Tag Archives: Energy

The “undulating plateau”

Posted on March 31, 2010 by richlyon

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.

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Arithmetic, Population & Energy

Posted on November 30, 2009 by richlyon

Society, as we have constructed it, cannot function without an exponentially growing energy supply. Dr. Albert A. Bartlett, using nothing more than high school maths, demonstrates just how impractical this is.

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