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Peak Oil

What’s Peak Oil Got to Do With It? Go By Bike Episode 44

July 30, 2010

What is Peak Oil and what can we do about it? I had the opportunity recently to listen to a talk and discussion about peak oil and climate change here in our local town . The talk was interesting and a good presentation of the topic, but also interesting was the reactions of people in [...]

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Stop Drilling? or Stop Driving! – Go By Bike Episode 22

May 18, 2010

Environmentalists need to examine if their words and actions go together As the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the gulf continues to wreak environmental havoc, I’m sure the reaction from many environmentalists will be loud calls to stop drilling and curtail offshore oil drilling. This may be something we should do, but I wonder how [...]

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Why Electric Cars are NOT the Answer – Go By Bike Episode 14

May 3, 2010

Will electric cars solve our oil dependency problems? There’s a lot of hope and hype about electric cars, with just about every car company jumping on the promised future of these vehicles with a design of their own. But electric cars just don’t solve one fundamental problem of transportation by car. What problem is this? [...]

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To Maine on the train

August 23, 2009

Jim Kunstler is famous, or perhaps infamous is a better word, in the “peak oil” community for his prophecies of gloom and doom to be set upon the USA due to our profligacy and oil dependency. Kuntstler is a controversial figure, in part because he constantly predicts doom to beset us, and in part because [...]

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The state of things

July 4, 2009

It’s been a while since I posted to the Cycle 9 blog. The hiatus was in part due to a lot of grant writing that I had to do for my day job. There’s this thing called the “stimulus” that congress passed, and they are trying to stimulate scientific research. And so government agencies like [...]

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