Tuesday 10 January 2012

What is your energy descent plan?

You may see a little more of this coming over the coming months (posting of special interest pieces) as I believe there are brighter people then me that can talk clearly, passionately and in some cases humourously about energy descent. I encourage you all to follow regularly some of the blogsites listed at the sides of my blog, but if i find some pearl, it'll be posted here too.

"Right now, global food supply is largely sustained through oil-powered “green revolution” technology. In the US, we spend 9 calories of petrochemical energy per food calorie which we consume. In Bangladesh, about 1/2 calorie of human and animal energy goes into producing each calorie of food energy consumed. The petro-energy has meant that we get by with very little human and animal energy. In our equation, it is treated as negligible. A lot of the energy devoted to the calories we eat comes from our cars, refrigerators and cooking devices. Also, we are wasteful of this energetically expensive food. If you throw out half of what you cook, after leaving it sitting in the fridge, you doubly worsen your calorific efficiency." - John Day

http://guymcpherson.com/2012/01/personal-choices-in-uncertain-times/

Time to get tooled up?

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