A World On the Precipice: The Last Oil Tanker From the Strait of Hormuz has Arrived – Now What? - The Great Simplification

In this episode, Nate welcomes back petroleum geologist Art Berman to break down the timeline of the looming oil shortages stemming from the Strait of Hormuz crisis and just how severe they could become within a tightly coupled, complex global system.

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we rarely agree on anything anymore, but this needed to be said. i feel offended by the #energyblindness

#oil #energy #energycrisis

Part of our energy problem here in the US: you could toast a slice of bread over a small burning stick. Given there's a healthy enough forest nearby, these regenerate and you'd effectively never run out. However, most of us have an appliance that uses so much electric power it'd take an Olympic athlete feverishly running a manual generator for the duration of the toasting process to generate it. We're needlessly substituting an elite energy slave for a stick when we make toast because we can and because the structure of things encourages it.

#economics #degrowth #ElectricPower #EnergyBlindness

Av rein nysgjerrigheit gjorde eg eit nettsøk på "energiblindhet". Eg fekk nøyaktig fem treff, der dette låg øvst. Alle dei fem refererer til Nate Hagens som "coina" uttrykket (energy blindness). Skal bli interessant å sjå kor mange treff eg får om eitt, to, fem år. https://www.fjell-ljom.no/arnt-bukkvoll-baerekraft-drivstoff/vi-lider-av-energiblindhet/237667

#energiblindhet #EnergyBlindness

– Vi lider av energiblindhet

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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens - Mordor Economy | Frankly #23

Description This week, Nate walks through the path we are currently on en route to the Great Simplification - a path towards a “Mordor Economy”. Based on data from colleagues Art Berman and Carey King, Nate untangles the complex relationship between biology, GDP, and net energy. How is an economic metabolism based on a need for growth creating a pathway for increasing amounts of energy to be directed to the energy sector itself? Why hasn’t the rapid growth of renewables satiated our energy appetite? How is the use of credit masking the full energetic-cost of energy? Can we proactively take the necessary steps to reset the balance between energy efficiency and energy consumption to pass through Mordor unscathed and arrive at the Great Simplification? Watch this episode on Youtube Show Notes and Links to Learn More

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