Another very brief contemplation prompted by The Honest Sorcerer’s latest writing regarding our energy predicament. What you have described so well is perhaps the conundrum faced by every complex society throughout history: diminishing returns on investments in complexity. This phenomenon appears to apply to almost everything in the human realm…

This contemplation shares a response of mine to another within an ongoing discussion regarding a Facebook post by Clean Energy Canada[1] highlighting one of Canada’s major energy companies’ offshore wind farm projects. This ‘think tank’ out of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada works “…to accelerate Canada’s clean energy…

A short contemplation after reading Richard Heinberg’s latest article and the apparent paradox that is evident in the musings of a number of writers in the energy-ecology nexus. Non-Renewable Renewable Energy-Harvesting Technologies (NRREHT): A Paradox For Our Times? Paradox: “…having qualities that seem to be opposites” (Reference) In his latest…

Let me begin this contemplation by stating that I do not hate ‘renewables’ nor am I a fossil fuel industry shill (the two common accusations lobbed at me whenever I criticise the notion of a ‘green/clean’ energy future). I have constructed my family’s 3.35 kW solar photovoltaic system from the…

This contemplation is a ‘short’ comment I shared on an article by Martin Tye that showed up on my Medium feed and I read this morning. It asks an important question in whether the ‘action’ being called for by various groups/individuals to address climate issues are framed by an understanding…

Today’s contemplation is a quick rundown of three of the roadblocks I see preventing us from achieving the utopian dream of a seamless ‘clean’ energy transition from dirty fossil fuels, or at least one as marketed by the ruling caste and leveraged by many (most?) businesses to sell their products/services…

Today’s short piece is a comment I shared on an article by Nathan Surendran that highlights a debunking of the idea that energy can be decoupled from growth and thus reduce carbon emissions whilst supporting continued economic expansion. Nathan has a number of great articles to read on our energy…

A very brief contemplation that is a comment I posted on the Honest Sorcerer’s latest piece of writing. It’s pretty self-evident (at least to everyone outside of the hypnotic manipulation of US propaganda) that the American ruling caste cares little (if at all) for any other group of people or…

This contemplation has been prompted by another great article by The Honest Sorcerer. If you’ve not read their work, I highly recommend it. A couple of thoughts in reading your splendid piece (they always serve as a springboard for some reflection regarding my own thinking). First, I have to wonder…