tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post8958261488345044145..comments2024-03-18T03:27:18.777-04:00Comments on Rabett Run: Eli Is Not A GeoEngineer But . . .EliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-73905196770165319782013-01-27T15:14:23.312-05:002013-01-27T15:14:23.312-05:00Horation:
"There's also a graph."
...Horation:<br /><br />"There's also a graph."<br /><br />Needs some error barsMal Adaptedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06123525780458234978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-63916577967898409832013-01-26T10:25:39.225-05:002013-01-26T10:25:39.225-05:00"Geoengineering"
-- by Horatio Algeranon..."Geoengineering"<br />-- by Horatio Algeranon<br /><br />While geoengineering<br />To some, may sound endearing,<br />It <i>might</i> produce Macbeth,<br />The "Great Blue Screen of Death".<br /><br />And most unfortunately,<br />Unlike the home PC,<br />When Earth has been polluted<br />It <i>can't</i> just be rebooted.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-19839603855569235302013-01-25T12:37:09.821-05:002013-01-25T12:37:09.821-05:00"Hexponential Growth"
-- by Horatio Alge..."Hexponential Growth"<br />-- by Horatio Algeranon<br /><br />Economics is absurd<br />Mathturbation of the herd<br />Growth eternal <br />Is infernal<br />Hexponential, in a wordAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-15258415653406366222013-01-25T07:39:31.688-05:002013-01-25T07:39:31.688-05:00"Economic growth and growth in energy usage a..."Economic growth and growth in energy usage are not the same thing."<br /><br /><br />Growth in energy usage and life expectancy is more to the point .THE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-29494031025627339192013-01-25T07:02:35.512-05:002013-01-25T07:02:35.512-05:00good blogging but still u have a long way to go good blogging but still u have a long way to go Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-58861109638480675142013-01-25T07:01:12.015-05:002013-01-25T07:01:12.015-05:00hmm nyc 1hmm nyc 1Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09985882413444921040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-57037968427539458382013-01-24T22:28:27.764-05:002013-01-24T22:28:27.764-05:00Economic growth and growth in energy usage are not...Economic growth and growth in energy usage are not the same thing.<br /><br />I guess it would be if the composition of goods and services consumed and produced remains constant and technology never changes.<br /><br />But that's not the case.<br />Gaznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-85724414913562761232013-01-24T21:49:52.657-05:002013-01-24T21:49:52.657-05:00The Pome's great, but that graph is truly a co...The Pome's great, but that graph is truly a corker, Horatio!billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-49602777299639603542013-01-24T11:20:49.132-05:002013-01-24T11:20:49.132-05:00Human stupidity (of which mainstream economics an ...Human stupidity (of which mainstream economics an important subclass) is also exponential<br /><br />"It's the stupid trend"<br />-- by Horatio Algeranon<br /><br />The "Stupid Trend"<br />Is without end<br />It even has an upward bend.<br /><br />“The globe has cooled<br />So don’t be fooled<br />Jim Hansen has been over-ruled”<br /><br />“The ice is back<br />There is no lack<br />The latter is a simple fact”<br /><br />“The HCN <br />Is at it again<br />In bed with all of Hansen’s men.”<br /><br />The stupid claims<br />From the usual names<br />Might seem no more than silly games<br /><br />But don't pretend<br />The "Stupid Trend"<br />Is really aught, but means to an end.<br /><br />There's also a <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kfG8pUItVjU/TREHT7rYj0I/AAAAAAAABEs/__K72zIbZiA/s1600/StupidTrend.JPG" rel="nofollow">graph.</a><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-41810120488466669062013-01-24T06:32:11.578-05:002013-01-24T06:32:11.578-05:00Very interesting blog post by Tom Murphy of UCSD o...Very interesting blog post by Tom Murphy of UCSD on what physically happens to Earth if economic growth continues at 2.3%, with some good comments BTL.<br /><br /><a href="http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/" rel="nofollow">Galactic-Scale Energy</a><br /><br /><i>"No matter what the technology, a sustained 2.3% energy growth rate would require us to produce as much energy as the entire sun within 1400 years. A word of warning: that power plant is going to run a little warm. Thermodynamics require that if we generated sun-comparable power on Earth, the surface of the Earth—being smaller than that of the sun—would have to be hotter than the surface of the sun!"</i><br /><br />J Bowersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-22596347805829620902013-01-24T01:50:51.325-05:002013-01-24T01:50:51.325-05:00Well color me stoopid, that is why they call me &q...Well color me stoopid, that is why they call me "Hey Stoopid".<br /><br />Cui bono.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-44056713432923098242013-01-24T01:01:38.811-05:002013-01-24T01:01:38.811-05:00I have my doubts about the utility of this.I have my doubts about the utility of this.David B. Bensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02917182411282836875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-38515729667039457162013-01-23T08:05:32.060-05:002013-01-23T08:05:32.060-05:00Building efficiency:
MIT's network is very dr...<i>Building efficiency:</i><br /><br />MIT's network is very drafty -- basically a wind tunnel.<br /><br />Since they obviously are very upset about "too much" of their heat( JSTOR knowledge) leaking out, perhaps they should do something (anything) to actually "weather seal" their network (login, password protection, locked utility closets, etc).<br /><br />Threats of fifty year prison terms for the "heat crooks"* might be great to discourage future "heat theft", but once the "heat" is gone, it can be very hard to get it back (Second Law of Prosecutor Dynamics).<br /><br />~@:><br /><br />*you know, the homeless guy warming himself around the fire you built in the trash barrel out in the open. "Throw the barrel at him, Danno"<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com