UK energy flows 2012
October 28, 2013, 06:42
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: energy, energy flows, joules, mears, sankey diagram, tonnes
Gotta love the Sankey Diagram.
via: UK energy flows 2012 | Energy Matters
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Timmy Duggan’s Nationals Power
June 3, 2012, 22:47
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Lotta Joules for a Timmy.
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Via Velonews:
Continued Economic Growth: Boiling Temp in 400 Years
April 12, 2012, 05:00
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Or, My Dinner With Andre the Giant Economist.
Another fun bit from Tom Murphy. Shades of Plato’s Republic.
…The upshot is that at a 2.3% growth rate (conveniently chosen to represent a 10× increase every century), we would reach boiling temperature in about 400 years. [Pained expression from economist.]
via Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist | Do the Math.
The economist says he believes that energy will become “arbitrarily cheap” in the future, before realizing how stupid that is.
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