit well with our intuitive sense of how complex things work.
Continue readingA smaller world
Leading Canadian economist, Jeff Rubin, sets out the premise of his book “Why your World is about to get a whole lot smaller” in this 45 minute video from 2009′s The Business of Climate Change Conference. We aren’t running out … Continue reading
Why carbon capture won’t fly
Carbon capture is the process of removing C02 from the exhaust fumes of power stations and storing them somewhere to prevent their release into the atmosphere. The UK is about to lose 22GW (40% of production capacity)[1]. It’s easy to work out how much extra capacity we will have to build to provide carbon capture for the replacement power stations.
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