Peak Energy & Resources, Climate Change, and the Preservation of Knowledge

  Preface.  This is a book review of Ehrman’s 2023) Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End. I thought this book was both profound and interesting. I have been trying for years t...

https://energyskeptic.com/2024/the-biblical-revelations-critical-thinking-and-how-this-affects-us-today/

Preface. It is very hard to find anything on the U.S. military or governments awareness of nuclear winter. So far the only other information I’ve found on this is from 2023 Risk Analysis method...

https://energyskeptic.com/2024/why-nuclear-powers-are-ignoring-nuclear-winter/

Source: Ballout, D. 2013. Choke Points: Our energy access points. Oil Change. Preface. Below are several articles I’ve collected since 2005 on oil chokepoints. If oil tanker traffic were stoppe...

https://energyskeptic.com/2024/oil-choke-points/

  Geoscientists Can Help Reduce the Threat of Nuclear Weapons Preface.  This contains excerpts from a post by two of the leading nuclear winter scientists and is a good summary of the situation...

https://energyskeptic.com/2024/nuclear-weapons-must-be-reduced-or-we-risk-nuclear-winter/

Source: Khan A (2021) Nuclear fusion: building a star on Earth is hard, which is why we need better materials. The Conversation. Preface.  Of all the hundreds of obstacles fusion has yet to over...

https://energyskeptic.com/2024/fusion-may-never-happen-due-to-lack-of-tritium/

Preface. When I first published this post in February of 2022, I said that peak world oil production might have arrived, but it takes 5 years in the rear-view mirror to call it.  Now peak “cru...

https://energyskeptic.com/2024/failing-oil-and-gas-companies-a-sign-of-peak-oil/

Preface: By far the largest renewable energy resource used in Europe is wood. In its various forms, from sticks to pellets to sawdust, wood (or to use its fashionable name, biomass) accounts forh...

https://energyskeptic.com/2024/wood-the-fuel-of-preindustrial-societies-is-half-of-eu-renewable-energy/

Preface. These are updates to Ward & Brownlee’s book “Rare Earth: Why Complex life is Uncommon in the Universe”. If we are one of the few planets with intelligent life, what a shame it woul...

https://energyskeptic.com/2024/rare-earth-updates-the-latest-research-on-why-complex-intelligent-life-is-likely-rare-in-the-universe/

Major semiconductor producing countries rely on each other for different types of chips. Top semiconductor producers’ 2021 export values by source and destination, billions USD.  Source: PIIE ...

https://energyskeptic.com/2024/book-review-of-chip-war-and-the-fragility-of-microchips/

One minute on the internet around the world. Source Infographic by @LoriLewas and @officiallyChad, 2020. Preface.  This is a book review of Pitron’s “The Dark Cloud”. Of note is the huge a...

https://energyskeptic.com/2024/the-tremendous-material-and-energy-toll-of-the-digital-economy/