LOL
Yes…in the same category as fairy dust.
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Drop Of Water Example…
is my all time favorite example of exponential growth. I can’t tell you how many people I have repeated this exercise to. The example easily allows the mind to compute the exponential growth function.
Thanks, Chris.
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“moving From Less Good To A More Better…”
Hilarious. Now we have to move from complicated to simple.
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Anecdote Here
So yesterday before I was ready for the day, we discovered the water pump had gone out and it would a couple of hours before the repair guy came. We had zero water saved or stored because it was an unexpected event.
So guess what? I just got a bucket and went out to my simple pump and pumped out my water for some morning hygiene.
Right when I was just about tuckered out … .that’s when the water started splurting out. It comes up about 135 feet.
Made me feel independent and resilient.
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Plan B…
Prepare for de-industrialization. I’m thinking basic goods like, food, clean water, fire makers, clothes, shoes, shelter, salvaged materials, medicine, pain killers, soaps, tooth care products, cleaning products.
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Insects
I live in Florida, so we still have lots of bugs here. It’s nothing like when I was a kid and the buggy windshields. I remember those windshields.
I’m seeing lots of insects in the garden. We have bees, hornets and wasps, butterflies, dragonflies, other kind of flies, all kinds of beetles, stink bugs, moths, and a massive population of lizards (that eat bugs). And mosquitos, but we did put in a bat house to help with the mosquitos.
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I think we should think of an economy as changing rather as in a perpetual growth model. Depending on time, place and circumstance, economies will change, grow, plateau, and then decline just like every other complex system. If we think of growth in terms of change rather than perpetual growth, then we could get a glimpse of what an economy would look like.
However, the type of money used would have a tremendous impact on what kind of economy we end up with or without the notion of exponential growth. If that future had bonafide money and we ditch fiat, then inflation will essentially go away. May still get some cycles, but I think those cycles would much more mild.
If we were in a plateaued grid down situation, I think that world looks very agricultural with a lean populace. Everyone would be growing some food and/or crops that offer other value such as hemp/flax/cotton crops for cloth, sails (for ships), paper, etc. The happy ending.
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Hey Westcoast Jan, I love that phrase “personal agility.” Yes goes well with resilient.
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Are the Love bugs still there in the summer?
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New Extremely Dense Power Source!
I just saw a presentation by Brilliant Light Power Inc that could put me out of a job (natural gas power plant) and end the energy crisis of peak oil. Please go take a look and see what you think! I am thinking about trying to invest in it…feels like a world changing tech!
https://youtu.be/05ltgeNx7es
Thanks for the info about how it works in real life… hoping to get one installed one day.
There is an Amish community in Southern Maryland. I used to drive by the area on my way to work. The young guys would always be along the side of the road peddling away on their bicycles. (bikes w/o gear shifts, BTW) Never saw a fat guy, ever.
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I’ve been tracking/squinting at these guys for a while.
It’s not necessary that I understand the physics, but I’m a bit uncomfortable they they wave over the physics without providing at least some sort of a means of addressing this question: “Where does the excess energy come from?”
Is it loss of mass?
But the explanation given, that hydrogen gives up its electrons to a catalyst, but then gain a new pair at a lower orbital (and highly energized “hydrino” state) because it’s in a plasma state…I don’t get it.
Where did the energy come from? Is it being sucked out of the vacuum of space? Does it steal from a nearby wormhole by opening a 5th dimension portal?
In the universe I currently inhabit (which does not mean jack, someday humans will unlock the other mysteries unless we kill ourselves first) energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
It’s a pretty rock-solid law.
So the extraordinary claim that this law has been violated needs to come with some extraordinary evidence, which I have yet to see.
So I remain hopeful…but I squint.
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Thanks so much for your investigative prowess!
It’s definitely easy to get excited about the possibilities, but until the physics of it is revealed, I suppose we’re just taking their word for it regarding what energy was produced for a given input during their testing.
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Yes.
And it also comes down to the Energy Returned on Energy Invested [EROEI] or just EROI. Most proposed substitutions to fossil fuels don’t meet that requirement.
Also another key fact is electrical energy, even if it can be created with high EROI [nuclear does this but at tremendous cost of tens of billions invested…so it isn’t cost effective], doesn’t solve the fact that our world runs on liquid fuels. Personal vehicles [there aren’t enough resources to replace all internal combustion vehicles with electric, and the grid can’t handle it], trucks, ships, aircraft, trains, mining equipment, etc. run on liquid fuels.
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Chris, it’s 100% fueled by renewable Snake Oil. As long as it’s plugged into his mom’s house, it will run for free.
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Banks Are Like Baby Hitler
Let’s imagine
Hitler as a child was spoiled and on his way to becoming a socialpath. ( like the Banks)
Hitlers parents see the trend and decide for his sake and the sake of the world they would start giving him some limits and discipline. (fed raising rates)
Child Hitler throws fits, and imbarases his parents. (banks complain and fail)
His parents decide it is not worth the effort and inspite of the forcasted doom and gloom that would result from an adult Hitler, they give in and spoil him again. (just as his chracter was beginning to change). this is the FED quantitative easing and lowering rates. The “big” players/banks are being annoyed by their losses and are pressuring the fed to give in.
Who will win? Will the fed hold the line for the good of the Nation, or cave to quiet the banks and avoid a little embarasment. The moral choice is obvious, but in a world where self centered curuption abounds, I doubt the moral choice will be selected.
not only that Chris, but they’ve been around long enough that you’d think they’d have something by now…at least a real pilot case… UNLIKE the micro-nuclear reactor system that Bill Gates is fronting and is now starting construction on their first installation in Wyoming.
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Mining Solar System
Yes the earth has finite energy resources but why not start mining planets near us in our solar system to continue the current resource expansion / debt based financial/ control system?
Seems progress into space expansion has largely been halted by the current global money / control system. Wonder why the “bankers” would not use the infinite money creation power that they have to push for that? This may allow their control system to grow (and save the species in the process) rather then trying to use the environmental constraints of the earth as the new guise to tighten their global level consolidation of power?