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There seems to be a consensus that the depletion of fossil fuels will follow a fairly impressive slope.

The End Of Electricity | Energy Bulletin

You know you're living in a chaotic situation when (1) the mainstream media are constantly surprised by what is happening; (2) short-term predictions by various pundits go in radically different directions and are stated with many reserves; (3) the Establishment dares to say things or use words that were previously taboo; (4) ordinary people are frightened and angry but very unsure what to do. This is a good description of the past two years throughout the world, or at least in most parts of the world. Consider the recent enormous "surprises" - the election of a Republican senator in Massachusetts; the financial collapse of Dubai; the near bankruptcy of various large states within the United States and four or five of the member states of the European Union; severe world currency fluctuations.

Chaos as an everyday thing | Energy Bulletin

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Helpful in understanding trends is an honest assessment of alternative energy, in terms of potential for a given population size and number of decades usage. This oil-exploration/extraction fact should tell anyone that the peak of global oil production, and the even greater historical impact of the peak, is nigh if not upon us. This article is a good balloon-buster of the usual technofixes, but then it offers its own technofix of gasification at power plants, as an example of "bridge technologies."

http://www.culturechange.org/fall_of_petroleum_civilization.html

The Fall of Petroleum Civilization - peak oil

Thinking in straight lines | Energy Bulletin

Let’s face it, we, the civilized, educated, enlightened part of humanity like things to be straight. Let primitive tribesmen live in picturesque and practical round huts—we require abstract boxes of steel and concrete clad in plate glass, with plenty of nice straight lines, true vertical and horizontal planar surfaces and lots of ninety-degree angles to please the eye.