Archive for March, 2019

The Industrial Economy is Ending Forever: an Energy Explanation for Agriculturists and Everyone

Saturday, March 30th, 2019

Nothing happens without energy. Howard T. Odum created a framework of energy flow, conversion, storages and feedback that built systems ecology into a general systems theory. That provided ecosystem science with a rigorous disciplinary basis. Odum and his intellectual progeny see that understanding how energy makes everything happen is so important, not only for the [...]

Wind and solar – societal and residential

Friday, March 15th, 2019

I hasten to preface these brief results of my experiments with a residential solar electric system by stating that in accord with what I think is a rising consensus, in my view these energy sources will never significantly replace fossil energy consumption at a societal level. Hence, as fossil energy depletion continues, becoming ever scarcer, [...]